A stray bullet kills a girl and injures others in New York

A 16-year-old girl was killed and two other people were injured Friday in New York after a stray bullet was fired by a gunman in a street, police said.

New York Police Commissioner Kishant Sewell told reporters that the girl was returning from high school in the Bronx with another girl of the same age and a 17-year-old boy.

Sewell added that a man pulled out his pistol in the street and began shooting repeatedly while arguing with another person on the opposite side of a crosswalk.

The shooting injured one of the girls in the chest and the other teenagers in the legs and buttocks, as the three were taken to hospital, but the girl who had been waiting for a "bright future", in the words of the police commissioner, died of her chest injuries.

The police did not make any arrests, but they were able to obtain a video recording of the incident, and they have promised to bring the perpetrators to justice.

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