An harmless bystander who was struck by a bullet on a Brooklyn road throughout an obvious drive-by taking pictures Tuesday night described the terrifying second she realized she had been hit.
Alia Abdul-Raheem, 32, was strolling down Malcolm X Boulevard to her Bedford-Stuyvesant residence after work round 7 p.m. when she heard gunshots ring out.
“I looked up and I saw a car driving by pretty fast, and the windows were down, and it sounds like the gunshots are coming from the car,” Abdul-Raheem, who works at a file label, advised The Publish Wednesday.
“Then the next second later, I just felt this, like this hit on my chest, and I looked down, and there’s a hole in my coat, through my shirt.”
In a state of shock, Abdul-Raheem rushed residence as quick as she may.
“At the time, I couldn’t feel any blood. I didn’t really know what had just happened. I was just in pain and kind of shocked, and I continued to walk home.”
It wasn’t till she bought there, that she realized how critical her state of affairs was.
“And I got home, and my sister opened up my coat and she could see the big gash and wounds on my chest,” she mentioned.
Abdul-Raheem went to New York Presbyterian’s emergency room, the place nurses instantly had her see a physician, who examined the wound and did an X-ray.
Happily, the bullet didn’t enter her chest. Police reported the harm as a graze wound.
Abdul-Raheem mentioned the physician advised her that “all things considered,” she was fortunate — “it could have been really a lot worse.”
A 15-year-old boy was additionally shot by the identical suspect or group of suspects, police mentioned.
The teenager was struck within the left ankle on Chauncey Road close to Malcolm X Boulevard, cops mentioned. Investigators consider he was the meant goal, in line with sources.
He was rushed to the hospital in secure situation.
Lower than 24 hours after the taking pictures, Abdul-Raheem mentioned she is bodily sore and mentally in shock.
She mentioned she’s lived within the neighborhood for eight years and by no means felt unsafe, however she expects the primary few instances she does that very same stroll to and from the subway for her work commute to be troublesome.
“It’s scary. I’m a bit shaken up,” she mentioned.
Abdul-Raheem needs town to get weapons off the streets — and out of younger teenagers’ arms.
“The child who was shot was 15. I may inform the youngsters had been younger. They don’t even know what they’re doing — why [do they have] weapons?
“It was 7 o’clock on a Tuesday. If we had better gun control, this would have never happened,” she mentioned.
There have been no arrests as of early Thursday morning, police mentioned. The investigation is ongoing.
