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The Old Guy: Does my Stapleton community have a target on its back?
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By Gary Moore | For the Staten Island Advance
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t concerned about all the shootings in Stapleton and in the Tompkinsville Park area in recent months.
One man died after being shot, and then crashing his car a mile away on Van Duzer Street. Luckily, his assailant was later apprehended. One woman was shot in the foot. A young man trying to get his life back together was shot to death. Some guy tried to rob a local T-Mobile store, then fled.
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An AR15 rifle. A machine gun.
These are just some of the scary firearms the New York City Police Department seized from Staten Islanders during the first three months of 2021 as gun arrests more than doubled in the borough compared to the same period last year, according to data from the NYPD.
There have been 43 arrests on the borough this year compared to 17 last.
“It’s good news and bad news. It’s good news that we are making the incarcerations. The D.A.’s team works very, very hard to set high bail, but the bad news is that there are more guns on Staten Island,” Assistant Chief Frank Vega, the NYPD borough commander, said in a recent interview with the Staten Island Advance/SILive.com.