ASBURY PARK PRESS APP.COM $1.00 FRIDAY 07.24.15 Go sky-high on a hot air balloon ride Make your summer soar with a visit to the New Jersey Festival of Ballooning, the largest summertime hot air balloon and music festival in North America. See Nicki Minaj in Holmdel The singer brings her Pinkprint Tour to the PNC Bank Arts Center. Baseball, Bruce in Lakewood It’s Springsteen appreciat ion night at the BlueClaws. beachedition YOUR WEEKEND GUIDE DOWN THE SHORE HOW VULNERABLE IS YOUR CAR TO HACKERS? PAGE 1B LONG BRANCH — Sixteen-year -old Daryl was stand- ing on the footpath in front of his multi-family home when he heard what he thought were firecrackers com- ing out of the darkness all around him. He soon learned that it w asn’t firecr ackers — it was gunshots. A barrage of bullets sprayed Coleman Ave- nue, which still was teeming with small children play- ing in their yards when the shots rang out about 9 p.m. Wednesday , wounding three men. One remains hospi- talized. “Honestly , I didn’t see a body until (others) pointed it out,” said Daryl, whose last name is being withheld. ing around the crime scene Wednesday night, with some officers carrying automatic weapons. At least 18 evidence markers were placed at the scene, many ap- pearing to identify shell casings. April Woods, an Elberon First Aid Squad member, said the man left wounded on the street suffered two gunshot wounds to his back but was alert and conscious at the scene. The Long Branch man was taken to an un- disclosed local hospital, where he was listed in stable condition, Webster said. Woods, 36, who also is a full-time emergency med- ical technician, lives just around the block from the shooting and was among the first to respond to the scene. “I was in my house,” Woods said. “We heard gunshots GUNSHOTS JOLT NEIGHBORHOOD Police seek clues in shooting that left three men injured in Long Branch as children played on street THOMAS P. COSTELLO/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER A Long Branch police officer speaks with a witness on Coleman Avenue late Wednesday evening following a shooting that injured three people. ERIK LARSEN AND STEPH SOLIS @ERIK_LARSEN AND @STEPHMSOLIS LAKEWOOD — Nearly 11 ,000 children attending pub- lic and private schools will be without free busing in the coming school year, the school district announced Thursday. The dramatic move affects an estimated 8,400 pri- vate school students and 2,400 public school students who in prior years would have qualified for courtesy , or nonmandatory, busing, under the district’s busing guidelines. But times have changed. The district is now under the supervision of a state-appointed monitor, Michael Azzara, who made the decision to cancel the courtesy busing program in the face of a transportation budget shortfall of $8.3 million. Azzara’ s decision com es after recent negotiations with leaders of the township’s privat e Orthodox Jew- ish religious schools failed to either resuscitat e plans to stagger the private schools’ start and dismissal times or find another affordable alternative, he said. The change will leave 53 percent of all public school students without busing for next year , the dis- trict said. That means a huge headache for thousands of parents who will have to scramble to find ways to get their children to school safely — and potentially 1 1 ,000 kids lose busing Lake wood monitor cancels courtesy transpor tation SHANNON MULLEN @M ULLENAPP See BUSING, Page 8A