An innocent victim who was in the wrong place during a shooting. Such is the case of a taxi driver who is now struggling to recover after being shot in the head.
“I am a taxi driver and sometimes I see a lot of risk with my colleagues,” says a resident of the neighborhood.
According to police reports, on Saturday night, a 15-year-old boy was at the intersection of 131st Street and Frederick Douglas Blvd., in Harlem, when a silver vehicle approached to shoot. And after being shot in the abdomen, the young man attacked with a gun firing at the vehicle, but the 34-year-old individual who was driving a taxi was injured.
“Unfortunately. And they will continue to happen until the police are empowered as before, we will be worse every day,” says the same neighbor.
The taxi driver was transported to St. Luke’s Mount Sinai Hospital where he is in critical condition. While the fifteen-year-old was transported to the Columbia Medical Center and in stable condition.
Some residents say that there are more and more incidents of gun violence in the area: “Yes, a lot more things are happening around here in this area.”
While for these parents the level of violence to which their children have been exposed lately is worrying and they ask for more security: “One worries about the children who are also growing up and we don’t want them to see this, of those accidents. Sometimes a shooting around here, over there, over here. “
And in the opinion of Concepción Cuautle, who is also a family mother: “Not all police officers, but some exceed their authority but we have to respect it. And they have to give them that authority again because they took away their authority and that is why people he is doing what he wants: robberies, assaults, beatings, we are no longer safe anywhere. “
At the moment the minor is in police custody and the authorities are working to clarify the facts.
– .
