Video shows man getting shot in buttocks on NYC street

Posted by Tobi Tarwater on Thursday, August 22, 2024

A gunman strolled up to a stranger and shot him in the buttocks on a Bronx street this week, disturbing new video shows. 

Surveillance footage released by police early Thursday shows the suspect walking from the street onto the sidewalk at Prospect Avenue and East 165th Street in Foxhurst minutes before 5 a.m. Wednesday.

Police investigate the area where a man was shot in front of 982 Prospect Ave. in The Bronx, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Robert Mecea for NY Post
The man who was shot in the Bronx. DCPI

He yelled, “Yo!” before firing a single shot, striking a 36-year-old man in the behind, cops said. 

The muzzle flash can be seen in the video. 

The suspect fled north on Rev. James A. Polite Avenue toward East 167th Street, cops said. 

The shooting suspect seen on surveillance video. DCPI
Police officers talk to a man whose friend was shot in front of 982 Prospect Ave. Robert Mecea for NY Post

The victim was taken to Lincoln Medical Center in stable condition.

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