armed violence

24-year-old Tresean Gilchrist died after spending 3 weeks in a coma and handcuffed after being shot in the stomach and hit in the head while trying to escape from a gust of wind on a sidewalk in Harlem (NYC).

In the middle of the shooting on July 13, Gilchrist hit his head and was injured. traumatic brain injury. After three weeks, yesterday His parents made the difficult decision to take him off life support..

“That was the worst decision I’ve ever made in my life,” Jerome Gilchrist told The Advocate Daily News. “It bothered me every day to see someone like that with his leg cut off. The distraught parents said the young man did not even know he had been shot as he was among a group of people who ran for their lives when bullets started flying across the street. W. 144th St. near 7th Ave. Just a few minutes before he fell from where he was injured.

“One of his friends who was there told me that’s what he said: ‘They shot me'”said their distraught mother, Imee Wilkins. “His friend said, ‘Lie down, lie down,’ but it was too late. Tresean fell down just like that.”

Officials initially said Gilchrist was shot after an argument with the gunman near W. 140th St. around 1 a.m. But Gilchrist’s mother and father, who spoke to others who were present, said he was wounded by a stray bullet fired at the group in the middle of an altercation between two men.

The gunman, dressed in black, ran away. Police found three bullet casings. on W. 144th St., according to a report.

A friend of Gilchrist notified his parents that he was injured, and the couple went to Harlem Hospital, where their son was hospitalized. seven hours in surgery and had to have his leg amputated due to infection. Then they didn’t see him at all because he was handcuffed to bed because he had an outstanding warrant as a result of his arrest from 2021-2022 to skip the Metro timetable.

Gilchrist’s parents were devastated. “They had him handcuffed” on one arm and one leg, his father said. “We had to go to the police station first and (at the hospital) he had a police officer in front of his room like he was running away or something” even with his leg amputated .

“When they were talking about his head injury, they said he wouldn’t remember anything, he probably wouldn’t know who he was. We would have to put him in a facility and he would be on a machine and we would talk to him as we are doing now. “I didn’t want to continue seeing him like that.”

In addition to working as a security guard, Gilchrist bought and sold sports shoes high-end cars and enjoyed the finer things in life, his parents said.

“He loved designer things,” his mother said. “I was wearing $600 or $700 jeans. His tastes were beyond my capabilities … When he gave gifts, he gave big gifts. He would make sure that he takes care of you. And his friends will tell you that he took care of them.”

No arrests have been made or any suspects identified. Anyone with information should call at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the page Crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CREATIVE), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.

In a similar case, Last night 6 young people were injured by two gunmen outside a park in the Bronx. Gun violence is constant in New York and some victims are hit at random on streets, schools, public transport and businesses. The fights are usually linked to a battle between gang members for territory and Suspects often incriminate themselves by bragging and posting about their crimes on social media.

Tomas Dunn, a 24-year-old young man, was sentenced after pleading guilty to shooting Saladeen Cochrane (41), his mother’s ex-boyfriend, in Harlem (NYC).

Dunn appeared Tuesday before the Manhattan Supreme Court to receive his sentence 18 years after pleading guilty in June to the murder he said he filled “shame and guilt.”

The crime occurred on the night of September 30, 2022 outside of “Frederick Samuel Apartments” (NYCHA) at 112 West 144th St. Cochrane He died after dying for three days in the hospital and a few weeks later Dunn turned himself in to the police.

“It’s crazy to mention murder. All murders are tragic,” Assistant District Attorney Matthew Bogdanos said in court, quoted by Daily News. “Not only was this sad, but it was also senseless… That’s something everyone involved will have to live with forever. “

The shooting happened after Dunn ran into Cochrane, who lived a few blocks from him and had dated his mother years earlier. After starting a fight, the young man left for a short time and then returned to seduce his victim, according to court records. After firing eight shots, Dunn shot Cochrane in the back of the head as he tried to escape.

In tearful statements in court Tuesday, Cochrane’s loved ones told Dunn they are still heartbroken over the crime. Dunn said he was wracked with “shame and guilt” for leaving the Cochrane children as orphans and said he knew firsthand “the pain, anger and sadness associated with not having a father.”

Gun violence is constant in New York and some victims are hit at random on streets, schools, public transport and businesses. The fights are usually linked to a battle between gang members for territory and Suspects often incriminate themselves by bragging and posting about their crimes on social media.

Recently Romaán Martínez, construction superintendent, was killed inside the mobile home where he lived in the Bronx. The NYPD released a photo of the gunman, who remains at large.

Last week another Hispanic man was shot dead in the Bronx: to Miguel Cruz, a 47-year-old man, they shot at him from a motorcycle at 1600 Sedgwick Av.