Three innocent bystanders were shot in Manhattan in 48 hours.
Two of them were killed, and the one survivor is speaking to Eyewitness News about her terrifying experience.
Tania Tubon was walking to the No. 4 train after working at her construction job in the Kingsbridge Heights section of the Bronx Wednesday.
She said she heard a woman screaming, “that’s a gunshot, that’s a gunshot,” and began running toward the train.
“So we ran towards the train, wanting to get out of there before it gets worse. So we got on the train and I felt a little pain but it wasn’t enough to go back and look,” Tubon said.
The 33-year-old had been grazed by a stray bullet in the hip.
She eventually went to a hospital in Brooklyn and is expected to be OK.
That very same shooting took the life of another innocent bystander.
Daoud Marji, 28, was walking down University Avenue and West Kingsbridge Road as the shots rang out and he was struck in the head.
“A stray bullet. It’s kind of crazy to think about,” Marji’s cousin Marjieh said.
Marjieh is currently in the police academy, preparing to rid the streets of brazen criminals, and the very thing that ended up taking his cousin’s life.
The 28-year-old victim was born in Jordan but raised in Yonkers, New York. His father brought him to the United States for a good education, not to lose his life simply walking down the street.
“I miss everything. He’s my blood bro,” said the victim’s father, Saed Marji. “I’m a strong man but still I’m shocked, and I have to take care of my wife, my family, she’s already gone.”
Daoud Marji was visiting a friend in the Bronx, his father says.
In Harlem, activists and community members gathered Thursday night, desperate to find solutions to what they say is a crisis of violence.
The double shooting in the Bronx follows the deadly shooting of a beloved community matriarch , 61-year-old Excenia Mette who was killed in the crossfire in Harlem Tuesday night.
Eyewitness News obtained security footage showing the beloved grandmother coming out of a deli she owned on Lenox Ave and 113th street to check on a fight happening outside, only to be caught in the crossfire.
“It tells me that there is a change and a shift that is happening in our community. That’s not good. Grandmothers should never be able to be afraid to go to the store or to come outside in broad daylight because young people are beefing with each other,” Dr. Iesha Sekou, founder of Street Corner Resources, said.
For Tubon, who is recovering back home in Ridgewood, Queens, says she’s grateful to be alive, but is now fearful.
“I’m scared, at this moment I’m scared, Before I wasn’t very scared, but now I am,” Tubon said.
One arrest has been made in connection to the Harlem shooting, but police are still looking for the other people involved, including those who fired the fatal shots.
