New York. A one-year-old toddler died after being shot in New York. The little boy was in his stroller on Sunday night during a barbecue party in a park in the Brooklyn borough when two men started shooting for reasons unknown, the police said. Three men were injured, the toddler was hit in the stomach and died shortly after in hospital. “This is so painful,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio at a press conference on Monday. “It’s not something we can ever look away from.”
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The number of shootings in the metropolis has risen sharply in recent weeks. In the first six months or so of the year, according to New York police, there were 585 incidents of gunfire, compared with 381 last year. 181 people died compared to 147 in the previous year. Around a third of the shootings this year occurred in June alone. Among other things, a 15-year-old teenager and a man who was crossing the street with his six-year-old daughter died in the past few weeks.
