Shock video: two little brothers, 10 and 5, were in the middle of a brutal shooting in New York and were miraculously saved

The assailant continued to shoot despite the presence of the children. (Photo: video capture / Twitter / @ NYPDNews).

Two girls from 10 and 5 years they are unharmed after seeing each other caught in the middle of a violent shootout in the middle of a street new York Thursday. Police released footage from security cameras in an attempt to locate the perpetrator of the shots.

In the spooky video, he is seen as a man dressed in black with his face covered in chases and shoots another, in red, in the middle of Sheridan Avenue in the Bronx neighborhood.

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In his flight, the man in red fall babies and tries to hide behind them, while the assailant continues to shoot to burn clothes.

As the 10-year-old’s courage emerges, she pulls her little brother by the arm and wrap with your body to protect you from a possible gunshot wound.

Police say the assailant fired twelve times. Three of the shots hit the 24-year-old victim in the back and legs. He was hospitalized and is out of risk.

The children had just come out of a store and had no connection with the victim or the hitman, who ran away in the back of a motorbike.

Officers are looking for both the person who fired the shots and the person who helped him escape. In the last few days, they published a photo and asked for help from the population to find it.

New York Police Department chief Rodney Harrison said the shooting “appears to be a gang incident, which has escalated in New York this year.”

“I’m upset, I’ll be honest, it’s very alarming,” Harrison said.

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An “epidemic of gun violence” in the United States

In recent months, there have been several shootings in the United States which have led to the President Joe biden qualify armed violence as “epidemic”.

Arms sales increased at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. So far in 2021, there have been at least 200 mass shootings in the United States, according to Archives of gun violence.

Gun violence exploded across the country last year, according to official statistics, one of the most violent in decades. The homicides increased by 30% compared to 2019, and this year there have been between 20 and 25% more than 12 months ago.

Experts say the country is on track to surpass more than 20,000 murders in 2020, the highest level since 1995.

According to New York Times, experts attribute the increase in shootings to economic stress and Social Security from the virus, which has cost lives and jobs disproportionately in neighborhoods already struggling with high levels of gun violence.

Other major cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia, have also seen an increase in gun violence during the pandemic.