Chief of Patrol John Chell addresses reporters on July 11, 2023 after a mass shooting at a Bronx park left four people injured.
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Bronx detectives are busy hunting down the suspects behind a mass shooting Tuesday at a public park that left four people – including two young brothers, ages 3 and 6 – wounded.
All of the victims are expected to make a recovery, according to Chief of Patrol John Chell. He reported the kids were caught in a hail of bullets apparently fired indiscriminately at a group of people at St. James Park in Kingsbridge.
“As a dad and a parent in this city, I couldn’t imagine this happening to my kids,” Chell said during a press conference Tuesday night about the shooting. “Absolutely heart-wrenching and disturbing.”
Chell outlined the preliminary details of the shooting, which erupted at about 6:10 p.m. on July 11 inside the park near East 193rd Street between Jerome and Creston Avenues, within the confines of the 52nd Precinct.
Video that police obtained, Chell explained, indicated that the two suspects allegedly arrived on the scene on an illegal scooter. Both were wearing all-black clothing and masks.
The rear passenger on the scooter, the chief said, hopped off the scooter, pointed a firearm inside the park at a crowd of hundreds and began firing.
The two children suffered gunshot wounds to their legs, Chell noted. A third victim, a 23-year-old man, was shot multiple times about his body, while that victim’s cousin, a 25-year-old man, took a bullet to his back.
After the violence, the two suspects fled on the scooter along 193rd Street.
So far, police have yet to ascertain a possible motive for the shooting, or any intended targets whom the gunman aimed to injure.
Regardless, Chell was incensed at the brazen act, and the trauma inflicted in this latest episode of gun violence — just days after a gunman went on a shooting rampage in Queens and Brooklyn that left a man dead and…
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