By The newspaper
08 May 2024, 01:13 AM EDT
A 16-year-old teenager died after being shot in the head yesterday mid-afternoon in a small square in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan (NYC).
According to the NYPD, two groups of girls were fighting around 2:25 pm on Tuesday when two males intervened. Suddenly one of them shot the victim in the head and leg. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he died, he reported. Daily News. He was a student at a nearby school, but his name has not been revealed.
Foster Sarpong, manager of a nearby parking lot, told ABC News who ducked for cover behind a parked car when he heard the gunshots.
The crime occurred on a pedestrian strip that connects Spring St and Dominick St. near the Dominick Hotel, several museums and schools. In the area there is a square that is popular with tourists and students. “What is Mayor Adams going to do with all this gun violence?” resident Thomas Libonati asked rhetorically.
Police believe the argument began at school, spread to public space and then ended with the teen’s death. The gunman and a friend escaped on a Citi Bike.
No arrests have been made or suspects identified. Anyone with information should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the website crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
Young people are protagonists in armed violence in New York as victims and perpetrators, particularly shootings and attacks with knives in streets, homes, schools, public transportation and businesses.
Also yesterday, two young men were stabbed around 4:30 pm in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Last week, a fifteen-year-old girl stabbed her neighbor to death in the middle of a group of teenagers outside her building in the Bronx (NYC).
In October, a 13-year-old student was stabbed to death by a 14-year-old student while leaving class on an MTA bus in Staten Island (NYC).