5-Year-Old Shot In The Bronx

A 5-year-old boy accompanying his mother to the deli was shot in the leg in the Bronx. The pair, who just bought milk, were walking on Allerton Avenue at 10 p.m. and apparently got caught in gang crossfire.

A witness told the Post, "Two groups... kids with guns, have been going at it for a week... And what happens? A 5-year-old gets shot." According to the witness, "one of the factions was kids from the neighborhood, the other from the Pelham Parkway Houses."

The cops say that the boy, who is in serious but stable condition at Jacobi Medical Center, was not the target. There have been no arrests, but the investigation is continuing.

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By Jen Chung in News on July 29, 2011 9:10 AM

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task

the 5 year Old boy was not the Target say the cops? Real Detective work in the BX keepin us safe

felixthecat

Lol

TimSPC

They've been going at it a week? You'd think the cops would step up eventually.

FU Boy

Get well soon, little guy.

schmeep

Why don't the actual gang members ever get shot? Are they firing warning shots deliberately to miss other gang members, only to mostly hit bystanders?

FU Boy

A) They're terrible shots
B) They're holding the guns sideways and have no reference for aiming
C) They're actually cowards and don't really want to hurt anyone
D) All of the above

economatronic

A and B are particularly true I think. I was held up at gunpoint by a group of teenagers a couple years ago, and one of them had a type of gun I had very recently learned to shoot with family Idaho (ah, hillbilly life), and let me tell you, if he hadn't been a foot away from me, I wouldn't have been that scared. He had defnitely never actually fired that gun before, and certainly couldn't have hit a target, even a standing target, more than 10 feet away.