Near 30 persons received bullet impacts this weekend in New York, one of which passed away, confirmed sources of the forces of the order of the city, figures that indicate a continuation of the wave of violence that you live in the metropolis.
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According to the local New York Post, the incidents occurred from Friday to Sunday at 2:00 p.m. local time (6:00 p.m. GMT), although the most violent hours were those of the early morning from Saturday to Sunday, when 11 people were injured in a short period of time.
The source consulted by the local media, which describes him as a veteran agent of the New York Police, affirms that most of the events are the result of activities of street gangs.
“These kids are fighting gun battles and there are innocent people who are being injured,” said the policeman, who pointed out that there are many more shootings that take place but that do not leave victims.
Although these figures are still far from the worst years of violence in New York in the 1990s, the agent warned that “the weekend is not over yet,” noting that there were two more shootings on Sunday afternoon. .
Among the victims are an 18-year-old man who received a fatal bullet in the neck on Friday in the Far Rockaways area, in Queens, and a Manhattan prosecutor, Mollie Bracewell, who was injured when a bullet grazed her face while dining. on a terrace of a restaurant in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, also on Friday.
In addition to the shootings, two more men were killed Friday, one of whom was stabbed in north Brooklyn and another after being beaten in the northeast Bronx.
With information from EFE
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