Mayor Bill de Blasio calls tragic shooting death of 1-year-old ‘horrifying’

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday called the fatal weekend shooting of a 1-year-old boy on a Brooklyn street “horrifying” — and vowed to use “every resource” to find his killer.

“This isn’t something we can allow,” the mayor told reporters — as the city continued to be wracked over the weekend by gun violence, which also included a 12-year-old boy being shot in the leg.

“To wake up this morning and learn that a 1-year-old child was killed on the streets of our city by gunfire is just so painful,” de Blasio said at a press conference, where many of his comments addressed city crime and current violent protests — yet with no Police Department representative in sight.

“It’s not acceptable. It’s not something we can ever look away from,” de Blasio said of the deadly crime surge.

“It’s something we have to address and stop,” he said.

“It’s just horrifying,” de Blasio added of... (Read more)

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