NYPD Hosts Block Party In Same Mount Eden Neighborhood Where Children Were Caught In Middle Of Gunfire

CBS New York

June 24, 2021

The parents of the two children who were used as shields in a shooting in the Bronx last week spoke out Wednesday at an NYPD block party in their neighborhood.

Chief of Department Rodney Harrison insisted investigators are very close to making an arrest in this case. But with the shooter still at large and gun violence surging in the neighborhood and across the city, the police held the event to help kids feel safe outside their homes, CBS2’s Ali Bauman reported.

There were games and giveaways on Sheridan Avenue in the Mount Eden section of the borough, and at the center of the party were the 5-year-old boy and his 13-year-old sister, who are lucky to be alive.

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