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No fewer than 8 persons were wounded in a shooting incidence on Monday at a gathering in Harlem, which left a man dead, The Associated Press quoted New York City police to have said.
Officers
reportedly responded at about 12:40 a.m. to reports of a shooting on a footpath
along the FDR Drive and found five people shot, police said, citing preliminary
information, according to The Associated Press.
The wounded
were taken to hospital for treatment. Police said a 21-year-old man was
pronounced dead at the hospital and wounded included six other males and two
females.
“This
Father’s Day weekend is a weekend where people were supposed to be able to
enjoy themselves with their families,” Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said
at a news conference, according to The Associated Press.
The identity
of the shooter has not been released and motives are not clear but the New York
Police said it is investigating the incidence, adding that it recovered a gun
from the scene.
Gun violence
are down 11% this year in New York City while murders are down 12% but are
still at their second-highest level since 2012, according To the Associated
Press.