Sufferer dies from accidents – NBC New York

One of many 5 folks shot Monday at New York Metropolis’s West Indian American Day Parade has died, police stated.

A gunman concentrating on a selected group of individuals opened fireplace alongside the parade route in Brooklyn round 2:35 p.m., NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell stated. Police stated the sufferer who died was a 25-year-old man who was shot in his stomach. The surviving victims vary in age from 16 to 69 years previous; none of them has been recognized.

On Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams stated a gunman “turned the celebration into tragedy.”

“The West Indian American Day Parade is a joyous occasion that celebrates the multitude of tradition and variety in our metropolis. However as an alternative of permitting all to get pleasure from a momentous event for our metropolis, a gunman turned the celebration into tragedy when he senselessly fired into the group, hitting a number of revelers,” Adams stated in a submit on X.

The parade had kicked off hours earlier, with 1000’s of revelers dancing and marching down Jap Parkway, a major thoroughfare by way of the borough. It was anticipated to proceed into the night time.

Two folks had been critically wounded, Chell stated. The three different victims are anticipated to outlive their accidents, he stated. The gunman fled.

“This was not random,” Chell stated. “This was an intentional act by one individual in the direction of a gaggle of individuals. We don’t in no way have any energetic shooter or something of that nature working round Jap Parkway as we communicate. The parade is happening and can go on till in a while tonight.”

An Related Press videographer who was close by when the pictures rang out noticed at the least two folks being handled subsequent for what seemed to be wounds to the face and arm.

Police cordoned off an space adjoining to the parade route, the place that they had positioned crime scene markers. The parade continued flowing previous as officers had been seen bagging objects.

Chell requested that bystanders present police with any video footage they could have recorded of the taking pictures.

“We want that video,” Chell stated. “We’re going to clear up this, but it surely’s going to take plenty of work.”

Some folks attending the parade had been shaken by the violence.

“I’m crying over this, it’s so horrible. How can somebody have the guts to fireplace a gun round so many individuals — infants, youngsters, the aged,” Jalissa Bailey instructed the New York Submit.

“I do know this parade has a historical past of violence, however issues have been peaceable lately, and we received to hoping that there was sufficient safety in place that perhaps that was over with,” Bailey stated.

Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer was marching within the parade on the time and accomplished the route.

“I’m pained and troubled by the horrible taking pictures that befell as we had been marching collectively on the West Indian Day Pageant and Parade in Brooklyn,” Schumer posted on X, previously often called Twitter. “Thanks to our 1st responders on the scene. I pray for everybody affected. We should hold working to finish gun violence in America.”

The parade, an annual Labor Day occasion in its 57th yr, turns Jap Parkway right into a kaleidoscope of feather-covered costumes and colourful flags as members make their method down the thoroughfare alongside floats stacked excessive with audio system enjoying soca and reggae music.

The parade routinely attracts large crowds, who line the virtually 2-mile route that runs from Crown Heights to the Brooklyn Museum. It’s additionally a well-liked vacation spot for native politicians, lots of whom have West Indian heritage or signify members of the town’s massive Caribbean group.

Although a joyous event, the parade and associated celebrations have been stricken by violence through the years.

In 2016, two folks had been killed and a number of other others had been wounded close to the parade route. The yr earlier than, Carey Gabay, an aide to then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo was shot within the head throughout pre-parade festivities. He died 9 days later.

The West Indian American Day Parade has its roots in additional historically timed, pre-Lent Carnival celebrations began by a Trinidadian immigrant in Manhattan round a century in the past, in line with the organizers. The festivities had been moved to the hotter time of yr within the Forties.

Brooklyn, the place a whole lot of 1000’s of Caribbean immigrants and their descendants have settled, started internet hosting the parade within the Sixties.

The Labor Day parade is now the end result of days of carnival occasions within the metropolis, which features a metal pan band competitors and J’Ouvert, a separate road get together commemorating freedom from slavery.