The author of the attack, which took place in a metro station of the city and during which twenty-three people were injured, was always sought by the police, Tuesday night .
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The cycle of violence continues in New York. Tuesday, April 12, twenty-three people were injured, including ten by bullets, in the south of Brooklyn. The shooting took place in the Sunset Park district, shortly before 8:30 local time (2:30 pm in Paris) in a crowded metro, at the 36th Street station, a hub where three lines intersect. If five people were in critical condition, their lives were not in danger.
“We were really lucky that it was not much more serious,” said New York Police at the end of the day, Keechant Sewell. A miracle when we know that the shooter, who was still on Tuesday night, pressed thirty-three times on relaxation.
A little earlier in the day, the authorities had indicated that when the train entered the station, the suspect had put a gas mask, open a cylinder who had filled the smoke wagon and had put to shoot. Videos and amateur photos posted on social networks have shown puddles of blood and people lying on land.
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Keechant Sewell excluded a terrorist act at this stage. The shooter, described by the police like “a black man”, carrying a construction jacket and a gray hoodie, was still sought after by the police, Tuesday night.
On the spot, the investigators have regained a handy weapon and three chargers. A car key also allowed them to go back to an abandoned van in Brooklyn. The police gave the description of the individual who had rented this vehicle in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), without saying if it were the suspect.
Crime is up sharply in New York
In the morning, the Governor Democrat of the New York State, Kathy Hochul, could not retain his anger. “We have enough reading the big titles on crime, whether shooting or the loss of a teenager or 13-year-old. It must stop,” A-T- She hammered. An allusion to several victims who have recently found death during the previous shootings or who have been reached by lost balls.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, crime is rising sharply in New York, very hard hit by CVIV-19. If we are still far from the black years of the 1990 decade, where the violence reached peaks, the situation deteriorated in recent months. In 2021, the New York police counted 488 homicides in the megacity of nearly 9 million inhabitants, slightly up after a leap in 2020 (468 homicides against 319 in 2019).
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