Police were called to shots fired in the Brooklyn borough of New York City shortly before 8 p.m. (local time) Thursday. When they arrived, a car was parked in a street with three occupants.
“In the passenger seat was a 12-year-old boy who had been shot multiple times. He died on the spot,” explained a New York City Police (NYPD) inspector, Michael Kemper. He added that a 20-year-old woman, sitting in the driver’s seat, had also been shot several times. She was taken to hospital for surgery and “should 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 crossed the vehicle”, according to the policeman.
“As long as we have guns…”
It remains to be seen whether the victims were targeted or were hit by stray bullets? New York City Mayor Eric Adams, an African-American ex-policeman, wondered, “What happens that people sitting in their cars are 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 , especially 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,” he lamented. .
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