A man was shot and injured by New York City police on Sunday after shooting into crowds gathered for a Christmas carol concert outside a city church.
No information on possible injuries was given after the shooting. Witnesses did not report any casualties. A spokeswoman for the New York Police Department said officers used their guns after the man began shooting.
“He is seriously injured“, she told AFP.
An AFP reporter who witnessed the scene reported that the man fired outside St John the Divine Church in Manhattan as a few hundred people began to disperse after the chanting ended.
“Take me down, kill me!”
“I heard two or three detonations“, did she say. “I looked up and maybe ten meters from me on the steps there was a guy pulling“, did she say.
“I saw the flames coming out of the cannon, I started to run, to save my skin“.
Martha Stolley, another witness, estimated that the man fired eight or ten times before he was shot by police.
“He was shooting without aiming“, she told AFP, adding that the man was screaming”Take me down, kill me!“.
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