Crime & Safety
2nd UWS Gunman Who Shot Man In Buttocks Nabbed, NYPD Says
New details have been revealed about a pair of gunmen police suspect in a shooting on West 89th Street, the NYPD said.
UPPER WEST SIDE, NY - A second man has been nabbed by police after an Upper West Side shooting saw a man take a bullet in the backside in September, authorities said.
Robert Hart, 42, of Harlem, was charged Saturday with attempted murder, gang assault, criminal possession of a firearm and related charges, police said.
Another suspect, Diamante Shell, 25, of Brooklyn, was arrested and charged in October with attempted murder and related offenses, police said.
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The gunmen squeezed off several shots, striking the 41-year-old victim in the buttocks and shoulder, near Amsterdam Avenue and West 89th Street on Sept. 19 about about 1:30 a.m., Patch previously reported.
The men then ran west on West 89th Street, police said. Medics rushed the wounded man to Mount Sinai Morningside in stable condition.
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Anyone with information in regard to the incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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