Posted on 07/09/2023 9:24:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A man used a motorized scooter to get from victim to victim in a New York City shooting spree on Saturday that ended with one dead, three injured and a suspect in custody, police said.
The seemingly random attacks in Brooklyn and Queens started at 11:10 a.m., police said, and officially ended exactly two hours later with a suspect arrested in the latter borough, police said.
The man, identified only as a 25-year-old with a previous arrest, had a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun with an extended magazine and an "illegal" scooter without plates, New York Police First Deputy Commissioner Edward Caban said at a news conference.
The suspect has not been responsive to detectives and appears to suffer from emotional or mental issues, police sources said. It's not clear if he's been evaluated by a mental health professional, however.
The victim of the first attack was described as a 21-year-old man shot from behind in Brooklyn and expected to survive, Assistant Chief Joseph Kenny said at the news conference.
Seventeen minutes later, an 87-year-old man was shot in the back roughly three miles away, in Queens, police said. He was rushed to a hospital where he died, they said.
"The perpetrator was described as a male on a scooter firing at a nail salon on Jamaica Avenue," Kenny said.
At nearly the same location, but in a separate attack, a shot was fired, but no one was struck, police said. "Numerous witnesses described the male on a scooter randomly firing at a group of people that was standing on the corner," the assistant chief said.
Less than a mile away, also in Queens, a 44-year-old man standing on a street corner was shot in the face, police said. He was hospitalized in critical condition.
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“The man, identified only as a 25-year-old with a previous arrest”
“The man, identified only as a 25-year-old with a previous arrest, had a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun with an extended magazine and an “illegal” scooter without plates”
It’s a shame he was shooting and killing people, but the only real chance of conviction in NYC now is breaking the motor vehicle laws. So I expect him to face a hefty fine for driving an “illegal scooter”.
Another Negro.
Vespa?
Black man on scooter shoots white people seemingly at random in New York, kills one, injures 3
‘A’ previous arrest? Singular? I doubt it. There’s probably twenty-odd arrests while as a juvenile, and those records were locked away.
In other words, the creep will not be punished
for murder and attempted murder.
I heard the misfits in the media called him a Hispanic. Then I saw the pic...lol
The man killed was an 86 y.o. Pakistani.
Abreu is a Portuguese so perhaps Brazilian or Cape Verde mixed race. Legal resident or illegal immugrant?
Portuguese name.
“Male on a scooter” how weak and woke.
the mentally ill are not supposed to have guns....I guess they don’t follow the laws, them and the criminals.
And where the blazes is “Tish James’s” investigation of Warren Wilhelm Jr. (aka “Bill DeBlasio) and Chirlaine McCray and their theft of $1 Billion in Taxpayer Dollars for Chirlaine’s “Mental Health Initiative? Oh, that’s right, Demoncrats.
RE: The perpetrator was described as a male on a scooter
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That specific a description was like giving his name, address, email and social security number to the public at large.
Unless he stopped and got off his scooter. Then it’s “a male.” Still pretty good.
Nope. Not a Vespa.
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