A 20-year-old man is recovering in the hospital after police say he was shot Thursday morning just steps from a Bronx children\u2019s center.<\/p>\n
The shooting happened around 11:30 a.m. on Castle Hill Avenue, near the Castle Houses and the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club.<\/p>\n
Neighbors say they heard multiple gunshots ring out in the area.<\/p>\n
The shooting happened just feet from the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, where more than a dozen children were inside at the time, according to Jeanette Salcedo, an engagement coordinator with the Castle Hill Office of Neighborhood Safety.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy brain is still not completely understanding what happened,\u201d Salcedo said.<\/p>\n
Parents and community leaders say the shooting is especially unsettling because of how close it happened to children.<\/p>\n
\u201cBullets don\u2019t have a name when they start going off,\u201d Salcedo said.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
Despite Thursday\u2019s shooting, NYPD data shows shooting incidents in the Castle Hill area are down more than 66% over the last 28 days.<\/p>\n
Salcedo says she hopes the violence does not escalate.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a little uncomfortable, a little unnerving, but hopefully we can get it settled down before anything else happens,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Police are searching for two masked men who were last seen driving away on a lime-green scooter.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old man is recovering in the hospital after police say he was shot Thursday morning just steps…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-320844","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\/320844","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=320844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}