A retired NYPD officer in the “wrong place at the wrong time” was one of 15 people shot Saturday amid a rash of gun violence in the Big Apple, police sources told The Post.
The 30-year-old former cop was leaving a party in Red Hook, Brooklyn around 11:30 p.m. when she heard gunshots and realized she’d been hit three times in the torso, sources said.
Cops believe the shots came from a group of men who began brawling after they were denied entry to the bash.
“She just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and took a slug in the stomach,” a source said.
The perps fled the scene at 160 Van Brunt Street, where five shell casings were later recovered. The address is shared by a a Tesla dealership and an event space called The View Rooftop, which confirmed they had a private event there Saturday.
The retired cop, who left the force in 2019 after seven years on the job, was taken to Methodist Hospital, where she remained in stable condition on Sunday. No arrests had been made as of Sunday evening.
Shots rang out in 14 separate incidents across the city on Saturday, leaving 15 injured, according to police.
Jamiek Bishop, a suspected gang member from the Bronx, was shot in the face, chest and right shoulder at around 11 p.m. Saturday, while he was on his stoop at East 224th Street between Bronxwood and Paulding Avenues, police said. He was taken to Jacobi Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
At least six other victims were hurt in four instances of gunplay on Sunday, police sources said.
“If this is what happens on a nice day, what will this summer look like?” a Bronx cop told The Post.
Saturday’s shooting spree represented a sharp spike compared to previous years. Three victims were wounded in the same number of shootings on April 24, 2019. Four victims in four incidents were recorded on the same day in 2018.
Last year saw one victim in one shooting incident — but that was about a month into New York City’s COVID-19 lockdown.
At least 410 people have been injured in 372 shootings so far this year, according to NYPD data.That’s a 77 percent increase from 2020, when 210 incidents of gunplay were tallied by April 24, leaving 238 injured.