NYC pedestrians run for cover after gunman opens fire in Manhattan: video
One person was shot in Hell’s Kitchen Saturday night, after an argument on the sidewalk devolved into gunfire that sent tourists scrambling for cover, according to police and video obtained by The Post.
The attack happened on West 46th Street near 9th Avenue at around 5:45 p.m., when the assailant walked up to one of the victims and opened fire, according to a source.
Footage shows two men, one in a black jacket and another in a blue jacket, appearing to argue on the sidewalk outside a Japanese restaurant as pedestrians and workers stroll by, oblivious to the dispute.
“What? What? . . . Stop playin’, bro!” the man in the blue jacket can be heard saying before turning away in apparent frustration as the other man walks out of frame.
Roughly 10 seconds later, as several people are walking nearby, the man in black can be heard saying, “What’s up, n—a,” before shots ring out, according to the clip.
The man in black reappears in the video, his arms holding what appears to be a gun at point-blank range. A flash emerges from the muzzle as he fires, the video shows.
One luggage-toting walker ducked into the restaurant’s doorway to escape the violence, while a woman in the line of fire scrambled to get out of the way as the man in the blue jacket ran.
The attacker then fled.
The victim, identified as 28-year-old Shaquille Bailey, was being treated at Mount Sinai West Hospital for multiple gunshot wounds to the shoulder and hip, police said.
“It was like two gunshots. I saw a guy limping. I think he got shot in his thigh,” said Ayushma Shrestha, 25, who works at a juice shop near the crime scene. “I locked the door and we ran to the back.”
A second victim was taken by friends to Mount Sinai Hospital.
The condition of the victims is unknown.
Detectives could be seen looking at surveillance footage from a smoke shop near the scene.
Shrestha called the incident “terrifying.”
“That was very scary. I made sure to lock the door so they wouldn’t come in,” Shrestha said.
