Two shootings occur hours apart on same Mount Vernon block
An 18-year-old was shot Tuesday evening on Union Avenue in Mount Vernon – and a second shooting followed in the same area two and a half hours later after detectives had released the crime scene, according to a city press release.
It did not appear that anyone was injured in the second burst of gunfire just after 8 p.m., but police did find five shell casings after responding to reports of shots fired at a crowd of people near 215 Union Avenue, officials said in the press release.
The earlier incident occurred at about 5:40 p.m. when the 18-year-old was shot at Union Avenue and East 3rd Street. He fled from the shooter and collapsed just over a block away in front of 215 Union. He was taken to Jacobi Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition after undergoing surgery. Detectives processing the scene reopened it to the public at about 7:40 p.m., according to the press release.
Vigil: Four shot, one critically, Mount Vernon shooting
The shootings came a week after four people were shot during a vigil on South Eighth Avenue outside the home of a 21-year-old man who had died when he was electrocuted on the third rail at a subway station in the Bronx on Sept. 13 and whose funeral was hours before the vigil.
His death remains under investigation. The NYPD said he was among four suspects police had confronted and when he ran off he was pinned against a train and then made contact with the third rail when he tried to get away again.
Mount Vernon detectives have not determined that there is any connection between the shootings, a city spokesman said Wednesday.
They are working with the FBI Westchester Safe Streets Task Force and the Westchester County Real Time Crime Center on all three shootings. Anyone with information on the shootings is asked to call detectives at 914-665-2510 or text “MVPD” with their tip to 847411.
Reach Jonathan Bandler at jbandler@lohud.com or 914-694-3520.
This article originally appeared on Rockland/Westchester Journal News: Two shootings less than 3 hours apart on same Mount Vernon NY block