NEW YORK — Police say one man was killed and three were injured when gunmen on scooters opened fire in the Bronx on Tuesday.
It happened around 6.15pm in the Mount Eden section.
4 shots in the Bronx; 1 dead, 3 injured
Police say four men between the ages of 23 and 37 were standing at the corner of Townsend and East Mount Eden avenues when four people on two scooters approached them, driving east on Mount Eden Avenue .
According to police, the two passengers in the back pulled out firearms and fired about 10 rounds at the men standing on the corner.
Three victims were shot in the leg and one victim, Miguel Doleo, 29, was shot in the chest and leg. Doleo was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police say the suspects fled on scooters, traveling north on Townsend toward the Cross Bronx Expressway. The four suspects were wearing masks and hoodies.
The investigation is ongoing. Police say the motive is unclear at this time.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477)or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also send a tip through their website or DM them on Twitter, @NYPDTips. All calls are kept confidential.
NYPD fighting crime involving scooters
Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry said this month that police have been working with the Community Response Team in the Mount Eden section of the Bronx to aggressively pursue people on scooters.
“There's a direct relationship with people riding illegal scooters and committing crimes, and it's a careful balance for us because there are people legitimately riding scooters, working, you know, Uber Eats and different things like those, so it's a careful pick for us, but we see both, and it's hard to tell them apart at first, but we see both,” assistant manager Benjamin Gurley said.
Daughtry says that so far this year, police have made 1,300 arrests involving people on scooters and issued 989 citations to people on scooters.
According to the NYPD, 9,500 scooters, dirt bikes and ATVs have been removed from city streets so far this year, including 2,500 in the Bronx alone.
“We have to give our officers a lot of credit. It takes skill to stop these individuals on scooters. We don't want our officers chasing them down the streets because we don't want to endanger the public, so we use other things like technology … We have our air support that will follow them, wait until they get their motorcycle off and move to attention,” Daughtry said. “It's a skill to go after these scooters, but we don't want to see cops aggressively chasing them, you know, Grand Concourse because is it really worth it? So there's a technique that we have that we use that' you're doing great.”
Daughtry says that after Tuesday's shooting, the department will bring the Community Response Team back into the neighborhood, specifically to go after illegal scooters, dirt bikes and ATVs.
“We can't stop our way out of this problem… In this public safety game, there are other people involved in this public safety game. We're just the first person in the public safety game that the criminal You can contact the community response team is that the answer to everything is not 100 percent that there are other stakeholders in this public safety game.
“I think when you hold repeat offenders accountable, that's where we help. We have examples of that and we're working with our partners in the DA's office to do that,” Gurley said.
Police said Tuesday that in the past 28 days, 36 gun arrests have been made in the NYPD's 44th and 46th Precincts, which cover the southwest and west parts of the Bronx, and 18 guns have been recovered. of the street in these areas between April 1 and 9 only.
