The questions are many after a new deadly shooting in New York.
Thursday evening, shortly before 8 p.m., gunshots were reported to police in the Brooklyn neighborhood.
When the officers arrive on the scene, they can only see the presence of a parked vehicle with three occupants.
“In the passenger seat was a 12-year-old boy who had been shot multiple times.
He died on the spot,” said Inspector Michael Kemper, referring to a “terrible incident”.
He added that a 20-year-old woman, sitting in the driver's seat, had also been shot several times, was taken to hospital for surgery and "expected to survive".
Finally, an eight-year-old girl in the back seat was unharmed.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the victims had parked their car to buy food when "shots were fired which went through the vehicle", added Michael Kemper, but without saying if the victims had been targeted or had been hit by stray bullets.
The spread of guns pointed at
Present in front of the press, the mayor of New York Eric Adams, a former African-American police officer, wondered: “What happens to people sitting in their cars and being shot?
When are we going to stop fighting for the innocents in this town?
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The Democratic mayor took office in January on an agenda to tackle crime, recidivism and the illegal spread of guns in New York, a megacity of nearly nine million people whose crime statistics and Crimes, especially with firearms, have risen sharply since 2020. “As long as we have firearms in a system that encourages recidivism, we will continue to have crime scenes like this,” he laments. .
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