NYPD searching for 3 men in East Harlem shooting that killed 69-year-old woman
Police said Thursday they were looking for three men in connection with a shooting that
Robin Wright was fatally shot on East 110th Street and Madison Avenue around 12:30 p.m., NYPD officials said. She was walking back to her building after getting Chinese food down the block, according to her friend Juanita Arnold, who was with Wright when she was struck.
Officials described the suspects as three men in dark hoodies and black face masks. One was wearing gray sweatpants, another was wearing white sneakers and a third was wearing black-and-red sneakers, police said.
The NYPD said early Thursday detectives were still investigating who opened fire and why.
“We saw guys running from this direction to that direction … six or seven gunshots went off,” Arnold said in the shooting’s aftermath Wednesday. “I was standing right with her. I turned around, she was on the ground.”
Wright lived in NYCHA’s Lehman Village development on Madison Avenue between East 110th and 109th streets, just a block from Central Park, according to police.
At the crime scene Wednesday, some of her neighbors gestured toward her abandoned walker, surrounded by a pool of blood on the sidewalk, and said one of them could have been killed by the gunfire instead.
“It makes me nervous,” Jo Ann Canty, vice president of the Lehman Village tenant association, said. “The summer was kind of quiet, but now it’s starting back up again. It wasn’t like this years ago.”
She said city officials needed to do more to get guns off the street. Mayor Eric Adams’ administration
Wright was shot a short walk from where
Shootings in the
This is a developing story based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.
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