Gunfire erupted overnight in Harlem, resulting in the shooting of nine people, one of them fatally.
Police say that seven men and two women were struck in the hail of bullets at Fifth Avenue and East 139th Street just after 12:35 a.m. Monday. The incident occurred as the victims were enjoying their night out on the streets.
“I was sitting in my living room and all I heard was sporadic shots ringing,” one witness told Eyewitness News. “It was like, ‘Prong, prong, prong!’. And then it stopped and picked back up, ‘Brum, brum!’ You know, it was so many shots. First I thought it was fireworks. And then I thought, ‘Nah, it can’t be.'”
A 21-year-old died from injuries sustained from a bullet wound, while the other eight victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Police said they recovered a gun but did not reveal what prompted the outburst of violence.
“The emboldened individuals responsible for this are exactly who our officers are battling every day to make our city safe. And while we’re making some headway against violence we have a lot of work to do, but we need help alongside the entire criminal justice system,” said NYC Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell.
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And they are celebrating freeing the slaves!!!!
Enslaving all us normal Americans.
The recovered gun wasn’t one of those monstrous assault rifles with a 300 round magazine. Nor was it a so-called “ghost gun”. It was probably a stolen gun. No new laws will prevent shootings with stolen guns. Anyway, murder and attempted murder was already illegal.
Happy Juneteenth day!
UNELECTED privileged white woke Karen, Kathy Hochul, is doing all she can to reign in heinous crimes within the black community………….. by making sure every woman in this country can come into NY State to murder their baby and have the dumb stupid gullible taxpayers fund it.
Well, that can’t be right. there are such strict gun laws in new york. In any case, how many AR15 assault rifles were involved in this one?
Is it wrong to presume that the shooter/s looked like Travon Martin or Obama’s son?
A nice way up kick off Juneteenth festivities!!! This shooting will probably be outdone by shootings at the annual Labor Day Parade along Eastern Parkway.
Letting the animals out of their cages is good for population control, even better than the Fau-Xi Virus.
This was NOT a “mass shooting”. Not only because the definition of that is one that kills at least four people, not including the shooter, but also because it seems there wasn’t one shooter. This looks like an exchange of fire, i.e. a gang shootout. Such as happens regularly in Chicago and nobody seems to care.
Let’s pass new laws to make sure that this can’t happen again, oh, those laws already exist in NYC? Oops
Well anyway, let’s copy those laws federally since they work so well here
@ish hashalom its good you’re being the racist one. cuz im afraid to be so open about my racist views.
i taught a biracial kid this year. hes half black half sefardi and it was torture. i was always afraid that i didnt love him as i loved the others.