NEW YORK — A school basketball participant was killed and eight different individuals have been wounded Monday in an early-morning capturing at a gathering in Harlem, New York Metropolis police mentioned.
Officers responded round 12:40 a.m. to reviews of a capturing on a footpath alongside FDR Drive and located a number of individuals wounded. Different victims went to hospitals on their very own, officers mentioned.
Darius Lee, a senior at Houston Baptist College in Texas, was killed, the college mentioned. He was 21. He grew up in Harlem, attended St. Raymond Excessive Faculty for Boys within the Bronx and was residence for summer season break.
The wounded included six different males and two females, police mentioned.
“This Father’s Day weekend is a weekend the place individuals have been supposed to have the ability to take pleasure in themselves with their households,” NYPD commissioner Keechant Sewell mentioned at a information convention.
The investigation was ongoing Monday and police did not instantly have particulars concerning the gathering, potential suspects or what may need led to the capturing.
A gun was recovered from the scene, police mentioned.
The New York Every day Information reported that the gathering was a cookout organized by Harlem rapper Wealthy Rhymer, who posted invites on his Instagram account. He famous that his two prior cookouts had been freed from violence and wrote: “LETS GO FOR A 3PEAT.”
Lee, a guard and ahead, performed basketball at a group faculty in New York’s Sullivan County earlier than enrolling at Houston Baptist College. He was scheduled to graduate in December with a bachelor’s diploma in sports activities administration, the college mentioned.
Lee was not too long ago named the college’s Male Pupil-Athlete of the Yr. He led the group in scoring and rebounding final season, and completed sixth within the nation in steals per sport, incomes a second group All-Southland Convention choice. Lee scored 52 factors in a quadruple-overtime victory final season, as properly.
Houston Baptist coach Ron Cottrell described Lee as a “outstanding younger man” and a “pleasure to educate.”
“We’re in shock and can’t wrap our heads round this information,” Cottrell mentioned in an announcement posted on the college’s web site. “My coronary heart breaks for his mother, his sister and his complete household, and for our basketball group… As nice of a basketball participant as he was, he was an excellent higher particular person.”
The capturing comes amid nationwide concern over gun violence and because the U.S. Supreme Courtroom is contemplating whether or not to strike down a legislation that makes it troublesome to legally carry a handgun in New York.
Shootings are down 11% thus far this 12 months in New York Metropolis, in comparison with final 12 months. Murders are down 12% however are nonetheless at their second-highest stage since 2012.
Info from The Related Press was used on this report.
