A 20-year-old man was shot near a Boys & Girls Club in the Bronx on Thursday, sending children and others nearby scrambling for safety as gunfire erupted in broad daylight.<\/p>\n
Police responded to the area of Castle Hill Avenue around noon and found the man with a gunshot wound to his torso. He was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Jacobi in stable condition.<\/p>\n
Police are looking for two masked suspects who fled the scene on scooters. One was wearing a black hoodie and the other was wearing a gray hoodie, according to police.<\/p>\n
Calena, who did not provide her last name, said the shooting was especially disturbing because it happened so close to the Boys & Girls Club.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a Boys & Girls Club. This is where kids go. That’s crazy. Kids come here to feel safe, and nobody can feel safe anymore in the Bronx,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Most residents in the area did not want to speak on camera, citing concerns for their safety. Off camera, residents described a frightening scene as shots rang out near the club in the middle of the day.<\/p>\n
One man said children who were outside the Boys & Girls Club ran for cover. A woman across the street said she saw the victim run into the clubhouse after he was shot.<\/p>\n
The woman said she then saw a large group of young people try to chase the victim. She said staff at the Boys & Girls Club locked the doors to keep everyone inside.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like this is absolutely terrible what’s happening now. A lot of people is fighting. This is the community now. I’m not perfect myself, but this is somebody’s life. You know, anybody can pass away. I lost my cousins and brothers through shootings, so I don\u2019t like to hear anything like this,\u201d said Calena.<\/p>\n
The Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club was contacted for comment but did not respond.<\/p>\n
The NYPD said the investigation remains ongoing. NY1 asked police whether they believe the shooting was gang-related but did not receive a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old man was shot near a Boys & Girls Club in the Bronx on Thursday, sending children…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,9,24,11,10,12,1174,129,27,200],"class_list":["post-321159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-top-stories","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-olivia-leach","tag-the-bronx","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321159","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=321159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}