A 61-year-old woman who was deadly shot in Harlem on Tuesday evening was an innocent bystander who was trapped between two groups shot on each other, said police officers.
According to the NYPD, the woman was on the sidewalk on Malcolm X Boulevard near West 113th Street when rifle fire broke out around 10:20 pm
Officials said she had been beaten in the head and was declared dead in the Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital. She was not immediately identified because the police worked to inform her family.
The police said on Wednesday that they were interrogating a 23-year-old man who was reportedly involved in the shootout and was shot in his foot. He was in a stable condition in the hospital and the police did not charge or identified him.
Civil servants said they were still looking for the other people who were involved in the dispute. They said that eight bullet changes were restored on the spot.
Separately, the NYPD said it was also looking for five or six suspects who killed and killed 19-year-old Kevin Hernandez on Tuesday in Queens.
Officials said he was shot across the street from the Joseph F. Quinn Intermediate School at George Street near Cypress Avenue in Ridgewood. First Responders took him to the Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, where he succumbed to his injuries.
The police said that the motive for the shooting was still unclear on Wednesday.
Police data show that rifle violence has fallen considerably in the NYPDs this year so far 28th districtThat Central Harlem includes immediately north of Central Park. Tuesday’s incident marked the first fatal shooting of the district of the year, according to police data compiled by Gothamist. Three people were shot and killed in the district last year.
Shootings have become relatively rare in the 104th districtIncluding Ridgewood, Glendale, Middle Village and MASPETH, according to police data. The death of Hernandez is the only gun murder in the district since 2023, according to the analysis of Gothamist.
This is a developing story based on provisional information from the police and can be updated.
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