A teenager ran inside his school on the Upper West Side after he was shot a couple of blocks away, an incident police believe is connected to at least two other Manhattan shootings on Tuesday.
The incident reportedly started as a dispute between four or five teen males just before 10 a.m. on the corner of West 68th and Amsterdam.According to police, the 17-year-old was shot multiple times. The suspect then took off."I looked out my window and people were running from 68th down to 67th, all the way down the street. There was definitely a lot of commotion," a man who heard the gunshots said.
Authorities said the teen ran about two blocks into Martin Luther King Jr. High School where he was apparently a student. The school was placed on lockdown and 911 was called.The NYPD provided an update Tuesday afternoon on the Upper West Side shooting.Police responded quickly to both scenes.The teen was taken to a hospital with multiple gunshot wounds. Police said he is out of surgery. Detectives will speak to him once he recovers a bit.
A suspect, a 19-year-old male, was apprehended in a yellow taxi about one block away from the scene. A firearm was also recovered, police said.According to police, the suspect has three prior arrests – two for narcotic sales this year, and one indictment for a 2021 robbery with a firearm. He is out on bail.The shooting is one of several incidents that happened in northern Manhattan on Tuesday.
Police are also investigating an incident at 125th Street and Madison Avenue in Harlem where a 16-year-old boy and a 27-year-old man were both shot in the leg. Police say they believe the 16-year-old was the intended target, while the 27-year-old was an innocent bystander.Police are investigating the incidents as possibly connected.
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