A 45-year-old man was shot to death Sunday night in a train car New York subway when he was trying to appease two passengers that they were arguing because one of them was listening to loud music, the police confirmed this Monday.
The victim, Richard Henderson, arrived dead at the hospital after being shot several times in the back and in the shoulder, shortly after 8:00 p.m. local time, the police confirmed in a statement sent to the AFP.
Until now the security forces They have not made any arrests Nor do they specify whether the target of the shots was the victim or another passenger.
This is one of the most recent episodes of violence in the old and extensive New York subway, the largest rail transportation system in the country and one of the largest in the world, which used daily by more than 5 million people.
Relatives of the victim told CBS New York television that Henderson was returning home after watching a football game with a friend. The man He leaves a wife, three children and two grandchildren.
New York subway accidents are frequent
Incidents like this occur with some frequency in the subway, despite to the police presence and the eviction of people with mental disorders in imbalance in the last year, as a result of passengers who have been attacked and pushed onto the tracks.
In November, two people were also slightly wounded by gunshots on the subway in Brooklyn.
In so far this year, there have been two derailments -one with 26 injured-, and last week a teenager died while riding on the roof of the cars, in a practice known as “subway surfing”.
Last October, the man who in April 2022 opened fire in a subway car during rush hour, also in Brooklyn, was sentenced to 10 life sentences. an attack that left 29 people injured and miraculously no deaths.
According to the newspaper The New York Timeslast year about 1,100 people were shot in the city of 8.5 million people, about 400 fewer than the previous year.
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2024-01-16 00:21:09
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