One person is dead and three others wounded after a man on a scooter went on a shooting spree which began Saturday morning in gun-controlled New York City.
The Associated Press reported the man carried out five separate shootings in Brooklyn and Queens.
Police were able to find the gunman by pulling his image of surveillance footage after receiving calls about shootings.
They “sent [the image] to phones of officers, some of whom spotted the suspect about two hours after the first shooting.”
This photo, released by the New York City Police Department, Saturday, July 8, 2023, shows a gun recovered at the scene of a shooting, in the Queens borough of New York. An 86-year-old New York City man was fatally shot and at least two others were seriously wounded by a man on a scooter who police say was shooting randomly at cars and pedestrians in Queens on Saturday. (New York City Police Department via AP)
No one was injured in one of the five shooting attacks but PIX 11 noted that the gunman shot and wounded a 21-year-old man, a 44-year-old man, and 63-year-old man during the other shootings.
The attacker also shot and killed an 86-year-old man. (The AP reported the deceased gentleman’s age as 87-years-old.)
Police indicated the the gunman on the scooter used a 9mm handgun.
Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety ranks New York the No. 2 state in the nation for gun control, second only to California.
New York gun controls include an “assault weapons” ban, a “high capacity” magazine ban, a red flag law, universal background checks, stringent limitations n carrying a gun for self-defense, gun storage laws, and regulations on “ghost guns.”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.
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