By Gus Saltonstall
A 15-year-old boy was shot Thursday evening on the Upper West Side, a police spokesperson confirmed to West Side Rag.
The teenager was shot about 7:20 p.m. at 217 West 62nd Street, which is part of the Amsterdam Houses New York City Housing Authority complex between Amsterdam and West End avenues, police said.
The 15-year-old was shot in the lower left torso, and also suffered a graze wound to the chest, police said. He was rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in stable condition, police said.
There are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing.
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Terrible. Hope he makes a full recovery. Not how you want your10th grader to spend the holidays.
Even if it’s gang or drug related in Amsterdam Houses I hope justice is possible. Too many guns.
NYC progressives don’t seriously prosecute crimes to begin with (gun-related or not), so pushes for gun regulations are moot.
You can ban guns on paper, but it’s meaningless until you aggressively lock up criminals and enable police to catch them in the first place.
Progressives – as can been seen in the new, anti-police NYC laws passed this week – are not serious about either.
The true believer injects his core beliefs into all subjects
Gang and drug-related gun violence will always be with us. Whether or not this incident was drug and/or gang related, let’s not forget that Republican appointments to the Supreme Court, going back decades, have resulted in rulings – notably Heller (Scalia, 2008) and Bruen (Thomas, 2022) – which along with GOP reticence make meaningful gun control virtually impossible. Of course gun control is no cure-all, but we continue to go in the wrong direction. Even the current Court finally seems to recognize that.
No matter if strict gun laws are in or out – illegal guns will find their way to people who do not have a license to have them.
NYC has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. Didn’t help this kid
Got it. Nice way of absolving literally anyone close to the situation at home. It’s all the fault of the SCOTUS interpreting the Constitution – not anyone in power directly responsible for the lives of people right here.
It’s two separate issues: enforcement of laws against violent crime and the virtually unstoppable supply of weapons into NYC.
Bruen is an absurd and incoherent ruling decided by the current court
But they have let some lower court anti-gun decisions stand since.