Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Year : 2, Issue : 7
An argument between two groups of teenagers left one person killed and five others injured in a shooting at a New York subway station on Monday, police said.
The shooting started after the train’s doors opened on the elevated platform at the Mount Eden Avenue station in The Bronx at about 4.38pm – a time when stations throughout the city are filled with kids returning from school and when many workers are beginning their evening commute.
A 34-year-old man was killed. The wounded included a 14-year-old girl, 15-year-old boy and three adults of 28, 29 and 71. Some of the victims were believed to have been involved in the dispute and others were bystanders waiting for the train, police said, describing four of the injuries as serious.
Police are searching for at least one shooter, who fled the scene, but have not ruled out the possibility of multiple suspects.
The station is in the Bronx, at the intersection of Mount Eden and Jerome Avenues.
The gunfire sent passengers rushing off the train while people on the platform scrambled for safety.
The most recent data shows crime remains rare on New York’s subway system: about 3.8m trips are taken on the system on an average weekday, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
reported 570 felony assaults in all of 2023.
Source: CBS News
