Startling video released by police Monday captures the moment a gunman opened fire in Times Square, wounding a Marine tourist as bystanders scrambled for safety.
“It’s just an unacceptable state of affairs,” Mayor de Blasio said Monday. “This is a place that is so precious and so important to our city. It has to be safe. We’re going to flood the zone to make sure people feel safe.”
The NYPD will assign 50 more cops to Times Square, he said. That follows the 80 sent there after a 4-year-old girl was shot and wounded nearby on May 8.
Sunday’s shooter held the gun in his right hand even as he fled the scene on Broadway near W. 45th St. outside the Minskoff Theatre about 5:15 p.m. Sunday, the video shows. He has not been caught or identified.
The 21-year-old victim, Samuel Poulin, was hit in the back and is stable condition at Bellevue Hospital.
The latest shooting — part of a yearlong surge in gun violence and just steps away from where a little girl was hit by gunfire last month — was triggered by an argument between two men, possibly street vendors or performers.
NYPD Chief of Department Rodney Harrison says cops will target “aggressive panhandlers” and troublesome street vendors to a level they haven’t in the past.
“We’re going to make sure tourists don’t feel threatened,” he said.
Sunday’s gunman opened fire during what Harrison called a “heated argument.” The bullet ricocheted and struck Poulin, with a relative retrieving the bullet for police.
Poulin, who recently graduated The Citadel, the military college in Charleston, S.C., with a Marine Corps commission, was visiting the city from upstate with his family, including his wife.
On May 8, Skye Martinez, 4, and two adult bystanders were hit by stray bullets after they were caught in the middle of a vendor war between two brothers.
The accused gunman, Farrakhan Muhammad, 31, was later arrested in Florida.
Through Sunday, 826 people have been shot in the city so far this year, 37% more than the 606 victims during the same period last year. That has contributed to a 12% jump in homicides, with 212 slayings citywide this year compared to 189 by this last year.
Cops are asking the public’s help identifying the gunman in Sunday’s shooting.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
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he will get off with a warning.
Black males make up about 6% of the U.S. population but every year commit ~53% of all the murders and ~55% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year in the U.S. there are ~8,600 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 94% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
Now I am not a rocket scientist, but even I can see that if Black males make up about 6% of the U.S. population but every year commit ~53% of all murders in the U.S. this is a serious problem with one Negro race.
over 19,000 people killed in shootings in 2020 and if Negroes were responsible for 53% of those murders.
Then Negroes killed 10,070 people in year 2020.
These Dishonorable liberal Democrat phony racist crusades have little or nothing to do with protecting the sensitivities of Black Americans and everything to do with the Democrats setting themselves up as their saviors. Their practice of patronizing groups cannot yield to the facts that the Democrat Party has a long history of racial discrimination. For their cause is not defending the oppressed or the offended but about making themselves look wonderful with their latest destructive political Con.
This is so true – It is not the white race causing all the violence, it is the black race and the Media who always take their side and the Democrat Party who side with the black population, giving them more and more power to keep it up
AND its the leftist DA’s, AG’s and politicians, WHO KEEP LETTING these crooks go, time after time that is the problem!
Nothing will happen to him because with the Democrats in charge – blacks rule – Any time a black person gets caught – it’s the police’s fault that this little saint got caught! Then they sue and get millions – and the Media once again takes their side and we get the Default the Police mob getting heard on prime time TV
That assumes this trash, will even get ARRESTED…
Just another Democrat party “Lord of the Flies” entitlement inspired socially educated city destroyer, where the will of the “I” takes precedent over the security of “THE PEOPLE.” Let me guess,,,,he was under the influence of the illegal drugs Joe and Kamala have recently reopened the border flood gates to come in? The stronger the will to defund the police, the greater the criminal mindset and intent to take over your lives. He who empowers the criminals, is one, whether he holds a tax gun or a real gun to your head to steal your life force in the form of personal property earned that protects you, or the red stuff that flows in your veins that feeds your life.
Welcome to DeBlasio’s New York !
AND what is the point in “FLooding” the area with cops, WHEN THEY ARE SO NEUTERED in what they can do!
The beat solution is to take away the funds and the protections from these so called leaders. Deblasio along with Cuomo should not be provided any security and those protecting them should not have guns if those guns are what is causing the crime. Also if anything should happen to them the people causing them any harm or if they are robbed should also be given the same no bail, free ride, and cowardly prosecutors that the rest of the population is given.
This is what DeBlabbo’s policies have fomented in NY. I would not go there on a bet. For those leaving the city, do not bring your political beliefs with you, especially .
….if you are coming to Florida.
Unfortunately, as we keep being proven year after year, THESE LEECHES DO NOT leave their insane liberal ideals behind, though, when they flee to conservative lands.. TO THEN CORRUPT and turn into mirrors of the crudholes they left.
This is one of those cities that “control” guns, and how is that working for you New York? The average Joe has all kinds of restrictions put on them with firearms, but the criminal element seems to not have a problem as they don’t comply. But the all knowing, elected officials know best how to combat gun crimes, just take them away from the law biding and that will solve the problem. Right!
A 10 cent bullet has the power of an F-15 to take down tyrants or put into power good men. Just ask Lincoln and JFK about the former and ask the founders about the latter. Guns don’t kill, men of evil intent do when seeking control, or try to play god,,,, and men of good intent do when they and their loved ones are threatened and their goodness comes under attack. Legally take away the guns and only the law abiding will remain defenseless while the lawbreakers remain fully armed. Only are political party of evil criminal intent seeking power above all else would attempt to disarm the law abiding, and release the criminal to dwell among the innocent like ravenous lions on the prowel.
You are sooo wrong! Obviously you either do not reload, or have not bought any bullets in a long time. ;~} Other than that you are 100% correct.
A 10 cent bullet??
Even .22 LR rounds, are not that cheep anymore…
The safety measures should have already been in place. Not just now.
So, if a law was passed that no politician should be provided with security unless all citizens are provided with equal security, what do you think would happen?
IT would be yet another law, these politicians IGNORE.
“We’re going to make sure tourists don’t feel threatened.” – NYPD Chief of Department Rodney Harrison
Wouldn’t it be even better to do something to prevent them from actually being threatened?
How about a “three strikes” law?
Never mind, it’s been done and it worked. No sense reliving history.
AND WHY is it only “Tourists” we must coddle so they don’t feel threatened.. WHY NOT RESIDENTS..
Ya know, the ones who PAY ALL THE damn taxes!
“Unacceptable state of affairs said mayor DeBlasio.” This is the guy who ruined his own police department and turned his city into the largest cesspool in the country. It’s tragic this happened but the mayor’s response is laughable.
Ahh, but since he’s a liberal, ITS NEVER HIS FAULT…
It’s events like this that make it understandable why Democrats have harnessed this source of their black muscle to wage their war against America and try to convolute the source of gun violence in order to sway low information voters. The party of slavery still has control and as long as they can keep blacks dumbed down or intimidated or dependent, the racial divide the left is responsible for will continue to be a critical weapon in their arsenal of America’s destruction.
AND will keep them voting democrat…. THAT IS THE KEY!
History repeating itself with a new generation…Mayor Dinkins (Bob Grant’s “Mens Room Attendant”) was the final straw 40 years ago and it looks as if DeBlasio will follow in the Dinkins footsteps, birds of a feather..
Instead of saying “Startling Video”, they should say “Just another video of shooting in NYC. I doubt anyone is startled anymore.
What gets me, is over the weekend there was mention of TWO shootings in Virgina, both had three kids hit. ONE turned out to be potentially a murder suiciide.
THe other, was a grandma and her three grand kids, shot outside an appartment complex in Richmond..
OTHER THAN one minute on it, late Sat-sunday morning, I’ve seen ABSOLUTELY NOTHING since.. Till i looked it up and found out a newspaper had an article “manhunt for suspects ends, with 3 arrested”.
Which like i suspected, HAD ALL THREE suspects, were black.
ERGO THAT IS WHY it wasn’t mentioned afterwards.