Citi Bike-riding gunmen shoot 2 in NYC in overnight mayhem: NYPD

Yahoo

27-04-2025

Gunmen riding Citi Bikes shot two people in the Bronx — kicking off a spat of violence that stretched across three boroughs, cops said.
A man, 32, was blasted in the torso at East 146th Street and Brook Avenue by two males on one Citi Bike, cops said.
About 15 minutes later, a woman, 35, was shot in the leg when gunfire rang out near Westchester Aveue and Third Avenue in Mott Haven around 9:20 p.m., cops said. Police were looking for two males riding separate Citi Bikes in that incident, according to cops.
It wasn't immediately clear if the two incidents were related or if the victims were intended targets, police said. Both were taken to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition.
Investigators were out at the scenes canvassing for video, cops said.
The woman was an innocent bystander, said a neighbor who did not want to be identified.
'She was walking home, as she came into the building she got hit,' the neighbor said. 'She is ok. She got home from the hospital.'
Gunshots are familiar fare in the neighborhood, another resident said.
'I live on the 18th floor. I heard three gunshots. One, two, three,' said Jess Fernandez, 69. 'I don't know who got shot. But it happens all the time.'
Later, a man was shot at West 146th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in Harlem around 1:30 a.m., cops said.
When police arrived at the scene, they were told the victim, 41, had already left. They found him at Harlem Hospital with a gunshot wound to the stomach, police said.
The victim was in stable condition early Saturday. The motive was unknown.
Nearly three hours later, a man was shot once in the back around 4 a.m. at Steinway Street and Astoria Boulevard in Astoria, Queens, police said. The 25-year-old was taken to Elmhurst Hospital in stable condition.
The number of shooting incidents is down from 217 to 178 so far this year, when compared to the same period last year and shooting victims decreased from 256 to 209, an 18% drop, according to NYPD data.