A six-year-old boy’s mom says his femur is “shattered” after a Labor Day shooting in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s (D) New York City.
The New York Post reports that Maxwell Cesc-Dinho, was shot around 3 a.m. “near Crown Street and Nostrand Avenue,” while exiting a cab with his mother.
The shooting that wounded Maxwell occurred “just a short distance from J’ouvert celebrations,” and was the result of two people firing into a crowd, ABC 7 reports.
The bullet that struck Maxwell went through both of his legs, ripping the muscle in one leg and striking the femur in the other.
He had to have surgery. “[The] surgery went well. They had to give him some antibiotics and stuff, but he’s doing a lot better,” his mother said.
The mother was also received a gunshot wound to her foot.
She reacted to the shooting by lamenting what she sees as a loss of morality among the youth. She said, “Young people are at a loss. I’m a Christian, and I truly believe that as adults, we need to get kids back into church and raise them with morals.”
She added, “That’s what a lot of young people don’t have — they don’t have morals, they don’t have values for life and I think that’s a lot of what’s going on.”
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