A 17 -year -old is pointed as the aggressor. The alleged responsible is detained and low interrogation.
Three people were injured in a shooting that occurred in the early hours of Saturday in the emblematic Times Square, in New York. As detailed by the Local Police Department, the attack occurred around 1:20 and would have begun after a verbal discussion of the aggressor with one of the victims.
Security officers arrested a 17 -year -old as alleged author of the shots and recovered the weapon used. Due to his age, his identity was not revealed and, so far, no charges were presented.
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The scene occurred at the intersection of 44th Street and the Seventh Avenue, in the Theater District, a popular tourist destination. Shiroteing He was filmed by the witnesses who were at the place of the attack and disseminated on social networks. In it, you can see a multitude fleeing, while police officers surrounded a car and helped the victims.
An 18 -year -old woman, a 19 and another man of 65 were injured for the attack with a firearm. After what happened, they had to be transferred to the Bellevue Hospital, where they all remain in stable and out of danger.
This episode occurs in a context in which New York records a historical decline in armed violence: HAsta on August 3, the city reported the least amount of shootings in decades, with a drop of 23% year -on -year.
New York: at least 4 dead and several injured in the most lethal shooting of the last 25 years
A shooting that occurred on Monday in Midtown, Manhattan, left four dead and a serious injury, in which the authorities consider the most lethal attack recorded in New York City in the last 25 years. The author, identified as Shane Tamura, 27 years old and a native of Las Vegas, committed suicide after perpetrating the attack.
According to New York Police, Tamura – who had recently worked as a security guard in a casino – entered armed with an assault rifle at Park Avenue shortly before 18:30 and opened fire against several people. The attack ended when life was removed on the 33rd floor of the building.
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The last episode of armed violence with such a high balance of victims in the city had occurred in 2000, when two armed men killed five people during a robbery in a Wendy’s store, in Queens.
One day before the massacre, Mayor Eric Adams had stressed that the city experienced the “lower number of shootings and homicides in registered history,” CNN cited. “We achieved that task because if there are no weapons on the street, they cannot be used to damage innocent people, and we succeed,” he said.
According to data from the Gun Violence Archive, andThis becomes the mass shooting number 254 in the United States so far this year.
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