A 50-year-old man is expected to recover after police say he was shot in the leg Wednesday afternoon in Clason Point, before running into a nearby deli pleading for help.<\/p>\n
The shooting happened around 3:45 p.m. outside a deli at the corner of Randall and Saint Lawrence avenues, according to the NYPD. Police said the victim suffered a gunshot wound to his leg and was taken to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition.<\/p>\n
The deli owner, Ali Ashmali, said the man had been inside his store just minutes before the shooting, buying a bag of chips.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe walked in, he said, \u2018Please call the cops. Close the store,\u2019\u201d Ashmali recalled.<\/p>\n
At first, Ashmali said he mistook the sound of the gunfire for fireworks. He later realized the customer had been shot after seeing him in the back of the store, covered in blood.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been here 20 years and never had any problem, especially with him,\u201d Ashmali said. \u201cNever had a problem. I know everybody. Like I said, he\u2019s respectful. Humble. He\u2019s a good guy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police recovered three shell casings on the surrounding corners as detectives searched for evidence.<\/p>\n
Ashmali said he turned over surveillance footage from his property to investigators, but the camera that may have captured the shooting was not working.<\/p>\n
\u201cI called the tech repair guy to come and fix it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ashmali said the technician had been scheduled to repair the camera days earlier, but never arrived.<\/p>\n
Investigators were also following up on reports from neighbors who told police they saw a group of people on scooters leaving the area after the shooting. Police have not confirmed whether those individuals are connected to the case or released any suspect information.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 50-year-old man is expected to recover after police say he was shot in the leg Wednesday afternoon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-278444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}