Police responded to the scene near Madison Street and Saint James Place around 7:15 p.m. on Saturday after receiving a 911 call for a report of an assault.
Sunday, October 13, 2024 12:51PMLOWER EAST SIDE, Manhattan --fatally shooting a man and injuring another on the Lower East Side Upon arrival, officers found a man in his 40s with a gunshot wound to his neck and a 30-year-old man hit in the lower body.
Police flashlights followed the trail of evidence Saturday night to a trail of blood spattered next to pieces of clothing on the sidewalk. "Firecrackers and gunshots are two different sounds, so we already knew," she said. "You're going to be scared regardless. When you're walking through the street, when you're on the bus -- you're going to be afraid."
It is not an unfamiliar sight or feeling for Anamul Sumal, who works right outside the crime scene and remembers not long ago, just over the summer when there was another violent, but more shocking crime just steps from his place of work."We're concerned about our safety, the violence is increasing day by day," Sumal said.
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