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Two People Shot on Steinway Street Early Sunday Morning: NYPD

Police are looking for a man wanted for shooting two individuals on Steinway Street early Sunday morning (Photo: NYPD and GMaps)

Oct. 7, 2021 By Christian Murray

The NYPD is looking for man wanted for shooting two individuals on Steinway Street during the early hours Sunday morning.

Police say the man fired multiple shots in front of 28-48 Steinway St. at around 3:50 a.m. striking a 29-year man in the back and a 22-year-old man in the right hip.

Both victims went to Elmhurst Hospital by private means and are in stable condition.

The suspect fled the scene on foot southbound on Steinway Street.

Police have release video and photos of the suspect.

Anyone with information in regard to the shooting is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).

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Riz

Astoria residents complain more about loud cars and music from open streets waking up their pets at night than the shootings and rise in crime in Astoria.

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poet laureate of sunnyside

roses are red
violets are blue
democrats have destroyed this city with their bail reform defund the police woke nonsense
and now criminals are comin for you

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But all the gun owners in NYC

Are Democrats.

Care to explain that???

Thugs are thugs no matter who they vote for (you know so few Democrats vote).

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Politics are now black and white, the Nixon strategy

How do you the shooters are Democrats? Explain that.

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ABoondy

and yet liberal constituents run around with illegal guns doing hood things to impress their friends.

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Why do you hate the 2nd amendment?

Shouldn’t they have the right to bear arms? It’s a shame the right doesn’t believe in the 2nd amendment.

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Hakim

Close Steinway street to cars like they did with almost every other avenue in Astoria so people have more space to run.

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43rd & 43rd

Starbucks opened (pre-pandemic) at 4:30 or 5 to cater to customers, including mostly blue-collar workers at that hour. Employees have to get there, and many other early-morning businesses (as well as getting home from late-night businesses). How mad would you be if you couldn’t drive through on your way to work?

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