Daniel Ortiz, a young man of 23 years old, died shot in the basement of a house on Mexico Street, Queens (NYC).
Detectives are looking for the gunman and it was not specified why the young man residing in Williamsburg (Brooklyn) was in that house in the St. Albans neighborhood, when he was shot around 3: 57 pm Monday Presidents’ Day holiday.
The officers of the police station 113, when answering a call to 911 about the shooting, Ortiz was found with gunshot wounds to the shoulder, torso, and thigh.
Paramedics rushed him to Jamaica Hospital, where he died a short time later. As of yesterday, the NYPD had no new details about the circumstances leading up to the shooting, nor a description of a suspect, reported amNY.
The police are also looking for the gunman who killed Ángel Ortega, a man from 44 years old who was shot five times in the back walking in broad daylight in the Bronx on Saturday.
No arrests have been made. Anyone with information should call 1-888-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-CLUE (74782). Also through crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
After the rise of armed violence in 2020 and 2021 particularly among young gang members and/or victims, the 2022 started with the same trend, representing a great challenge for the new mayor Eric Adams, former NYPD. According to the latest figures, there were 57 citywide shootings last month, a jump from January 2021 when they registered 76. These figures also show an increase with respect to 2020 and 2019, when there was 67 and 52 acts of shooting, respectively.