NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn man accused of killing an 86-year-old man and wounding three others in a series of shootings while scootering through New York City faces charges of murder and attempted murder. police reported on Sunday.
In all, there were six seemingly random shootings in Brooklyn and Queens on Saturday, according to police.
The motive of the alleged shooter, identified Sunday as 25-year-old Thomas Abreu, remains unknown, police said.
Police officers arrested Abreu without further incident on Saturday. The New York Police Department released a video image of the shooter and sent it to officers, who found him a couple of hours after the first shooting, police said.
Police confiscated a scooter and a 9-millimeter pistol with an extended magazine. Abreu was charged with murder, two counts of attempted murder and six counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
The attacks began around 11:10 a.m., when the suspect shot a 21-year-old man in Brooklyn in the shoulder. The injured man was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive, according to police.
Shortly thereafter, Abreu apparently shot Hamoo Saeidi, 86, of Queens, in the Richmond Hill area of the borough of Queens. He later died at a hospital.
Later, in Queens, witnesses reported that a man on a scooter fired randomly at a group of people, although no one was injured.
Eight minutes later, a 44-year-old man was shot in the face. He was in critical condition at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
About a minute later, a 63-year-old man was shot in the torso. He was in stable condition at a hospital.
Police reported a sixth related shooting on a street corner in Queens on Sunday. A 40-year-old man was uninjured after being shot at.
Murders in America’s most populous city have risen in recent years to about the level where they were a decade ago, but well below the peak of the early 1990s. New York City during the pandemic and it remains stubbornly high. The city has also faced a series of high-profile crimes.
Mayor Eric Adams, a former New York City police captain, has stressed the importance of getting guns off the streets.
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2023-07-10 01:47:56
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