US Shooting: 1 Dead, 2 Injured In Gunfire Near New York City Migrant Shelter
Date
7/29/2024 10:25:10 PM
(MENAFN- Live Mint) A woman was killed and two people were wounded early Monday in a shooting near a New York City migrant shelter as a crowd gathered for the results of Venezuela's presidential election, Police said.
A gunman fired on the gathering in a park on Randall's Island around 3:30 am. At least two of the people who were shot - the woman who died and another woman who was injured - were believed to have been living at the shelter, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said.
The suspected shooter, identified by police as a man upset about a prior robbery, opened fire from about 100 feet (30.5 metres) away and fled on a moped, Chell said. No arrests have been made.
A 44-year-old woman died from gunshot wounds to the face and back, police said. A 31-year-old woman who was shot in the back and a 32-year-old man who was shot in the throat were hospitalised in stable condition. Police have not released their names.
Chell said police believe the shooter was retaliating after he was the victim of an earlier robbery at gunpoint. About 50 people were gathered in an athletic field, a few hundred feet from the shelter where, on any given night, some 3,000 migrants sleep on cots lined up inside huge tents.
“We do know why they were there - many were celebrating the election in Venezuela,” NYPD spokesperson Tarik Sheppard said. But, since the island is open to the public, he said,“there's no way to determine whether every single person who was out there was definitely staying at this facility.”
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