A COVID-vaccination bus 20 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 New York police, the projectiles hit the city’s vaccination bus that was occupied and parked in 18th Street and Ninth Avenue yesterday around 2 pm, one block from the popular “High Line” tourist attraction.
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 the charges against them were pending, reported New York Post. The motive for the shooting is not clear.
In In recent days, several arrests have been reported for serious incidents of school violence in NYC and Long Island, where the radars are on due to the local rise 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 from 18 to 21 years the minimum age to buy semi-automatic rifles, as part of a package to increase control over weapons.
Also yesterday, a 13 year old student was arrested after threatening to carry out a Westhampton Beach High School shooting on Long Island.
Wednesday, in Brooklyn (NYC) a 20 year old student was arrested at “Erasmus High School” with a magazine full of 8 bullets in his backpack, police said. On Tuesday, another Long Island student was charged with making terroristic threats against students and teachers at Westbury High School.
Last week two students were arrested in Queens and Long Island for threatening to shoot up their schools, a few days after the massacre of the 20 May in Uvalde (Texas).