NEW YORK, NY – A dispute between two groups of men in Upper Manhattan near Highbridge Park turned into an armed standoff as the men drew their guns at each other. One man fired shots, missing his target but hitting an innocent bystander across the street.
At 7:05 pm, officers from the 46th precinct responded to a shooting at a Manhattan grocery store on 188th Street between Crescent and the Grand Concourse.
When officers arrived on the scene, they found a 61-year-old woman bleeding heavily from a gunshot wound in her back. Officers requested EMS and performed CPR, but she later died at St. Barnabas Hospital.
Police said the victim was an innocent bystander, just walking down the street at the time of the shooting.
New York City Police Commi Keechant Sewell said no expense would be spared in finding the suspects.
“This is not New York, and this is not just the way it is,” Sewell said. “This is unacceptable. We are absolutely focused on curbing the violence in the city.”