{"id":54050,"date":"2025-11-27T13:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54050\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:34:07","slug":"retiree-64-hit-by-stray-bullet-during-broad-daylight-nyc-shootout-its-happening-too-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/54050\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiree, 64, hit by stray bullet during broad daylight NYC shootout: &#8216;It&#8217;s happening too often&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 64-year-old retiree out to pick up a Thanksgiving turkey was struck by a stray bullet during a broad daylight Manhattan shootout \u2014 with the slug now lodged dangerously close to her spine.<\/p>\n<p>Francisca Nunez was walking at West 204th Street and Broadway at 4:18 p.m. Monday when a gang of teen hoodlums opened fire, striking her in the buttocks, with the punks still on the loose, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Now Nunez, who was planning to return home to the Dominican Republic next month, is at Harlem Hospital, where doctors have been unable to remove the bullet, longtime friend Jose Louis said.<\/p>\n<p>Francisca Nunez, 64, was walking on West 204th Street on Monday afternoon when she was struck by a stray bullet.  Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m angry,\u201d Louis, who has known Nunez for 30 years, told The Post Wednesday. \u201cThey could have killed my friend. She could have got shot in the head, she could have got shot in the chest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s sad that it happened,\u201d he said. \u201cNo matter what day or time, but it\u2019s even sadder because it happened so close to Thanksgiving. Everybody is celebrating Thanksgiving but she\u2019s going to be in the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police said at least a half-dozen suspects were behind the shooting, but it is unclear what sparked it and who was being targeted when the retiree was accidentally hit instead.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/innocent-bystander-shot-inwood-manhattan-speaks-harlem-hospital-bed-bullet-leg\/18208854\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told WABC Eyewitness News <\/a>that the teens were arguing when one pulled a knife before the shots rang out, knocking her to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Francisca Nunez, 64, told WABC she felt the \u201cheat\u201d from the bullet that hit her on Monday, then saw the blood. ABC7NY<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD said at least a half-dozen suspects got into a scuffle when shots rang out and hit a bystander in Harlem. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>She told the outlet she felt \u201cheat\u201d from the bullet, then saw her blood gushing out.<\/p>\n<p>Cops have launched a manhunt for the crew but have not announced any arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez retired to the Dominican Republic but came back to New York for a visit about seven months ago and was planning to return home next month, Louis said. <\/p>\n<p>Jose Louis, a friend of Francisca Nunez, said the bullet that hit her lodged dangerously close to her spine.  Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>He said he believed Nunez was in the area to take advantage of turkeys and other Thanksgiving trimmings that were being donated in the neighborhood when she was hit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese streets around here are very bad,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s happening too often in this neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho are you looking for?\u201d Louis said, referring to the gunmen. \u201cHow did you get the gun? Why are you carrying a knife? Why are you carrying a gun? I have too many questions to ask them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 64-year-old retiree out to pick up a Thanksgiving turkey was struck by a stray bullet during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[469,75,57,9,56,63,65,64,103,104,3980,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-54050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-harlem","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-nypd","17":"tag-police","18":"tag-shootings","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54050","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=54050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}