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The gunman who allegedly shot a 17-year-old boy close to his Upper West Side highschool — sparking a burst of gun violence in possible retaliation — has been charged with tried homicide, cops stated Wednesday.
Cheick Coulibaly, 19, was busted a short time after the shooting that erupted round 9:50 a.m. Tuesday on the nook of Amsterdam Avenue and West 68th Street, police stated.
Coulibaly — who was out on bail in a 2021 armed theft case — allegedly shot the younger sufferer a number of occasions within the torso, cops stated. The teen needed to bear surgical procedure however was anticipated to outlive.
The bloodshed stemmed from a dispute that started two blocks north, involving 4 or 5 teenage boys, authorities stated.
After being shot, the sufferer staggered to his college, the Maxine Greene High School for Imaginative Inquiry, police stated. That college, along with close by LaGuardia High School of Music, was positioned on lockdown after the capturing.
Coulibaly, in the meantime, acquired away in a yellow cab that he had hailed — however quick-thinking witnesses tipped off cops, who had been in a position to cease the taxi a block away and arrest him.
“The cab was going downtown,” stated a doorman who watched the arrest go down exterior 165 West End Ave. “There had been about 5 cop vehicles. They cornered the cab from the front and back. The cops acquired out with their weapons drawn and informed the man to get out. He acquired out they usually arrested him.”
In addition to tried homicide, Coulibaly was charged with assault, felony use of a firearm and felony possession of a weapon, cops stated. He was awaiting arraignment on the fees Wednesday.
Coulibaly has three prior arrests, Chief of Patrol John Chell informed reporters Wednesday. This consists of two narcotics arrests this yr within the Bronx and the armed theft with a firearm cost for which he was indicted in 2021 in Manhattan.
Records present he made $50,000 bail within the ongoing case in November. His subsequent courtroom date is April 18.
Just over three hours after the Upper West Side capturing, a 16-year-old boy and a 27-year-old male harmless bystander had been shot at East 129th Street and Madison Avenue — in what police sources are calling a attainable retaliatory strike.
The teen and 4 different college students at Harlem Renaissance High School had been going out for lunch round 1 p.m. when three males approached them and a struggle broke out, cops stated.
Bullets flew through the brawl, leaving the teenager — who sources stated was on his first day on the college — with a bullet wound to the leg.
The bystander was additionally shot within the leg and rushed to Harlem Hospital, in accordance with cops.
The three suspected shooters fled, cops stated. Police consider the teenager was the supposed goal and say the capturing was gang-related.
A 3rd incident — involving a report of photographs fired at East one hundred and fifth Street and Park Avenue round 3 p.m. — was additionally believed to be linked, police stated.
Four shell casings had been recovered at that scene, however nobody was struck.
No arrests have been made in these instances.
“The final 5 hours, we acquired three capturing incidents within the northern aspect of Manhattan,” Chell stated at a press briefing in East Harlem on Tuesday.
“Right now, we’re continuing like they’re all linked,” he added. “Why do I say that? In proximity, geography, round colleges, age of our victims, and now we confirmed no less than one incident, this incident right here is gang-motivated.”
