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According to initial investigations, a suspect first fired a gun at a 38-year-old man who was found injured but alive in the early morning hours in Lower Manhattan.
Then, shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday (2200 GMT), in the same neighborhood, the police found another man dead in his sleeping bag, with head and neck injuries. According to CCTV footage, the suspect shot him around 6 a.m. while he was sleeping, shortly after the first incident.
“These acts are clear and they are awful,” Democratic Mayor Eric Adams lamented on Saturday evening. “Two people were shot because they were sleeping on the street. They were not committing a crime, they were sleeping on the street,” he said.
Eric Adams and police have called on New York’s tens of thousands of homeless people to avoid sleeping rough and join emergency shelters in the city of nearly 9 million people.
But according to several media, including the NBC New York site, citing police sources, a third homeless man was found dead shortly before 7 p.m. local time on Sunday, still in Lower Manhattan. A spokesperson for the NYPD, the New York police, initially only confirmed to AFP that a man had been found dead, with “possible gunshot wounds” and that it would appear “that he is a homeless person.
New York has huge numbers of homeless people sleeping on the streets and the Democratic mayor, who took office on 1is January, announced in mid-February a plan to dislodge those who settle in the gigantic underground metro network, especially in winter when temperatures frequently drop below 0 degrees Celsius.
Eric Adams was responding to a series of headline-grabbing crimes, including the death of a woman pushed onto the subway tracks by a mentally ill homeless man.
His project had been poorly received by certain associations, including the Coalition for the Homeless, which had replied that “people settle in the metro because they have no better place to go”.
“Despite the headlines, homeless people in New York are far more likely to be victims of crimes than their perpetrators,” the association added on Sunday, calling on the mayor “to recognize that his policies put them at risk. danger “.
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According to initial investigations, a suspect first fired a gun at a 38-year-old man who was found injured but alive in the early morning hours in Lower Manhattan.
Then, shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday (2200 GMT), in the same neighborhood, the police found another man dead in his sleeping bag, with head and neck injuries. According to CCTV footage, the suspect shot him around 6 a.m. while he was sleeping, shortly after the first incident.
“These acts are clear and they are awful,” Democratic Mayor Eric Adams lamented on Saturday evening. “Two people were shot because they were sleeping on the street. They were not committing a crime, they were sleeping on the street,” he said.
Eric Adams and police have called on New York’s tens of thousands of homeless people to avoid sleeping rough and join emergency shelters in the city of nearly 9 million people.
But according to several media, including the NBC New York site, citing police sources, a third homeless man was found dead shortly before 7 p.m. local time on Sunday, still in Lower Manhattan. A spokesperson for the NYPD, the New York police, initially only confirmed to AFP that a man had been found dead, with “possible gunshot wounds” and that it would appear “that he is a homeless person.
New York has huge numbers of homeless people sleeping on the streets and the Democratic mayor, who took office on 1is January, announced in mid-February a plan to dislodge those who settle in the gigantic underground metro network, especially in winter when temperatures frequently drop below 0 degrees Celsius.
Eric Adams was responding to a series of headline-grabbing crimes, including the death of a woman pushed onto the subway tracks by a mentally ill homeless man.
His project had been poorly received by certain associations, including the Coalition for the Homeless, which had replied that “people settle in the metro because they have no better place to go”.
“Despite the headlines, homeless people in New York are far more likely to be victims of crimes than their perpetrators,” the association added on Sunday, calling on the mayor “to recognize that his policies put them at risk. danger “.
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