Results tagged “shootings”

According to the Army, seven people were killed and 20 were wounded in two shooting at an army base in Fort Hood, TX. The AP reports, "An Army spokesman at the Pentagon says the shootings began about 1:30 p.m. Thursday at a personnel and medical processing center at Fort Hood. The spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Nathan Banks, says two shooters were apparently involved. There is no word yet on who they were, nor on identities of the dead. He says it is too soon to tell whether there is any link to battle stress or repeated deployments."

A used car dealer was fatally shot by three men attempting to rob his store on Saturday night in Brooklyn. The Daily News reports the suspects were in the store earlier in the day, putting a deposit down on a car, and when they came back around 6:30 p.m., they demanded money, which 35-year-old Bobby Carnival (pictured) refused to hand over. Carnival, the married father of two, "was wrestling with one gunman in the office of his Cars on Utica lot when another suspect shot him in the chest." Saturday night. Another person was also wounded in the shooting. And a 15-year-old Brooklyn boy, Troy Zapata, was fatally shot in the back as he tried to flee gunfire in a Bronx housing project early Sunday. The News describes the Adams House as "gritty"

     

Reader Yojimbot offers some photographs and perspective on the Sunday afternoon shooting where two 63-year-old women were injured on St. Nicholas Avenue near West 113th Street. On his blog Harlem Hybrid, he writes, "This is the 4th mass shooting of the Summer of '08, and it is only by the Grace of God, that no one has been killed yet as a result. It was this latest round, which took place on Sunday at 2pm in the afternoon, which was the most disturbing. The block was full of pedestrians and children, and the end result was that two elderly women were caught in the crossfire."

A day after police officers fatally shot a man who reportedly fired at them, off-duty law enforcement officers used their weapons to fire upon armed men.

Just a day after Al Sharpton joined with Critical Mass in Union Square to protest police harassment of cycling protesters, he was leading a march in Harlem decrying youth violence. The march was instigated by the Memorial Day shooting of 7 young people following a holiday basketball tournament. Stemming from an ongoing dispute between two groups of kids, gunshots rang out along Lenox Ave. over a stretch of 10 blocks.

Harlem residents spoke out against the Monday night violence that left 10 people injured. Perfect Peace Ministry's Reverend Vernon William urged the community to come together, "We need to be out here in numbers calling for peace in our community. This type of going on, this type of saying it's alright for people to shoot one another, it's just turned another eye. People are desensitized to the issues of the community. It's just wrong. We cannot just stand on the periphery and just pontificate; we must get involved."

Late last night, a shooter (or possibly shooters) opened fire and shot at least seven people in Harlem. The gunfire started at Marcus Garvey Park at West 124th Street and then headed north to West 131st Street.

The NY Times looks at NYPD firearms use between 1996 and 2006, finding that though cops are using their guns less these days, "when they do fire, even at an armed suspect, there is often no one returning fire at the officers. Officers hit their targets roughly 34 percent of the time."

On the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting, NYU officials announced yesterday that the university is "exploring installing an unprecedented security system involving an electronic remote lockdown system that would shut down classrooms and entire buildings" in the event of an emergency.

Separate incidents on Christmas Eve leading into Christmas Day across the city have resulted in five murders and six injuries.