A 12-year-old boy killed by bullets New York City police said in a statement Friday night that he was in a parked car with a girl who was injured and a girl who escaped, police and city officials said.
Police were called to a Brooklyn neighborhood just before 8 p.m. (local time) and as soon as they arrived they saw a car parked on the street with three passengers, explained a New York police inspector, Michael Kember.
“In the passenger seat was a 12-year-old boy who was shot several times. He died on the spot“, Explained the policeman, referring to a” horrible incident “.
Kember added that a 20-year-old woman sitting in the driver’s seat also received multiple bullets and was taken to a hospital where she underwent surgery and “is expected to survive.”
Finally, an 8-year-old girl in the back seat was not injured.
According to the first data of the investigation, the victims had parked their vehicle to buy something to eat when “were shot“, Kember added, without specifying whether the target of the shootings were the victims or whether they were hit by stray bullets.
Speaking to reporters, New York Mayor Eric Adams asked, “What happens when people sitting in their cars are killed by gunfire?”
The Democratic mayor took office in January after being elected with the promise of tackling crime as well as arms trafficking in New York, a city of nine million people where crime is on the rise after 2020.
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