Two women and a child injured in New York shooting

A shooting this Saturday afternoon in Times Square, New York, United States, left as balance From wounded women and a four-year-old child, reported the city ​​police who highlighted that, so far, Motivations for the shooting are unknown.

The attack took place shortly before 17:00 local time at the crossing of 7th Avenue y 44th Street, said a police spokesman. According to the police officer of the three victims They were admitted to a Manhattan hospital and their lives were not in danger.

The first reports indicate that no arrests have yet been made and the police said that “the investigation is ongoing”, without giving more details. A press conference will take place on Saturday night.

Through his official Twitter account the aMayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, stressed that those responsible for the shooting are being sought in Times Square.

“Fortunately, these innocent bystanders are in stable condition. The perpetrators of this violence are being sought and the police will bring them to justice. The flow of illegal weapons reaching New York must be stopped ”,

Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York.

The change of Times Square

Times Square, one of the tourist spots of the metropolis before the pandemic, has changed since all the cinemas closed in March 2020.

According to a recent report by Times Square Alliance, neighborhood business association, the area recorded 25 violent crimes in the first quarter of 2021, compared to 17 of the same periodor 2020.

At the end of March, the recording in video of the assault on a sexagenarian of Asian origin in the neighborhood had deeply shocked.

A man with a heavy judicial record, who lived in a hotel near Times Square cturned into a reception center for the homeless, he was arrested and accused for that fact.

New York and the shooting crisis

Go tshootings in New York have increased dramatically since the summer of 2020 and the protests against police violence that followed the George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, which generated controversy about the causes and remedies for this increase, six weeks before the primaries for the municipal elections.

According to the latest official statistics, New York had 149 shootings in April, compared to 56 in April 2020 (+ 166%). Overall crime increased 30% during the same period.

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