A 55-year-old old New Yorker was grazed by a lost bullet while on Thursday evening he walked at Central Park West when she told the “frightening” test to the post.
The innocent bystander, who did not want to be identified, said she was suddenly in the fire line around 8:40 PM when she went to take a bus in the park and West 108th Street in Manhattan.
“Someone got out of the bus and shot the man on the street,” the victim told the post on Friday. “I had to turn quickly from:” Oh, I’m not going to make that bus ” [to]”I have to go the other way.”
“I think while I turned around when I knew I was being hit,” the woman said. “And those two people were still there, so I just tried to hurry away, back to where my friends were in the restaurant to get help.”
The wounded woman was brought to Mount Sinai Morningside, where she was mentioned in a stable state, the police said.
“It is going to heal,” she said about her grazing wound – but added that the emotional impact got her even harder.
“The panic I felt and how close it was – frightening,” she said and was stifled. “And that could just as easily have been an inch of something [worse] On that street, and not knowing that I was there. ‘
The suspected shooter, last seen in the whole black, fled on foot from the upper west side, said the sources of law enforcement.
The victim – who has been living in the Big Apple since 1993 – said it is too early to say if she feels comfortable to walk the streets of the city again.
“It’s so acute now, I can’t even tell you. I have to find out,” the woman said.
“It’s just a problem. It has to be solved. It’s too chaotic,” she said about street crime.
The New Yorker said that the reaction of the police to her shooting was “excellent”, but added that something should change system -wide.
“There are people who feel that they can threaten and shoot on each other, and why do they feel that way?” she said. “What consequences or lack of consequences are there? I don’t know.”
This year, the woman seemed to be shot in the 24th district of the NYPD so far.
From the latest departmental data, updated on Sunday, showed that two people were injured during a single shooting in the borders of the district.
In that shooting at the beginning of January, a 16-year-old boy was blasted in the stomach and another man, whose age was unclear, was hit in a deli on the corner of West 92nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, the police said at the time.
According to the police, both victims were brought to nearby hospitals in a stable state.
Nobody was shot in the district in the same period last year, according to statistics.
City -wide, two innocent bystanders have been dodifically shot in recent weeks.
Grandmother and pioneering Harlem Bodega owner Excenia Mette, 61, was captured in Crossfire and was deadly shot in the head on April 22 when she ran out to check her grandson.
Another innocent bystander, the 28-year-old plumber’s Apprentice Daoud Marji, was also killed by a lost bullet a day later while visiting a friend in the Bronx.
