A 2-year-old toddler was shot Saturday afternoon in the Bronx in a brazen display of gun violence, police said.
The shooting happened around 2 p.m. in the Fordham Heights neighborhood near Grand Concourse and East Fordham Road, according to the NYPD.
Police said someone standing outside of the Capital One Bank on the corner of Creston Avenue and East Fordham Road fired a gun. Some shoppers ran for their lives – others hid behind cars.
One of the bullets struck the 2-year-old who was with his mother standing across the street. He was admitted to Jacobi Hospital to be treated for injuries and is expected to be OK.
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Mayor Eric Adams stopped by the crime scene hours after leaving the Long Island funeral for fallen NYPD officer Jonathan Diller. He said he planned to visit the toddler in the hospital.
"Now you're hearing about a shooting like this," he said in the Bronx. "It just tells the city why we're so committed to taking these illegal guns off our streets."
Police were searching for a male suspect wearing a red hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans, last seen running down Creston Avenue toward St. James Park.
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Police are still investigating a possible motive.
