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Three Wounded in Briggs Avenue Shooting

A police investigator takes notes after a shooting left three wounded on Briggs Avenue on July 21. (Photo by David Greene)
Police were getting little or no help from the three victims shot on a Briggs Avenue street corner, or the 100 or so residents who were outside enjoying the warm evening, even after the gunfire.

Police and paramedics were called to Briggs Avenue at East 199th Street in Bedford Park, and discovered three victims shot outside of a bodega at 2885 Briggs Ave., just after 8:30 p.m., on Saturday, July 21.

“The three victims were friends and standing on the corner when an unknown male approached them and fired several shots in their direction,” said a police source close to the investigation who wasn’t authorized to speak to reporters.

“They are stable,” the source said, adding that one victim was shot in the abdomen, another in his calf, and the third in the shoulder.” The source said the three victims had been “uncooperative” with the investigation.

The source described one victim as a male Hispanic, about 20 years old, another was a black male, also age 20. No information was available on the third victim or the assailant.

Ed. Note:
A version of this article was originally published in the July 26-Aug. 23 print edition of the Norwood News. Anyone with information in regard to any of these crimes should call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS (8477) or submit their tips by logging on to the Crime Stoppers Website at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.

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