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COURIER L 2 IFE, JULY 23-29, 2021
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
Hours after Gov. Andrew
Cuomo gathered in Flatbush
for a pair of press conferences
on combating gun violence on
Wednesday, a shooter gunned
down a 21-year-old man just a
mile away.
Offi cers rushed to the
scene at the corner of Clarkson
Avenue and E. 53rd Street
at around 2:30 pm on July 14,
where they found Brooklynite
Pierrot Simeon with multiple
gunshot wounds to his torso
and left forearm.
Paramedics rushed the victim
to Kings County Hospital,
where doctors pronounced
him dead a short time later.
Police have not made any arrests
in the case, and the investigation
remains ongoing.
The incident came just after
the governor’s dual press
conferences at the nearby Lenox
Road Baptist Church at
1356 Nostrand Ave., where he
fi rst met with Borough President
Eric Adams, the Democratic
nominee for mayor, to
obsentibly talk about combating
shootings in the city.
Hours later, following a
meeting with local stakeholders,
Cuomo reemerged with
a cadre of pols and community
leaders to announce a
new youth jobs program that
he hailed as a necessary measure
to stop crime before it
happens.
“One of the most important
strategies is to get young
people before the fact,” Cuomo
said at the church on Wednesday.
“Before they enter the
pipeline of the system, because
once they’re in the system,
that pipeline only leads to
one place.”
The program would create
nearly 4,400 jobs in Central
Police and detectives from the 67th Precinct investigate a shooting on E. 53rd Street and Clarkson Avenue.
Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
Brooklyn, including 2,000
temporary summer youth employment
positions for people
aged 15-24, along with 2,388
full time positions in trades
like carpentry, baking, and
electrician work, Cuomo said.
Gun violence by the
numbers
Cuomo’s announcement
came as New York City’s shooting
statistics remain high following
a spike in early 2020.
After a steady decline over
the preceding decade, the
number of shooting victims
more than doubled between
2019 and 2020 — with 1,868 people
shot in the Five Borough in
2020, compared with just 923
victims the previous year.
Troublingly, the upward
trend of shootings looks to be
continuing.
So far in 2021, the city has
seen 931 victims of gun violence,
compared with 762 during
the same time period last
year — marking a 22 percent
increase in the number of
shooting victims.
Brooklyn is on pace to
nearly match 2020’s number
of shooting victims in 2021, as
306 people have already been
shot in Kings County, compared
with 307 between January
and mid-July of last year,
according to NYPD stats.
The rise in violent crime
has sparked widespread concern
among the public, with
the topic becoming the number
one issue among voters in
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