Shots fired at New York City concert leave 1 dead, 3 hurt
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SHOTS rang out inside a concert venue in New York City where hip-hop artist T.I. was getting ready to perform, leaving one person dead, three others wounded and concertgoers scrambling for the nearest exits, police said.
One of the victims was in critical but stable condition yesterday. No arrests have been made, and a motive for the shooting is unclear.
The shooting happened around 10:15pm on Wednesday in a third-floor green room area at Irving Plaza, near Manhattan’s Union Square. It was not immediately known who had access to that area.
Witnesses described a frantic, frightening scene.
Liv Hoffman, 19, was in the balcony VIP area to the left of the stage when the shooting happened. She said there had been some kind of argument between two groups of people before the shooting. A woman she had been talking to was one of the victims.
“The girl next to me was shot point blank, and men picked her up and carried her out,” Hoffman said, still shaken by the events that unfolded in front of her. “For two to three minutes we still heard firing, still heard shots, we were clutching each other making sure no one was getting hit.”
Video shot inside the venue showed concertgoers rushing to the sides trying to leave the area as a group of people tended to a person on the floor.
Manhattan Chief of Detectives William Aubry said a 33-year-old man was shot in the stomach and died at a hospital. A 34-year-old man was in critical but stable condition with a chest wound. A 26-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man had leg wounds.
Elijah Rodriguez was in the VIP area by the stage and said that T.I. was supposed to go on at 9 or 9:30pm, but “he never showed up.”
T.I., who lives in Atlanta, was in the building, Aubry said, but performers Maino and Uncle Murda were on stage at the time of the shooting.
Police said metal detectors were set up at Irving Plaza, a 1,025-person ballroom-style music venue.
Witnesses said security getting into the concert was lax. Police say there was security in place, but how it was carried out is part of the investigation.
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