Posted on 08/22/2020 8:52:58 AM PDT by rickmichaels
An innocent bystander who was shot in broad daylight in Brooklyn on Wednesday will likely never walk again after a bullet struck his spine while he walked with his wife to buy toothpaste from a nearby store.
The tragic shooting is one of several incidents of gun violence in New York City, where homicides surged by 29 per cent to 244 from January 1 to August 2 from the same period last year.
The five boroughs have also seen an 84.6 per cent rise in shooting victims to 1,017 during those dates compared with the same period in 2019, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Sam Metcalfe, 33, survived the shooting while an 18-year-old man, Malcolm Amede, died near the intersection of Ocean and Woodruff avenues in Flatbush - just south of Prospect Park.
Amede, a suspected gang member, was believed to be the shooter’s intended target.
A GoFundMe account started to help Metcalfe and his wife, Sabrina, described how the tragic events unfolded.
‘On Wednesday, August 19, 2020, Sabrina and her husband Sam left their Brooklyn apartment to go to the store and get some toothpaste,’ the organizer of the crowdfunding effort, Krysta Zagorski, wrote.
‘She told him he didn’t need to come but he wanted to hold the umbrella for her because it was raining and the umbrella was broken.
‘While crossing an intersection less than five minutes from their building, shots rang out and Sam was hit.
‘The intended victim (not Sam) was also shot multiple times and died as a result.’
Zagorski continued: ‘Almost immediately, Sam couldn’t feel his legs. We now know that the bullet hit his kidney and stopped when it hit his spine.
‘They removed his kidney but his condition is too fragile to attempt to remove the bullet just yet.
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The author means “human violence.”
Subhuman violence.
This is heartbreaking. But in many big cites it is (or soon will be) the new normal.
Unpossible. Guns are nearly,virtually disallowed in NYC.
Stray bullets? As in peaceful protesting bullets?
Can Americans protest with bullets?
As long as they wear masks you say?
Actually, I pray for the couple and I won’t hold them responsible. You see, it’s Rudy’s fault. He turned NYC into a place where one could safely walk the streets and this young couple had never experienced the neighborhoods where “stray” bullets had once been the norm.
Back in the early 80s visiting a relative South of Houston Street (SOHO) before it was trendy, about 6 blocks from the Village, I was not allowed to go out and walk by myself anywhere without being accompanied by residents who were ‘known’. Once while walking towards the Village, a block of concrete exploded behind us. Someone from a floor above had discharged a handgun onto the sidewalk. I was told to walk calmly but pick up the pace.
Wow. Speechless.
Happy couple...Hope everything turns out great for them....
ALL DEMON-RAT governors, senators, mayors and congressional members have BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS and should be arrested from r allowing this rioting, race baiting and defunding of the police. Oh, and I forgot the thousands of criminals they sprung from prison and for not allowing our President to help with these guerrilla warfare commies who are destroying cities, burning people’s businesses and BLOCKING TRAFFIC... including pulling People from theirvehicles and beating them unconscious!
They are complicit and are condoning it.
They all need to be arrested!
Absolutely tragic.
Just rolled thru that neighborhood twice last week. Two more years with this mayor. Good luck, NY.
Lucy and Desi lookalikes!!
Glad you made it through, safely.
The last name tells me they were in or near Greenpoint, perhaps. Almost 30 years ago, I was visiting a family in Brooklyn, and their 12 year old boy was robbed of his new bike at knifepoint in an area between Williamsburg and Greenpoint. The area gentrified since then, but appears to be returning to default.
“Husband is left paralyzed after being hit by stray bullet when he insisted on walking to the store with his new wife to hold her umbrella in gentrified Brooklyn”
Obviously don’t know anything more about this couple, but MANY ‘woke’ people live in gentrified areas of ‘the city’ to ‘send a message’ to others. In most cities, that means you’re holed up in an apartment complex, needing to drive if you even want to go to a drug store 2 blocks away. But in NYC, they did have a brief period where people were safe to be outside, at least in certain areas (this being one of them). But now that’s history.
these horror stories of Wilhelm Destroyer of NYCity
are NEVER PUBLISHED in the USA.
this is from the UK.
in the USA, the MSM lies and says: “everything is
peaceful and mostly perfect.”
Glad you made it through, safely”””
I do a lot of work in NY but I’m starting to wonder if it’s worth it...
The Unit that used to tamp down gunpunk activity doesn’t roll anymore. Not woke enough or something.
My sympathies to the victim.
However, the probability that this couple is woke is very high, given where they live.
People need to learn the hard way to vote differently. Unfortunately, this is the human condition.
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