Man shoots self in leg in Times Square while urinating
Cops said the butterfingered 39-year-old gunman accidentally pulled the trigger while relieving himself about 12:20 p.m. inside the station at W. 40th St. and 7th Ave. The wounded public urinator then passed the firearm to a friend who fled the station, police said. A witness said the shooting created a deafening echo.
Video from ‘Smoke City’, a tobacco shop on W. 40th St., shows the victim, clad in a green hat, chatting on the corner with a few men and then entering the station. A few minutes later, another man, wearing a light pink hoodie, leaves the station, looking back before scurrying off. Police suspect the shooter handed the gun to the man in the pink hoodie, sources said. The bumbling gunman was taken to Bellevue Hospital and was in stable condition.
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The incident was not the only mayhem in the increasingly sketchy area. Hours earlier, a woman was pushed into the side of a northbound No. 1 train as it arrived in the station shortly after 8 a.m. The woman was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was in stable condition with cuts and bruises to her face. She suffered a broken arm, and her face is bruised and swollen, family said. “She’s hanging in there,” said brother-in-law Sergio Gomez, 38. “She didn’t lose consciousness at any point.”
“This morning I had a bad feeling, I said ‘Take care’,” the victim’s wife said. “She always calls me at 8:30 when she gets to work, and today she called me at 8:33 a.m. and it was a nurse... I thought ‘this is not happening to us’. It’s something you see on the news.”
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