‘The pain was unbearable’
Woman hit by stray bullets outside bar in the Bronx
A woman was wounded by stray bullets outside a Bronx bar by a shooter aiming at an assailant who had just stabbed a man in the back and head, police said Sunday.
“I thought I was going to lose my life,” the stray bullet victim wrote on Facebook. “The pain was so unbearable I couldn’t breathe.”
The mayhem began when a 38-year-old man was stabbed multiple times as he stood in the doorway of Lexa Bar and Garden on E 204th St. near Webster Ave. in Norwood about 2:25 a.m. on Saturday, police said.
As the stabber fled the scene, a gunman hellbent on exacting revenge followed him out the bar and opened fire down the dark Bronx street, startling video shows. The shooter, wearing a hoodie emblazoned with the logo, “Anti Social Social Club,” casually mills about for a few moments outside the club after firing, the video shows.
The bullets, missing their target, struck the 31-year-old woman in the buttocks.
Both the stabbing victim and the woman struck by stray bullets were rushed to area hospitals and are expected to survive, police said.
The stray bullet victim posted a dramatic account of her ordeal on Facebook along with pictures of her wounds. The Daily News is withholding her name.
“All I can think about who gonna take my boys if I’m not here,” she wrote, thanking good Samaritans she credits with saving her life after she fell unconscious. “If that other bystander didn’t get me into the car and drove me to the hospital I would have bleed out. … I appreciate every soul that helped me.”
“To just be standing there and get shot wasn’t right and def not fair to me,” she added. “Anything
can happen to me you or anyone else … I’m honestly in shock n still can’t believe this. I just wanna be with my family that’s all … This recovering isn’t going to be easy.”
There are no arrests. Police released surveillance video depicting the stabber and the shooter and asked the public’s help identifying them and tracking them down. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers, (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.