13-year-old shot and injured in East Harlem, police looking for man who fled scene
A 13-year-old boy was injured in a shooting at an East Harlem public housing development across the street from an NYPD precinct stationhouse Thursday, police said.
Authorities said the shooting happened around 4:10 p.m. at NYCHA’s George Washington Houses on East 102nd Street and Third Avenue near the 23rd Precinct headquarters. Police said the teen was hit in his left shoulder and first responders took him to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, where he was in stable condition.
The NYPD was still investigating a motive for the shooting. Officials said they were looking for a man in a black shirt and black mask who fled in an unknown direction.
The boy is the second 13-year-old injured by gunfire in New York City in the past two weeks. Sanjay Samuel was shot in his head outside a Dunkin’ store in Queens on his way to school on Sept. 22 and
A coalition of nonprofit organizations, law enforcement officials and community leaders have been
Still, the area has recorded several high-profile incidents in recent months, with many of them involving young people. An NYPD officer
Calhoun’s lawyer Yusuf Abdul-Wahab Elashmawy said the evidence “clearly” shows his client was trying to “avoid and deescalate the situation.”
“The greater focus needs to be on the guns that all levels of government have failed to regulate and control — specifically, the illegal guns that are trafficked from more lax states,” Elashmawy said Friday.
In early September, 18-year-old Faisil McCants
This is a developing story based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.
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