NEW YORK, NY – Two innocent victims were shot inside a New York City taxi cab, unintended targets of a gunman who opened fire into a crowd of people on West 37th Street in Manhatten early Saturday morning.
The shooting took place two blocks north of Penn Station when an unknown male opened fire on a crowd of people in front of 265 West 37th Street, according to the New York City Police Department. Instead, two unintended victims in the back of a taxi cab were struck.
Luckily, medical student Sammy Shelbaya was also in the cab and began tending to his friend’s bullet wounds. Then he realized he had also been hit. Shelbaya said after tending to his friend, he noticed the blood kept coming, before realizing he was also shot.
They were both treated at Bellvue Hospital. The gunman fled south on 8th Avenue, police said.