In fresh violence over asylum seekers in New York, a 13-year-old immigrant living in a city-funded Midtown hotel was shot and wounded by a group of assailants, officials said.
According to law enforcement sources, officers responded to a 911 call just after 9 p.m. Sunday for a report of a shooting at 124 West 30th Street in Koreatown.
The victim, who was staying at the Roosevelt Hotel, a reception center for thousands of migrants crowding into the city's five boroughs, suffered a single gunshot wound to the leg, the sources said.
The assailant fled east on West 30th Street and remains at large.
The boy suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was rushed to Bellevue Hospital.
A surge of around 210,000 migrants across the five administrative districts, more than 65,000 of whom remain under the city's protection, has led to an increase in violent incidents in some parts of the city since spring 2022.
Earlier this month, a 26-year-old immigrant at a large tent shelter on Randalls Island attacked a security guard at the facility and then cornered NYPD officers who responded to the shelter.
The attack came weeks after a migrant mother was shot and killed outside a violence-ridden tent city.
Another huge shelter, at Floyd Bennett Field, a former federal airfield, has also become a hotbed of unrest and violence since being converted into a migrant facility.
Police said the shelter experienced a domestic violence incident in December and has since seen a series of assault arrests and gun seizures.
In January, migrants, including children, had to be temporarily evacuated from their shelters in the middle of the night as dangerously strong winds approached the city, raising concerns about toppling tents and deadly flooding.
