Police: Fatal victims of shooting at New York party were not intended targets

Police in Rochester, New York say two people died and others were wounded by gunfire at a backyard party early on Saturday (Tina MacIntyre-Yee/Democrat & Chronicle/AP)

Two people who died at a party in New York state were not the intended targets of a shooting, police have said.

Fourteen other people were injured in the incident, which comes after unrest in the city of Rochester following the suffocation death of Daniel Prude while he was arrested by police.