Posted on 08/31/2025 9:55:59 AM PDT by Angelino97
A teenager and two men shot by a pistol packing, scooter-riding duo in the Bronx were believed to be the targets of the gunfire, a police source said.
The gunmen fired more than a dozen rounds in front of 2540 Marion Avenue near Fordham University around 9:30 p.m. Friday, leaving a 17-year-old shot in the left thigh, a 21-year-old shot in the right knee and a 28-year-old grazed in the back of the head, police and sources said.
The victims were uncooperative and police were scouring for video of the shooting, which unfolded as a birthday party for a 4-year-old girl was being held nearby.
“The kids heard [the shots],” said party organizer Grindl Bose, 61, a retired teacher...
The latest burst of gunfire followed a spate of shootings in the boogie down that prompted Mayor Adams to order 1,000 cops to the borough and call for a summit with gang members at Gracie Mansion.
The mayor’s gang summit proposal came after a deadly Aug. 23 shootout between gang members at a basketball tournament...
“When bullets fly because of gang disputes, it doesn’t stop and pause and say this isn’t a rival gang member,” Adams said during a Thursday news conference about the violence with Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark at his side.
“There’s so much that we want to do and we know it’s not just policing, it is about preventing and reacting,” he continued.
Mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa tore into Mayor Adams’ summit idea.
“He wants to sit down with trigger pullers,” Sliwa charged at a news conference outside the mayor’s Upper East Side home Saturday.
“He not only wants to sit with gangbangers in the People’s House but trigger pullers who have shot victims or killed victims. He has lost his mind.”
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Meeting with ‘gang leaders’... Those responsible for the murders and mayhem going on in your community, is never a good idea. Arresting them is a better idea.
That's kind of like having the highest IQ on the short bus.
Is Luther invited? If he is, Cyrus better watch out.
He’s just copying Barack’s beer summit gag.
Currently, that is true, with an August poll from Tulchin Research showing Sliwa at 17% and Adams at 9%.
That said, both men still trail distantly from Mamdani at 42% and Cuomo at 26%.
Both Sliwa and Adams would be better off putting their pride aside, quitting the race and backing Cuomo. As much as I dislike the former Governor, he stands the best chance of knocking this Communist, Shariah supporting Muslim off the very top of the race.
We the public still have yet to discover whether he, Mamdani is a Shia or Sunni Muslim. The two groups are often in conflict, accusing the other of not worshipping ‘properly’
“Gang summit”????
They should organize a meeting and then surround them and arrest them
Maybe the gang leaders will dress like Zelenskyy when they meet the mayor.
If Sliwa just keeps talking like this and hangs his red beret in the closet he just might win this thing.
He's a politician so wouldn't that mean that he is a "whatever works best at the moment" ?
Probably, it would be rather flexible, at least until he actually got elected into office, then, all those purity police and aggressive ‘reminders’ would start their monitoring and demands.
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