NYCHA public housing area in Chelsea, Manhattan.
Photo: Ramón Frisneda / Impremedia
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A COVID-19 vaccination bus was shot at yesterday in broad daylight in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan (NYC), causing the closure of two neighboring schools for fear of a new school massacre.
According to the NYPD, the projectiles hit the city’s vaccination bus that was occupied and parked at 18th Street and Ninth Avenue around 2 p.m. yesterday, one block from the popular tourist attraction “High Line”.
There were no injuries, but The New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies and Hudson High School of Learning Technologies were temporarily closed during the investigation, the NYPD said.
Three unidentified suspects were arrested at the scene and charges against them were pending, he said. New York Post. The motive for the shooting is unclear.
In recent days, several arrests have been reported for serious incidents of school violence in NYC and Long Island, where the radars are lit by the local boom in gun crime and the massacre last week of students in Uvalde (Texas), 10 days after a massacre in a supermarket in Buffalo (NY).
New York state legislators yesterday approved a new law that raises the minimum age to purchase semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21., as part of a package to increase gun control.
also yesterday, a 13-year-old student was arrested after threatening to carry out a shooting at Westhampton Beach High School in Long Island.
On Wednesday, in Brooklyn (NYC) a 20-year-old student was arrested at “Erasmus High School” with a gun magazine filled with 8 bullets in his backpack, the police said. On Tuesday, on Long Island another student was accused of making terrorist threats against students and teachers en “Westbury High School”.
In the past week two students were arrested in Queens and Long Island for threatening to shoot up their schools, a few days after the massacre of May 24 in Uvalde (Texas).
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