Teen Shootings Near UWS, Harlem Schools May Be Connected: Cops

NORTHERN MANHATTAN, NY — There may be a connection between three shootings that saw two teenaged boys wounded on the Upper West Side and in Harlem Tuesday, according to police.

"We are proceeding like they are all connected due to the proximity, geography, around schools, age of the victims," NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said in a news conference on Tuesday. "At least one incident was gang motivated."

The NYPD said they flooded Harlem and the Upper West Side with more cops and resources Wednesday.

They released more information on Tuesday's attacks.

Upper West Side Shooting: 1 Teen Shot In Stomach, Another Charged With Attempted Murder

Two schools went into a brief shelter-in-place after bullets flew on the Upper West Side, officials said.

A 17-year-old was repeatedly shot in the stomach by a former classmate after a fight broke out about 9:50 a.m. at Amsterdam Avenue and West 68th Street, police said.

The teen then ran to his school two blocks away to the Martin Luther King Jr. Educational Campus and called 911, police said.

The UWS school, along with the nearby LaGuardia High School, both went into a short shelter-in-place, the Department of Education confirmed to Patch.

Police soon found the suspected shooter, 19, in a nearby yellow cab, the NYPD said.

He has since been charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal use of a firearm, and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.

The accused shooter has three prior arrests, and is currently out on bail from an armed robbery case in 2021, police said.

"I must reiterate without the community’s assistance here this morning, this would have been a harder case to solve," Chell said. "This is truly New York City working together with the police department to take a shooter off the streets and no further events."

Harlem Shooting: Lunch Break Attack On Madison Avenue

A 16-year-old boy and an innocent bystander both took bullets to the legs during a school lunch break on Madison Avenue, police said.

The teen and the man, 27, were both shot less than a block away from the Urban Assembly School for Global Commerce on East 128th Street and Madison Avenue about 1 p.m., police said.

A group of students was out for lunch, when they were approached by at least three males, and a fight broke out, police said.

Medics rushed both the teen and the 27-year-old to Harlem Hospital in stable condition, police said.

Harlem Shots Fired At East 105th Street and Park Avenue

There were no reported victims from the final connected shooting of the day at East 105th Street and Park Avenue about 3 p.m., but police did confirm the East Harlem shooting was gang-related.

At least four shell casings were recovered, police said.

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