Two gunmen opened fire into a crowd at a candlelight vigil for a 13-year-old subway-surfing victim – underlining a month that saw dueling tragic trends of teens getting shot and teens dying while subway surfing.Gunfire exploded around 9:15 p.m.Oct.
27 in Ridgewood, Queens, where two males fired into the memorial for Adolfo Sanabria Sorzano at Fairview and Putnam avenues, The Post has learned.No one was hit.
“At this time, it is believed that this was a targeted incident,” a police official wrote in a email to other cops and city officials Monday.Four shell casings were recovered, police sources said.The vigil shooting came amid a spate in youth violence in the city that has left at least five teenagers fatally shot since Oct.24, cops said.
Police did not immediately comment on the vigil violence.Sorzano died subway surfing on an M train near the Forest Hills station just before 10 p.m.on Oct.
23 in a stunt officials linked to social media.His mom, Milene Sorzano, a recently arrived immigrant, posted on GoFundMe.com that her son was performing a TikTok challenge.“It is with a broken heart that I ask for your support in this painful time,” she wrote on the site to raise money for her child’s funeral.
His dad Adolfo Sanabria pleaded with other teens not to perform the stunt that has left six teens dead so far this year — a devastating tally that has already surpassed 2023’s mark of five deaths and led to frequent public service announcements on trains.“Please don’t ride [atop] the subway.Please think about the pain it will cause your parents,” the grieving father said.Last weekend, a 13-year-old girl was killed and her 14-year-old friend was injured while subway surfing....