In New York, shooting at party leaves one dead and six injured

A 20-year-old girl died and six other people were injured after a shooting last night during a party in the Brooklyn district of New York, United States, where authorities consider that the event is connected to a similar case that occurred during that same day.

According to the head of the New York Police Department, Terence Monahan, the agents are investigating what happened and looking for those responsible, but so far they have not made any arrests

The event occurred after 11:00 p.m. local time in an apartment building located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. According to local media reports, the police authorities do not rule out the possibility that it is connected to another previous shooting during that day, in which a 17-year-old was injured.

According to witnesses cited by the New York Post, the attack was apparently premeditated and took place during a party with teenagers. Among the wounded there is a 14 year old girl and a 16 year old boy, points this medium.

So far this year and coinciding with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, New York and other large cities in the United States have experienced a significant spike in gun violence.

New York, which before the pandemic had reached the lowest levels of violence in the last fifty years, has seen how murders in the first nine months of 2020 have seen an increase of close to 40 percent.

Last month, the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, located in Brooklyn, announced that it was going to get involved in the investigation of gun violence, something that it routinely leaves in the hands of local and state authorities to focus on large criminal networks. .

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