Washington (US): At least 9 people were shot over a span of several hours in four New York City boroughs which also led to the death of a woman in Brooklyn, New York Post reported on Friday.
The incident started around noon in the Mitchel Houses at 360 E. 137th St. in the Bronx when a 20-year-old was shot in the right leg, police said.
The victim is a known member of a subset of the Crips gang. He was taken to Lincoln Hospital and was said to be in a stable condition.
Next a woman was struck multiple times throughout her body at 445 Pulaski Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said.A 63-year-old man who was with her was shot once in the back, according to police. He was known to the department.
This was followed by the police taking a 47-year-old man into custody in connection with the shooting, police said. His identity wasn%E2%80%99t immediately released.
Around the same time, a 21-year-old man was shot once in the arm at the Sotomayor Houses at 1725 Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx. He was taken to Jacobi Medical Center.
Then, at around 2:45 p.m. in Upper Manhattan, a 23-year-old man was shot once in the left torso, who told the police that he was standing at West 142nd Street and Edgecombe Avenue when three men on scooters approached and started shooting, according to police.
He was taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition. There were no arrests in this case.Next 33-year-old man was shot at around 2:48 p.m. at the Ravenswood Houses at 35-27 12th Street in Queens, cops said. He was grazed in the left ear and taken to Mt. Sinai.
He told cops he was walking, heard shots and felt pain.Just before 6 p.m., a man was shot in the Morrisania Houses at 3125 Park Avenue in the Bronx, cops said. HIs age and other details weren%E2%80%99t available, cops said.
Roughly 45 minutes later, a 43-year-old man was shot outside 1152 Elton Street near Egan Street in East New York in Brooklyn, police said. He was taken to Brookdale University hospital in stable condition. (UNI)
