A profession prison was busted within the stray bullet capturing of a 17-year-old woman – a part of an apparently gang-related burst of violence following town’s Mexican Day Parade that additionally included a person stabbed, cops and sources stated Monday.
Joel Nieves, 35, was charged with tried homicide, assault and weapons possession for the Sunday night capturing in Midtown that left the harmless teen with a gunshot wound to the shoulder, authorities stated.
Nieves allegedly opened hearth on the nook of twenty seventh Avenue and Park Avenue round 5 p.m. — moments after a stabbing close by left a 24-year-old man injured, in keeping with cops.
The suspect in that assault, a 14-year-old boy, was arrested and charged with gang assault, police stated.
The sufferer was stabbed within the buttocks on twenty eighth Avenue and Madison Avenue, leaving him hospitalized in secure situation, cops stated.
The 17-year-old woman, who was shot within the left shoulder, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, additionally in secure situation.
Whereas Nieves faces no expenses in connection to the knifing, investigators consider he was a part of a gaggle, together with the teenager suspect, that grew to become violent quickly after the parade wrapped up within the space, sources stated.
Each the capturing and the stabbing look like gang-related, in keeping with the sources.
Cops couldn’t instantly verify whether or not both Nieves or the 14-year-old had gang affiliations.
However Nieves, of the Bronx, has 10 prior arrests – the latest for reckless endangerment in July 2023, police stated.
He was additionally arrested for prison possession of a weapon in October of 2017, the sources stated.
