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Bronx man shot with stray ball while sitting on the walker: cops

File – police at a crime scene in Brooklyn

Photo by Lloyd Mitchell

The police identified an innocent viewer who was shot on his hiker in the Bronx with a stray ball on Sunday evening – the latest in a flood of similar incidents about the district.

According to the police sources, 57-year-old Kevin Jennings sat on his walker along East 188th Street and Marion Avenue in Fordham Heights around 6.49 p.m. on May 18, when the fir fire stretched out.

Jennings hit a ball into his head, while another 34-year-old woman cut off her left leg, said the sources of the law enforcement authorities.

Scene in the Bronx, in which the man was fatally shot with a stray ball
According to the police sources, 57-year-old Kevin Jennings sat on his walker along East 188th Street and Marion Avenue in Fordham Heights, Bronx, at around 6.49 p.m. on May 18, when shots came out.Photo on Google Maps

Officers from the 46. ​​District reacted to the incident. Ems hurried both victims to the St. Barnabas Hospital, where Jennings was declared dead. The female victim was listed in a stable state.

By May 11, the 46th district reported only one murder and 10 shootings, which was specified by the 10 murders and 12 shootings at the same point last year.

The shootout on Sunday occurred a day after the 16-year-old Evette Jeffrey had been rested after she was killed in front of a bronx school with a stray ball on May 12th.

The aspiring nurse played with her scooter when she was caught on the way to a ball that was allegedly fired by a 14-year-old boy who has been charged because of Jeffreys murder.

In another incident, a 15-year-old boy said that he was with his mother outside the Williamsbridge Road 2244 when he was wounded with a stray ball. He is now recovering.

There were no arrests at the shootout on Sunday and the investigation remains.

Anyone who has information about shooting on Sunday on Sunday can call Crime Stopper at 800-577 tips (for Spanish, dial 888-57 pista). You can also submit tips online at crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or on X (formerly Twitter). @Nypdtips. All calls and messages are kept confidential.

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