Two on-duty corrections officers are in stable condition after being hit by bullets during a gunfight at a bar in Queens.
Unidentified correctional officers, a 31-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman, were gunned down early Saturday morning at the Showtime Bar and Lounge in South Richmond Hill.
Police said the suspect got into an altercation at a bar and was kicked out by the bouncers.
According to the NYPD, the suspect became upset, returned and shot at the bar outside before fleeing.
Unidentified correctional officers, a 31-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman, were shot at early Saturday morning at the Showtime Bar and Lounge in Queens.
Police said the suspect got into an altercation in a bar, got kicked out by the bouncers, got upset and shot at the bar outside before fleeing.
Correctional officers, who police said were not intended targets, were struck by bullets, with a woman wounded in her left leg and a man in his left arm.
The police officers were taken to a local hospital and their condition remains stable.
The police are still looking for a suspect.
The shooting comes as New York City is recovering from the February crime wave, with incidents up nearly 60 percent from last year.
The city’s latest crime figures show there were 9,138 incidents last month, compared to 5,759 in the same period in 2021, with spikes in double digits in nearly all major categories.
There were 32 murders in February, three more than in the same month last year.
Correctional officers were hit by bullets while inside the bar, with a woman hit in the left leg and a man in the left arm (pictured inside the bar)
Many other categories saw a shocking jump, including car theft, which rose nearly 105 percent; grand larceny, which jumped nearly 80 percent from the previous year; robberies, which rose by 56 percent; A 44 percent increase in burglaries and a 22 percent surge in assaults. Rape also rose by a staggering 35 percent in February.
Residents also reacted with horror to a series of high-profile incidents, including the brutal hammering of a woman by a homeless man in Queens and the feces of another woman in the Bronx, after which the alleged perpetrator, a violent criminal with a history of 44 arrests, was released without bail.
These incidents were in addition to the murder of Asian Christina Yuna Lee, 25, who was chased to her apartment by another homeless man, Assamad Nash, 35, and stabbed to death.
On Wednesday, Christian Jeffers, 48, who identifies as a woman, was arrested on charges of assault, aggravated stalking and threats as hate crimes, and one count of criminal possession of a weapon in a brutal attack on 29- summer man. happened Tuesday at the 14th Street subway station in Manhattan.
Jeffers, wearing a black wig and purple lipstick, was caught on video hitting a stranger in the head with a hammer after they bumped into each other and then exchanged words.
The wave of crime came in the first few months of Mayor Eric Adams’s tenure. The former NYC cop has vowed to stem the tide of incidents on the city’s streets and subway system, which has seen a slew of violent incidents in recent weeks. Former Mayor Bill De Blasio’s policies have contributed to the current crime wave, experts say.
The New York City subway has become the epicenter of a hidden crime wave after an alarming 73.3 percent increase in underground accidents, including 182 in February alone.
Hate crimes also doubled from last year, with attacks against Asians more than tripling and complaints against Jews up a whopping 54 percent year-over-year, from 134 to 207 incidents.
One recent poll showed that nearly 75 percent of all New York City voters consider crime to be a “very serious” problem.