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.


A shooting on the Upper West Side on Tuesday morning resulted in the injury of one teenager.
Police said Tuesday afternoon’s shooting on the Upper East Side may be linked to an earlier shooting that closed two high schools on the Upper West Side.
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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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