Early on Friday morning, a shooting broke out between NYPD officers and robbers outside of a bar in New York City.
Around 3am on Friday, a bouncer at Club Doux in the city’s upmarket Chelsea neighborhood called the police to report a possible heist.
The robbers allegedly opened fire when plainclothes officers wearing NYPD windbreakers arrived on the scene.
The suspects fired back at the officers before driving off in a silver Audi vehicle in the direction of West 21st Street and 7th Avenue.
According to authorities, they were last seen wearing black hoodies.
At the time of the gunfight, there were many revelers in the street.
Although an Uber was hit by one of the rounds, there were no reported injuries.
As of Friday afternoon, no one has been taken into custody.
The shooting that injured a man and damaged a police cruiser on July 18 also occurred on the Chelsea street where the club is situated.
The shooting victim was discovered to be awake and cognizant. Suspect left the area.
It is uncertain if he was taken into custody.
The shooting on Friday morning occurs as crime in New York City has risen recently.
The night of July 18 ended up being a big one for criminals as nine additional crimes were committed across the five boroughs, resulting in two fatalities and 12 injuries.
Robbery and crime as a whole are up shockingly 39%. Also increasing, by 11 and 19 percent, respectively, are rape and assault.
Mayor of New York City Eric Adams, 61, conducted his election campaign on a platform of reducing crime, as he has repeatedly pledged to the city’s residents.
He made the same promise to residents a few weeks ago, saying: “We’re going to turn this crime situation around, and when we do so, people will really see the progress we’ve done in other sections of the city.”
He continued by accusing the city’s criminal justice system of contributing to the rise in violence.
The criminal justice system as a whole has turned its back on the general public and their right to live in safety in their cities, which is terrible given the environment we’re operating in, he said.
“We removed over 3,800 firearms from the streets, and many of the individuals who had been in possession of those firearms were able to re-enter the streets.”
Last month, the Supreme Court invalidated a 108-year-old rule that stipulated that people in New York had to have a “proper cause” in order to carry a concealed handgun.
The 6-3 decision on Thursday overturned a lower court’s decision, which had upheld the rule that only people with “good reason” may obtain licenses to carry concealed guns in public.
The majority judgment was written by Justice Clarence Thomas, who claimed that the New York statute made it illegal for law-abiding persons to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
The latest verdict is likely to make it simpler to legally carry a pistol in large cities like Los Angeles, Boston, and Baltimore.
New York is not the only state that places strict restrictions on who can obtain a license to carry a concealed weapon in public.