A policeman has died and another is seriously injured after a shooting in the New York neighborhood of Harlem, north of the island of Manhattan, and the aggressor of both has also died, according to several media outlets.
The New York Post newspaper assures that the police had responded to a call for help from a woman who was in the middle of a fight with his son, and when they arrived at the scene, they were met with gunfire by their son, which then triggered a gunfight.
Mayor, Eric Adams, presented at the Harlem Hospital first and then planned to go to the scene of the incident (135th Street in Manhattan), which has been cordoned off by the police.
All the media emphasize that it is the third armed incident with victims among the police in just one week, after two other officers were wounded by gunshots on Tuesday and Thursday in two separate incidents, on Staten Island and in Brooklyn.
Added to these incidents are two other crimes that occurred the previous week, the first of them in a Burger King location, where one of the workers was killed by a robber, and the second in the New York subway, when a homeless man pushed onto the tracks, for no apparent reason, a 40-year-old woman who was on the platform at the time the train entered the station.
The mayor, who took office on January 1 and was himself a police commissioner in the past, came to office after an election campaign in which the unsafety It was one of the arguments that he repeated the most, promising to return a climate of tranquility to the city, starting with a greater police presence.
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