Harlem, NY (77WABC) An NYPD investigation continues after a gunman unleashed a hail of bullets outside of St. John The Devine Cathedral in Harlem Sunday afternoon.
Late Sunday evening, the NYPD Counterterrorism Unit releasing photos of the two guns recovered from the scene of shooting. Police also releasing photos of a bag, they believe to be the suspects, which contained a canister of gasoline, rope, wire, multiple knives, tape and a bible.
Chaos unfolded at around 3:45pm, just as a cathedral Christmas choir concert was just ending on the steps of the cathedral, located between West 110th and West 113th Streets in Amsterdam Avenue. Police say multiple witnesses told authorities the gunmen pointing two guns into the air and started firing several shots, while yelling “Kill Me.”
“In the years in Paris, I had never been homesick for anything American,” James Baldwin wrote in his 1972 book of essays,
No Name in the Street. “But,” he added just a page or two later, “I had missed my brothers and my sisters … I missed Harlem Sunday mornings and fried chicken and biscuits.”
I’m thinking about these lines as I bite into a piece of fried chicken the thinly breaded skin crispy, the inside juicy enough that I need to wipe my lips while sitting in front of Gumbo Yaya. The tiny restaurant’s red facade bursts through the otherwise grayish nook it occupies at the northeastern edge of Paris’s 10th Arrondissement, just streets away from the French Communist Party’s curving, concrete, Oscar Niemeyer-designed headquarters.