NEW YORK.- A young man of Hispanic appearance was arrested by New York police detectives after firing several shots in the middle of a crowd that participated in the Great Dominican Parade in the Bronx.
The gunman, not identified by the authorities, arrived in a “passola” at the Grand Concourse with 170th Street, in said county, at which time the last floats crossed the place on Sunday afternoon to end up on 167th Street. .
When he fired the first shots, a few meters away there were several detectives inside the “crowd” and an undercover car, license plate HFE-6923, who immediately jumped at them, knocking them down from the “passola” and neutralizing it, and then introduced it to the Ford vehicle. black color
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At that moment, a run-run broke out among the Dominicans, yelling “so pulling”, “so running”, be careful, they are running”, “run-run”, many rolled on the floor when they stumbled, others collided with themselves or with objects within its rapid displacements.
In less than five minutes, dozens of uniformed men appeared at the scene in a warlike attitude, with pistols in their hands and ordering those present to move away from the place.
Mayor Eric Adams; like Congressman Adriano Espaillat; the Commissioner of Transportation (DOT), Ydanis Rodríguez; State senators and assembly members, as well as political leaders, had left the place.