2 Shot At UWS Playground, Shooters Flee On Citi Bike: Police

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY – At approximately 8 p.m. on Tuesday night, a 25-year-old man and an 18-year-old man were shot inside the Samuel N. Bennerson Playground near 216 West 64th Street, police said.

The 25-year-old man was injured after a bullet grazed his left wrist, according to police, while the 18-year-old was shot in the right leg.

Both victims were transported to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital in stable condition, police said.

The two shooters fled southbound on a single Citi Bike, a police spokesperson confirmed, and were described as “in their twenties, one black male and one black Hispanic male.”

No arrests have been made and an investigation is ongoing.

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