Holiday Horror Gunmen Still at Large

6 wounded in shooting, Mom used as human shield

Police crime scene tape is set up outside of the G & W Grocery at 3544 White Plains Road after six people were shot including a mother and child. -Photo by Citizen App

By David Greene 

Bronx Voice 

January 6, 2024

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BRONX - The NYPD is currently looking for two individuals who opened fire on a crowded convenience store along White Plains Road, wounding six people including a mother who police say was used as a human shield and her 12-year-old daughter.

Police officials say the shooting was reported at 4:50 p.m. on December 30, at the G & W Grocery, located at 3544 White Plains Road, between East 211 Street and East 212 Street in the Olinville section of the Borough.

The NYPD’s John Chell, the former Chief of Patrol who was named NYPD’s Acting Chief of Department by Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch on briefed reporters outside of the shop that has been shuttered since the shooting.

Chell said at the briefing, “We had a brazen and heartless attack by two shooters that opened fire in the middle of the street and into a crowded convenience store striking six people, including a 40-year-old mother and her 12-year-old daughter that were used as shields,” by the intended targets.

Chief Chell continued, “What we know by video so far is we have two shooters running across White Plains Road shooting at a group of people in front of the convenience store. Some members of this group ran into the store and ran to the counter and were being fired upon, which one of the intended targets was not hit, grabbed the mother, 40-years-old as a shield.” Chell added that the mother was shot one time in the stomach.

Chell added that the unidentified victim’s 12-year-old daughter was also struck in the leg and four men between the ages of 18 and 21 were shot in their “arms and legs,” – all of the victims were expected to survive.

Chell called the shooting, “a brazen and heartless attack on innocent New Yorkers and cowardly intended victims who used a mother as a shield.”

Detectives were continuing their search for the two gunmen, the first was described as a male Black wearing a Nike sweatsuit and a male Black wearing a grey hoodie. Anyone with any information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1 (800) 577-TIPS, all calls remain confidential.