Second teen shot to death outside NYC school in 3 hours as cops investigate gang connections
Two people, including a 16-year-old boy, were hit by bullets in East Harlem Tuesday afternoon in what police say was an outbreak of gun violence linked to the early shooting of a student on the West Side.
The teen and four other Harlem Renaissance High School students were about to have lunch around 1:00 p.m. when three men approached them, and a fight broke out between the two groups at East 129th Street and Madison Avenue, police said.
During the scuffle, bullets flew, hitting the teenager in the leg. A 27-year-old man, an innocent bystander, was also shot in the leg and taken to a Harlem hospital, police said.
Police sources said the violence may have been a retaliation sparked by an earlier shooting that closed two Big Apple high schools on the Upper West Side just three hours earlier.
The 17-year-old high school student was shot at least three times during a fight with other teenagers on Amsterdam Avenue and West 68th Street around 9:50 a.m., and the alleged 19-year-old shooter was later arrested.
The shooting forced two nearby schools – the Maxine Green Imagination High School, which the victim attends, and the LaGuardia High School of Music – to close.
According to police, the injured teenager was taken to the hospital, his condition after the operation is stable.
Police said two incidents and a third shooting at East 105th Street and Park Avenue around 3 p.m. were believed to be linked.
“We’re acting like it’s all connected,” NYPD Patrol Chief John Chell said at a news conference on the Upper East Side.
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