NEW YORK, NY – Detectives with the NYPD’s 25th Precinct have identified a suspect wanted for a shooting that injured a 41-year-old woman on Wednesday.
Police said 35-year-old Avery Dunning of 60 East 135th Street is wanted in connection to the shooting which sent the woman to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.
The shooting occurred Wednesday at around 8:25 am inside the Lincoln Houses, NYCHA project.
“A 41-year-old female building resident was engaged in a dispute with the individual,” the NYPD said today. “The individual displayed a firearm and discharged it at the victim, striking the victim multiple times about the body.”
Dunning fled the scene after the shooting. The woman was taken to Harlem Hospital with gunshot wounds to the stomach, thigh and head. She is listed in critical condition.
Dunning is currently a fugitive at-large and is considered armed and dangerous.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on Twitter @NYPDTips.