Crime & Safety
Teen Hit In Daylight Shooting Near Harlem School: NYPD
The 16-year-old in Harlem was not the first teenager to be shot near a school in Manhattan on Tuesday.
HARLEM, NY — A teenager was shot outside a Harlem school in broad daylight Tuesday, just hours after another teenager was shot near another school on the Upper West Side, according to police.
The 16-year-old boy and a man, 27, were both shot about 1 p.m. on East 128th Street and Madison Avenue, less than a block away from the Urban Assembly School for Global Commerce, police said.
Both were taken to Harlem Hospital conscious and in stable condition, police said.
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The police spokesperson did not have information about how many suspects there were, or what might have led to the shooting.
The shooting occurred just hours after bullets flew outside an Upper West school.
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A 17-year-old boy was shot twice in the stomach about 9:50 a.m. near the Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Campus, Patch reported.
The school went into a brief shelter-in-place, a spokesperson from the city confirmed to Patch.
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