A 34-year-old man died and five people were injured – two women and three other men, aged 14 to 71 – police officers (NYPD) said during a press briefing this Monday following a shooting on a New York subway platform.
It was not a question of a lone shooter who opened fire “at random” on passengers, clarified Commissioner Michael Kemper, in a city marked by the crime in 2022 of a sixty-year-old who had fired into a train of the crowded metro, miraculously leaving only around thirty people injured.
A call for witnesses launched
Late Monday afternoon, two groups of young people were “arguing” on a train entering the station when a member of one group pulled out a weapon and opened fire on the platform, just as the carriage doors were opening. opened and passengers got on and off, Kemper said.
The police officer did not give the identity of the victims except to specify that “one of them, a 34-year-old man, unfortunately died” in hospital.
Among the five injured hospitalized, the New York firefighters (FDNY) counted four “seriously” injured, according to an email to AFP. The shooter is on the run and police have launched an appeal for witnesses.
” It is not normal. Shootings like that in the metro network are extremely rare and unacceptable,” assured police officer Kemper.
Crime and in particular homicides by firearms have been declining in New York since 2022-2023, after the Covid pandemic, and the carrying of weapons in public is strictly regulated there, compared to other cities and States of the United States.
2024-02-13 08:24:09
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