A visitor was shot on Saturday night after a quarrel on the sidewalk escalated into gunshots, according to police and footage acquired by The Post.
According to a source, the incident occurred at around 5:45 p.m. on West 46th Street, close to 9th Avenue.
People and employees of the nearby Japanese restaurant seem oblivious to the two men disputing on the sidewalk between a black-jacketed man and a blue-jacketed man.
“What? What? “Quit fooling around, sibling! As the other man walks out of the frame, you can hear what he says in his blue jacket before he turns away, seemingly upset.
About 10 seconds later, as bystanders pass, the man in black is heard shouting, “What’s up, n—a,” followed by gunfire.
The footage then cuts to the man in black again, this time holding what seems to be a pistol. When he fires, a flash can be seen emerging from the gun barrel, as seen in the video.
A man in a blue jacket rushed away from the conflict while a walker with baggage fled into the doorway of a restaurant. A woman who was in the path of the gunfire scurried out of the road.
The man quickly retreated.
Police reported that 28-year-old Shaquille Bailey was being hospitalized at Mount Sinai West Hospital for several gunshot wounds to the shoulder and hip.
Two gunshots could be heard. Someone I noticed was limping. Juice store employee Ayushma Shrestha, 25, who lives close to the crime scene, speculated, “I think he was shot in the thigh.” I closed the door behind us as we fled.
A second patient at Mount Sinai was brought there by friends.
Nobody knows the status of the injured.
Investigators might be seen on security footage inside a tobacco store located close to the location of the incident.
Shrestha described the events as “terrifying.”
“That was a terrifying experience. As Shrestha put it, “I made sure to lock the door so they couldn’t get in.”