2023-07-09 00:59:12
A man riding a scooter with a gun has shot four people in the New York neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens, in the United States, killing an elderly man and leaving three others injured before being arrested.
The 25-year-old shooter was between Ashford avenue and Arlington avenue, in the east of the city, when has moved behind a 21-year-old man and shot him in the shoulderas explained by the deputy chief of detectives Joe Kenny and has collected the newspaper ‘New York Post’.
Some 17 minutes later, at 11:27 a.m. (local time), the shooter has fired a bullet into the back of an 87-year-old Asian man, on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, who has had to be rushed to a nearby hospital, but they have not been able to save him.
Just about eight minutes later, another man, 44, has been shot in the face at 11:35 a.m. and had to be transferred to the hospital in serious condition with the bullet lodged in his cheek.
Finally, at 11:37 a.m., a 63-year-old Hispanic man was shot in the shoulder and is in stable condition.
The shooter, whom a police source has described as “extremely emotionally disturbed”, was arrested around 1:10 p.m. with charges still pending.
“Our hearts go out to all the families affected by this senseless violence,” Acting Police Commissioner Eddie Caban said at a news conference.
Caban added that the shooter was traveling on an “illegal scooter that did not have a license plate to move from one location to another” and that “despite the difficulties this presented, our investigators were able to obtain video of the shooter” which was sent “to every NYPD officer’s smartphone using what’s called a critical message.”
A police source consulted by the aforementioned medium has reported that the first police officer who saw the shooter on his scooter chased him but lost him. A second officer tried to chase the shooter in his vehicle.but it turned into a foot chase, when the gunman apparently dumped the scooter, where they found the gun.
“It was a ghost weapon,” the source explained.since it did not have a serial number or was registered and witnesses have assured that the detainee was driving on the sidewalk and shooting randomly with it.
“We were inside and we heard three shots, pum, pum, pum, one after the other”has described the owner of a local store that has added that “I looked outside but I did not see it. People said that he was on a motorcycle on the sidewalk shooting randomly. People were screaming and running,” he concluded.
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