The NYPD is investigating if recent pellet gun shootings in Manhattan and the Bronx are connected.
NEW YORK -- The NYPD is investigating if at least three pellet gun shootings are connected.They happened on Sunday night and Monday in Manhattan and the Bronx .Lower East Side resident Allen Stern said he was walking from a synagogue with friends on Monday at around 7:30 a.m. when he was struck.'That's where it hit me, right there,' Stern said of the mark on his wrist.
'They seemed to be just doing it out of kicks'About 45 minutes after Stern was struck, police say a similar incident happened on Fifth Avenue near 35th Street.Investigators say a 47-year-old man was struck in the back with a GelBlaster pellet. According to police, when he attempted to confront the three males on bicycles, there was a physical altercation and the group fled.
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