A department spokesperson told Norwood News by phone that police received a report of an adult male who was shot in the leg on the 4th floor of a building at 3211 Parkside Place on Thursday, Jan. 27, at 15.31.

 

The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital and is expected to survive.

 

The perpetrator was last seen on foot in the vicinity of 207th Street and Parkside Place. No physical description was available for the shooter, according to police.

 

There were no other injuries reported.

 

Helicopters could be heard overhead in the vicinity of the location following the incident but it was unclear if they were NYPD helicopters or potentially from the media. When asked, a police spokesperson said, in general, if an aviation unit is available, it is one of the tools the department may use.

 

A member of the management team who was at the building at around 6 p.m. declined to comment. One police vehicle was seen outside the location at around the same time.

 

A vigil, attended by Mayor Eric Adams and several Bronx elected officials, the NYPD, clergy, violence interrupter groups, and community members was held on Friday, Jan. 21, at the location of the shooting, on the infant’s first birthday as she underwent surgery at a Manhattan hospital, as reported.

 

The next day the mayor attended a roundtable event in a Bedford Park public school with several cure violence groups to discuss ways to curb the threat of gun violence across the City and in the Bronx. As reported, the mayor has since released his blue print to combat gun violence in New York City, amid mixed reaction.

 

Last October, a man was shot in Norwood when two gunmen walked into a barber shop and shot a victim at point blank range. Two people were subsequently arrested in connection with the incident, as reported.

 

As of Jan. 23, shootings in the Bronx are up 31.6 percent year-to-date, compared to the same period last year, and shooting victims are up 13.6 percent year-to-date, compared to the same period last year. Meanwhile, in the 52nd precinct, which covers Norwood, Bedford Park, Fordham, Kingsbridge, University Heights and Bronx Park, as of the same date, year-to-date shootings were up 100 percent, compared to the same time last year, and shooting victims were also up 100 percent year-to-date, compared to the same time in 2021.

 

On Wednesday, Jan. 26, as reported, Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark and New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell announced that a 23-year-old man, originally from the Bronx and who formerly lived in Mt Hope, had been charged with hundreds of counts of allegedly criminally selling a firearm, alleged criminal possession of a firearm and related charges for allegedly trafficking 73 weapons and high capacity magazines to the Bronx and Manhattan. There, they were sold to an undercover NYPD officer. The gun trafficking took place between July 17, 2020 and December 22, 2021, according to the Bronx District Attorney’s office. The defendant, Skakor Rodriguez, is due back in court Jan. 31.

 

A person charged with a crime is innocent unless and until convicted in a court of law.

 

Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM, or on Twitter @ NYPDTips.

 

All calls are strictly confidential.

 

*David Greene contributed to this story.