US police reported the shooting took place early Monday morning in the Harlem neighbourhood One person was killed and eight others injured Monday in a shooting in the Harlem neighbourhood of New York, United States.
New York police said a shooting occurred early in the morning, killing one man, and injuring eight others, six men and two women. According to the first elements of the investigation, the authorities asserted that the shooting targeted a group of people who were on the sidewalk after having finished attending a party, late Sunday evening, according to the American channel “ABC News”.
The same source indicated that the victim was a 21-year-old man who succumbed to his injuries on arrival at the hospital. In this context, New York police pointed out that the shooting took place on the sidelines of Father’s Day celebrations. Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell told a press conference that “Father’s Day coincided with the weekend when people were supposed to be able to have fun with their families.”
According to American media, a pistol was found near the accident, while the police have not been able to arrest any suspects, until now. On May 24, an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at Uvalde Elementary School in Texas.
Ten days prior to this shooting, an armed white man stormed a Tops supermarket in Buffalo and resulted in the deaths of 10 people with most of the victims being African American. Authorities described the shooting in Buffalo as a “racially motivated hate crime.”
At least 255 shooting have occurred in 2022 in the US. Separately, President Joe Biden has called on Congress to change the nation’s gun buying age laws to save lives.
New York have since introduced two new legislations; they have raised the legal age of purchase for a semi-automatic weapon from 18 to 21, and the now also require micro-stamping in new firearms, which could help investigators solve gun crimes.