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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“That was a non explanation.”
Tough crap. Get a life.
Wow. Does this mean you believe I should be shot too?
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.
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I have an old (about 74 years) Chicago story in this same vein with a Great Dane, but no guns. Before my parents and I moved to a Chicago south suburb in 1949 we lived at 82nd and Drexel, which is now in the middle of Chicago’s free fire zone, but was entirely different at the time, with no appreciable crime. There was a nice little, mostly pedestrian, shopping area near our four room apartment. My dad took me for a walk on one nice Summer night and we met a guy walking his Great Dane, a total monster to me at the tender age of 3. Nevertheless, dad and I approached the two, I got permission to pet the beast and, already being a Dog Person, immediately fell in love with it, so much that I asked dad if we could have one. Being somewhat taken aback, he explained to me the difficult logistics of Great Danes and 4 room apartments. Now I happily live on two semi-rural acres in E TN, in a gun saturated area where we’ve had no gun crimes in over 31 years, and I have two big dogs, one of them a Great Dane. Sadly, there’s almost no way a 3 year old boy living at 82nd and Drexel in Chicago today could have the same kind of experience I did.
Find someone else to bait, or get some help. You’re wasting your time with me.
think NYC is going to produce a LOT more votes for the Republican candidate in this Presidential election, ...”
Ditto, been thinking the same thing.
I read on another FB page the husband and wife are far left liberals and had pictures of them holding signs to defund the police and were regular blm protestors
If real this info will come out.
Yep, very sad. Cities could be GREAT PLACES, and NYC was so good, just recently, that I used to visit relatives and friends there, and never worried about my safety. Not no more!
One of the more recent developments is the media now SIDING with these city governments to SPIKE STORIES that make the cities look bad, and hence unsuspecting people often go ‘downtown’ to enjoy their city, but having NO CLUE as to the level of danger they’re putting themselves in.
I am sorry to hear about this. I guess trendy liberals are finding out why their parents and grandparents fled in the first place.
to be expected in a state where arrested criminals are ALWAYS released without having to post bail ...
Culture? Yes, but what does that really mean? I love the Metropolitan Museum, but it's not like I would go there every other day. I love good restaurants, but I don't want to eat out every night, and NYC isn't the only place in the world with good restaurants. If you like Opera or the symphony, you can have your fill there, but most people don't go weekly to the Opera or symphony. If you like sports, you have to either watch the Knicks stink up the Garden, or you have to commute to the stadiums that are all outside of Manhattan. Art? Yes, but the major collections don't change that much, with the exception of traveling collections etc. (which, because they are ‘traveling’, you can see at a lot of places).
Anyway, I'd rather go for a hike in nature than dodge cars crossing Manhattan streets.
I grew up about 5-6 blocks away from where this happened. Woodruff Avenue between Flatbush and Ocean Avenues has been a no-go zone since the early 1980s. No amount of gentrification will ever change that. Even as the neighborhood got safer post-Giuliani, there have been gangs fighting over that 2-block stretch (and the ability to control the drug trade) for as long as I’ve been alive. It’s horrible to read this (and disgusting that I have to read about it in a foreign newspaper) but this guy was clearly in the wrong place at the wrong time. The gangs change but problems remain the same.
MJ
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