New York police are appealing for witnesses to find a suspect after two homeless people sleeping rough were shot dead Saturday morning. One of the two victims is dead.
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According to initial investigations, a suspect first fired a gun at a 38-year-old man, found injured but alive in the early morning in Lower Manhattan. Then, shortly before 5:00 p.m., 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 6:00 a.m. as he slept, 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 in the street. They weren’t committing a crime. They slept in the street”, he denounced.
A third victim?
Eric Adams and police have called on the tens of thousands of homeless New Yorkers to avoid sleeping rough and join emergency shelters in the city of nearly 9 million people.
According to several media, citing police sources, a third homeless man was found dead shortly before 7:00 p.m. 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 it is a homeless person.
New York has many homeless people sleeping on the streets. The Democratic mayor, who took office on January 1, announced in mid-February a plan to dislodge those who settle in the gigantic underground network of the metro, especially in winter, when temperatures frequently drop below 0 degrees. Celsius.
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