“It’s going to be OK. God willing. It is in the hands of God,” said Miraida Gómez in reference to her baby, who will spend his first birthday in the hospital today while recovering from a stray bullet that hit her in the face, hit inside a car in the Bronx.
“She is stable”, said Gómez (32) excited yesterday to the New York Post yesterday morning, hours after her baby Catherine was shot in the Bedford Park neighborhood around 6: 45 Wednesday pm, while both were waiting in the car for the girl’s father, Louis Ortiz, who I was doing some shopping.
The near death tragedy occurred near the intersection of East 198th Street and Valentine Avenue. A video released by the New York police yesterday captured the gunman whose bullet hit the baby, firing wildly near her as he chased an unidentified target.
Dramatic crime scene photos show baby Catherine’s pink coat soaked in blood and abandoned on the street, after her parents rushed her to the hospital.
“I will stay on these streets until this city is safe,” Mayor Eric Adams said at a press conference at the site Wednesday night, after visiting to the Hispanic family victim ima in the hospital, vowing to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.
No arrests have been made. Anyone with information should call 1-577-577-TIPS (74782) and in Spanish 1-888-57-CLUE (74782). Also through crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP550. All communications are strictly confidential.
After the rise of armed violence in 2020 and 2021 particularly among young gang members and/or victims, the year 2022 has started with the same trend, representing a great challenge for the new mayor Adams, a former NYPD officer.