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[Update] 8-Year-Old Wounded In Bike-By Bronx Shooting
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Ben Yakas
Published Feb 22, 2012
Modified Feb 22, 2012
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[Video Update Below]
An 8-year-old was shot in the shoulder last night by a gunman on a bike in the Bronx. The boy, whose name hasn't been released, was standing with a group in front of Papa Yala’s Deli on Randall Ave. near St. Lawrence Ave. in Soundview just before 8 p.m. Police believe the boy was not the intended target of the shooter, who rode past on a bike and shot into the crowd. “Two boys were fighting. The other boy didn’t want to fight so one of them pulled out a gun,” a witness told the Daily News. “The next thing you know a boy was shot outside the store.”
The gunman rode up on the bicycle and shot the boy once in the shoulder, then hightailed it; there were two men sitting inside the bodega, and police believe one of them was the intended target. “The bicyclist had a hood. He went by really fast and took off after the one shot,” witness Samuel Calcano told the Post. The boy was taken to Jacobi Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries. "There's always gun shots on this block. You have to keep your kids locked up now. They are on vacation, they can't enjoy the good weather we are going to have. Just keep them in the house. It's sad for them," one Soundview resident told NY1.
Update: Below, check out surveillance video of the boy being shot.
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