Investigation follows capturing, stabbing after Bronx Dominican Parade on Grand Concourse in NYC

GRAND CONCOURSE, The Bronx (WABC) — The seek for suspects continues after the Bronx’s Dominican Parade wrapped up with a string of violence on Sunday.

Three folks had been shot and one particular person was stabbed after Sunday’s Bronx Dominican parade close to the Grand Concourse.

“It is presupposed to be a day the place you will have enjoyable and rejoice your nation and unhealthy issues occur, when are you gonna cease, ?” Bronx resident Ashley Torres stated.

Witnesses stated they heard the gun pictures ring out, sending the group scrambling for security. It was a devastating finish to the festivities following a celebration of Dominican heritage within the South Bronx.

Police say there have been three violent incidents within the space: a 19-year-old man stabbed within the hip; a 24-year-old man shot within the buttocks; and a person and lady, each 19, shot within the neck and ankle, in the identical location. A fourth particular person was shot elsewhere within the Bronx.

Police stated the violence occurred throughout a 90-minute span shortly after the tip of the parade.

The entire victims had been taken to native hospitals the place they continued to be handled for the accidents on Monday. They had been listed as secure.

Gun violence occurred continued into Monday morning with the deadly capturing of two males in Throggs Neck.

The folks behind the violence are nonetheless at massive, and police are asking anybody with data to come back ahead.

The Mayor and Police Commissioner held a information convention on Sunday to announce historic reductions within the variety of shootings throughout the 5 boroughs.

They highlighted the NYPD’s elimination of three,000 unlawful weapons taken off the streets within the first half of the 12 months.

“We’re on the lowest variety of capturing incidents and the bottom variety of capturing victims ever recorded in New York Metropolis,” Police Commissioner Jessica tisch stated.

However on the streets of the Bronx, the Mayor’s eye-opening info and the folks’s daily experiences characterize two very totally different realities.

“The issues that he’s saying will not be true. There’s extra violence, there’s extra weapons in these streets than ever,” Bronx resident Denise Scott stated.

Of their eyes, crime is simply as unhealthy because it was years and many years in the past.

“I do not imagine that there are that many variations from now in comparison with then in the case of the best way that crime happens,” Cordroy Charles stated.

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