Seven people — including a 12-year-old girl struck by a stray bullet — were wounded in a pair of Bronx shootings just a mile apart, police said Monday.
The bloodshed began when a barrage of bullets was fired at a group of people on Eastburn Ave. and E. 175th St. in Mount Hope around 9:45 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
Bullets struck the 12-year-old girl in the shoulder, a 35-year-old woman in the foot and a 23-year-old man in the thigh.
Medics rushed all three victims to St. Barnabas Hospital, where they are expected to recover.
Around the same time, a 22-year-old man hobbled into BronxCare Health System with a gunshot wound to his right foot. It was later determined he, too, was wounded on Eastburn Ave.
The gunman ran off and has not been caught.
“Everything happened so fast,” Maria Toribio, who was shot in the foot, told the Daily News.
“I was in the bodega here, and I was with my friend. I was buying a sandwich for my son and for my friend’s daughter. When I heard the first shot, I thought it was a firework. But they shot twice more, and I saw that people were running.”
Toribio said that if she had not reacted so fast, her friend’s 12-year-old daughter would have been killed. She couldn’t save the girl from getting shot.
“She was yelling, ‘They killed me! They killed me!’ with her arm up,” Toribio recounted. “She was in shock in the middle of the shooting. When I saw her, I grabbed her and pushed her, and we started running. And that’s when they shot me. If I hadn’t pushed her out of there, she would have been dead.”
Toribio, who has lived in the building for eight years, said troublemakers are always hanging out front.
“There are always men right in front of our building’s entrance,” she said. “They’re always there. There are always many. They don’t live around here, I don’t know any of them. They’re there selling drugs and marijuana. They do it publicly. I always see them doing that. We call 311, but no one cares.”
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