Harlem Hospital<\/a>. He is expected to recover.<\/p>\nThe victim was walking alone when a group of three or four young men, all wearing masks, appeared and shouted out a name, prompting the victim to turn around and start running in the opposite direction, said a 38-year-old woman who witnessed the scene but asked not to be identified.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey called the other boy\u2019s name, and when they called his name he responded. One young man approached him, pulled out a weapon, fired, and as he was trying to run away, he fell,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw him get hit in the back, and I went to do triage,\u201d said the witness, a former nurse. \u201cI called 911. Hopefully he\u2019s okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
The wound \u201cwasn\u2019t bleeding a lot, but it was close to the spine,\u201d said the witness, who stayed with the victim until the ambulance arrived. \u201cHe was conscious. He was okay. I told him to relax and not to move and to stay down, and I assessed the wound,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The witness, who was working on a construction job nearby, said she quit nursing after eight years because it was too traumatic. The shooting made her think about her own child, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m still in shock, because I had just checked my cameras in my house and my 16 year old is at home, washing the dishes for me,\u201d she said. \u201cSo, yeah. I cried a little bit and got back to work.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the victim collapsed, the group dispersed, the witness said.<\/p>\n
Police are investigating the shooting, which may be connected to an earlier shooting in the same area in which no one was hurt, a source told The News.<\/p>\n
Cops could not immediately confirm if the two incidents were related, or provide information about a possible earlier shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old Bronx boy was shot in the back while trying to run away from a group of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,19695,9,24,63,2393,129,131,130,19696],"class_list":["post-32793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-gunshot-wound","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-south-bronx","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-the-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793","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=32793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}