It was around 8 p.m. when a 911 call alerted authorities to shooting at Fort Washington Park in Upper Manhattan.
When the uniformed officer arrived, they found a 23-year-old Hispanic holding a gun. The officers ordered him, in English and Spanish, to drop the weapon but the subject did not do so and instead pointed at the officers. It was then that the uniformed men fired.
And it is to this same park that a father of a family and his little girl do not dare to visit in the afternoons.
“We have gone several times but during the day, in safe hours but not late. At night it is not safe to go down there. There are people who go down, but since it is very desolate down there, it is not on our route. his thing, you understand me, we have no security, “explains this father with concern.
Other neighbors say that the fact of a person having a firearm in the park is worrying because it is here that many go out to exercise, recreate or walk their pets: “You have to be careful. That has never happened here. in the park, precisely, at night they close it because people get there “.
Someone else added: “It is a good park that, in the summer, you can sit down. You can be there for a while, it is very good this park. Only so far. Not everyone should have a gun.”
Others think that the park is very desolate, mainly at nightfall.
In this case the subject was wounded in the torso and is expected to recover from his injuries.
The agents, meanwhile, were also transferred to an area hospital only to be examined as a precaution after the incident; but they were not injured.
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