BRONX, New York (WABC) — Three people were shot in the Bronx on Wednesday morning, one fatally, hours before anti-gun violence advocates and community members had planned to gather to denounce the rash of shootings across the borough.
The most recent shootings happened on College Avenue in the Claremont section just after 8:30 a.m.
A 37-year-old man, identified as Ryan Hines, was shot in the chest and killed. A 62-year-old man was shot in the arm, and a 59-year-old victim was shot in the buttocks.
“All I hear is ‘pow, pow, pow, pow, pow!’ I’m wondering what happened – I see my mom dragging because it’s her boyfriend that got shot,” said a witness.
The suspect was taken into custody.
Police sources say an enraged tenant shot and killed the building’s porter, and wounded two others, one of them a neighbor, over some sort of dispute.
A man named Robert said the accused shooter, his friend, has psychiatric issues.
“I know him for over six years. He’s non-violent, but I know that his life was being threatened,” Robert said.
It comes as community members and advocates held a vigil at Haffen Park on Wednesday night, where a shooting claimed the life of one person and injured several others.
Advocates say gun violence continues to plague the borough and is tearing communities apart.
An outbreak of gun violence erupted over an eight-hour span Tuesday in the Bronx, where four separate shootings left two people dead, and another two injured, including an Amazon delivery worker.
That worker, a 31-year-old man, was caught in a crossfire when two individuals began shooting at each other at the corner of Bryant Avenue and East Tremont Avenue in the West Farms section just after 2:30 p.m.
It was the third shooting in the Bronx on Tuesday, coming after two deadly shootings earlier in the day.
There have been at least 20 people shot in the Bronx since last Friday.
The Bronx has about 1.2 million fewer residents compared to Brooklyn, yet the Bronx has more shooting victims so far this year — 222 compared to at least 213. The mayor on Wednesday promised a full mobilization of resources.
“The issue with the Bronx – we’re seeing gangs, young shooters and recidivism,” Mayor Eric Adams said. “That’s a terrible equation.”
On Saturday, police arrested and charged four gunmen for allegedly opening fire at a basketball tournament at Haffen Park. The youngest of the victims is 17-year-old Anthonaya Campbell, who remains in critical condition with a bullet lodged behind her eye.
“We’re using the generation of our young people because of the senseless violence,” said Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark.
Clark attended the vigil for victims of the tournament shooting on Wednesday night. She says she is now zeroing in on gun traffickers who are supplying the youth.
“I need people to tell me how they are getting these guns here in the Bronx,” Clark said. “We don’t have gun makers here in the Bronx, but meanwhile, 13-year-olds are shooting guns… 15-year-olds, 18-year-olds. They have to be getting them from somewhere, they’re not old enough even to purchase them. So, somebody is giving it to them. Those are the cases now that I’m now also focusing on and tracking down as to how the guns are getting here.”
Hospitals in Bronx have been very busy treating shooting victims this month, despite a citywide drop in gun violence in July, and assurances from state and city leaders that the NYPD doesn’t need help right now from the National Guard.
“I don’t see the need for it, at all. We are doing an amazing job,” Adams said. “We know what to do here, and we will continue to do that.”
President Donald Trump has threatened to send National Guard troops, as he has in Washington, D.C., into other cities with Democratic governors and mayors.
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