NYPD in the Bronx / File.
Foto:
Drew Angerer / Getty Images
“I am exhausted, I am pregnant, I am afraid to go out,” said Norma Solís, a 32-year-old Hispanic woman who is expecting her fourth child, after two of them were hit in a hail of bullets that broke out Tuesday in a park in El Bronx (NYC).
“I have to go out to get medicine and I don’t feel safe to go out. I don’t want to go out on the street,” Solís reiterated in Spanish to the Daily News. “I don’t want to go anywhere. I have no words.”
The shooting took place in St. James Park near 193rd Street and Morris Avenue around 5:45 p.m. Tuesday. The NYPD was in the area and said that two suspects riding an illegal scooter stopped in the park and fired into the crowd.
The apparent targets were 25-year-old Luigi Delacruz, who was shot in the lower back, and his cousin William Delacruz (23), who was hit in the thigh. Two of Solís’ children, ages 3 and 6, were shot in the leg. The four Hispanic victims were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition.
I don’t want to go anywhere. I have no words… I am afraid to go out”
Norma Solís, mother of two children shot
Mother of young boys shot in Bronx says she’s now scared to go outside
The two young brothers were just innocent bystanders as a masked gunman jumped off the back of a scooter in Kingsbridge and opened fire at a pair of young adults standing nearby.https://t.co/CkUx8LvTAR
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 12, 2023
Solis watched helplessly as a masked gunman jumped from the back of a scooter outside St. James Park in Kingsbridge and opened fire on nearby DelaCruz cousins, standing next to a gray Acura parked on E. 193rd St. nearby. from Morris Ave.
She and her children were innocent victims, and even the pregnant mother was grazed by a bullet in her left leg. He also has a 1-year-old baby, who was unharmed. She added that hThere were police officers patrolling the park at the time.but to no avail.
After the shooting, the gunman ran to catch up with the scooter driver before getting back on. He and his accomplice fled east on E. 193rd St. before turning right on Creston Ave. They have not been arrested. Anyone with information should call to 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the page crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
Police sources said the attack may have occurred in retaliation for a fatal shooting in the area the early morning of July 5 during a wave of armed violence that claimed two lives and left 12 injured around the city, at the close of the Independence Day holiday. One of the fatalities was an 18-year-old teenager who was shot in the leg in the Bronx and later died at St. Barnabas Hospital.
70% of NYC residents fear they will be victims of a crime, according to an alarming survey released this week.
2023-07-13 16:34:00
#Latino #children #shot #playing #York #park #pregnant #mother #afraid
