A 12-year-old boy was shot and killed Thursday night in New York City as he sat in a parked car with an injured young woman and an unharmed girl.
“Appalling incident”
Law enforcement was called to reports of shots fired in the Brooklyn neighborhood shortly before 8 p.m. When they arrived at the scene, they found that in a car “in the passenger seat, there was a 12-year-old boy who had been shot multiple times”. “He died on the spot,” said the policeman, speaking of a “terrible incident”.
He added that a 20-year-old woman, sitting in the driver’s seat, had also been shot several times, was taken to hospital for surgery and “expected to survive”. Finally, an eight-year-old girl in the back seat was unharmed.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the victims had parked their car to buy food when “shots were fired which went through the vehicle”, underlined Michael Kemper, inspector of the New York police ( NYPD) but without saying whether the victims had been targeted or had been hit by stray bullets.
As long as we have guns, we’ll keep having crime scenes like this
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams, an African-American former police officer, wondered, “What happens to people sitting in their cars and being shot? When are we going to stop fighting for the innocents in this town? “.
The Democratic mayor took office in January on an agenda to tackle crime, recidivism and the illegal spread of guns in New York, a megacity of nearly nine million people whose crime statistics , particularly by firearms, have risen sharply since 2020.
“As long as we have firearms in a system that encourages recidivism, we will continue to have crime scenes like this,” said Eric Adams.
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