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Sun Nov 10, 2013, 09:06 AM Nov 2013

Bryant Park skating rink shooting leaves two injured, including 14-year-old avid skater

A 14-year-old boy who lived to skate was shot at the Bryant Park rink Saturday night— and may have been left paralyzed as a result, relatives said.

A gunman standing outside the packed rink on W. 40th St. and Fifth Ave. opened fire at about 11 p.m., hitting Adonis Mera in the back as he looped around the rink.

A second unidentified victim, a 20-year-old Hispanic man, was hit in the arm and is expected to recover, but the teen’s family fear Adonis may never walk again.

“He can’t move anything from the waist down,” his brother, Jorge Arias, 29, told the Daily News outside of Bellevue Hospital.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/breaking-shots-fired-bryan-park-2-shot-article-1.1512095#ixzz2kFPnycPb

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Bryant Park skating rink shooting leaves two injured, including 14-year-old avid skater (Original Post) cali Nov 2013 OP
That sucks--- I love Bryant Park. trumad Nov 2013 #1
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