Gunfire erupts outside Bronx council member’s office second week in a row

Bronx Council Member Pierina Sanchez stated on Twitter that pictures fired exterior her workplace for the second week in a row.
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Bullets buzzed previous Bronx Council Member Pierina Sanchez’s workplace for the second week in a row, sending the pol and her workforce ducking for canopy on Tuesday.

“Photographs fired exterior our workplace once more this afternoon. Once more in broad daylight,” Sanchez stated on Twitter hours after the gunfire exterior her Morris Avenue workplace.

“All the way down to the bottom went our workforce, to take cowl. It hit even more durable this week than final. Went out went on the block and our neighborhood’s trauma was thick within the air,” the lawmaker wrote.

Tuesday’s scare got here eight days after a 24-year-old man was shot within the leg proper exterior her workplace door.

The NYPD stated officers responded to the most recent report of pictures fired at about 4:30 p.m., however didn’t instantly discover any victims.

The council member, who was born and raised within the Bronx, stated gun violence has taken its toll on her neighborhood.

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Photographs fired exterior our workplace once more this afternoon. Once more in broad daylight. All the way down to the bottom went our workforce, to take cowl.

It hit even more durable this week than final.

Went out went on the block and our neighborhood's trauma was thick within the air.

— Pierina Sanchez NYC (@PiSanchezNYC) Might 18, 2022

“Our collective damage, palpable,” Sanchez tweeted. “Neighbors who ran for the lives, once more. Mothers hugging their kids tightly. Group leaders, our OGs & companions on this work, who give a lot to make issues higher, yelling out WHY.”

She stated she checked on neighbors and neighborhood members following final week’s taking pictures as properly.

The gunman in final week’s taking pictures fled southbound on Morris Avenue and stays at giant, police stated.

On Tuesday, Sanchez stated she wasn’t shocked by the gun violence, however indignant.

Bronx Council Member Pierina Sanchez stated she checked on neighbors and neighborhood members following final week’s taking pictures as properly.

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“Am I in shock? No. I grew up right here,” she stated within the aftermath. “That is what we face within the ‘hood yr after yr. I’m grateful it wasn’t worse. Grateful our workforce is okay. However I’m indignant it ever involves violence.”

The council member stated town should take weapons off the streets and spend money on reasonably priced housing, after faculty packages and job improvement to handle the basis reason behind gun violence.

“We shouldn’t need to suppose twice about strolling down our personal block. Whether or not our youngsters can play within the backyard,” Sanchez stated.

“We deserve extra.”