A gang member previously arrested for attempted murder opened fire on a car carrying a 9-year-old girl in Midtown over the weekend, officials and police sources said. Stated.
Eric Garcia — who was released from prison on previous charges after June 21 — was a 22-year-old man in a Hyundai car when he stopped at a red light in a park. I exchanged words with a man from Ave and East 50th Streets in Manhattan just before 2 a.m. Sunday, officials said. Garcia, 25, was walking at the time.
It is not clear what the apparent controversy was, but violent Chico Garcia, sources say he was a gang member, pulled out a gun and shot twice at a car. However, there was a child and another adult in the car. said the officer. No one was hit by bullets.
Police said the driver told police he did not know the suspect.
After the shooting, Garcia fled the scene, but police caught up with him a few blocks on East 48th Street and Madison Avenue, officials said.
He was arrested after a short foot chase and had a gun in his backpack, according to police.
Two he .40 caliber shells and he two bullet fragments were recovered at the scene, police sources said.
The relationship of the people inside the vehicle is unknown, but police sources say they all have the same last name.
Garcia was previously arrested on February 7, 2019 in East Harlem on suspicion of attempted murder, police said.
The arrest stems from the August 2016 shooting of a man on East 119th Street in Manhattan and his Avenue in Lexington, police sources said. the victim was alive.
While the lawsuit is ongoing, Web records indicate that Garcia will be released in the case at least this year until June 21. He is on $200,000 bail. was restrained.
On Monday morning the status of his release was unknown. The Manhattan DA office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Police sources say East He Harlem's violent Chico his gang was arrested last year in a joint investigation by police and prosecutors.
Police said Garcia's last address was Coney Island, Brooklyn.
