Witness: Street vendor among 2 injured in double shooting near Apollo Theater in Harlem
NEW YORK -- Two people were shot near the Apollo Theater in Harlem on Tuesday.
Police say at least one of those victims was an innocent bystander.
As CBS2's Dave Carlin reports, the double shooting happened on Harlem's busiest block on West 125th Street.
The Adam Clayton Powell Jr. state office building is steps away to the east, and the Apollo Theater is just steps away to the west. In between is the mobile phone store where the incident happened.
A group of young men reportedly approached a 20-year-old man, shot him and ran away.
One of the bullets hit a 47-year-old woman who runs a vending stall on the sidewalk. The bullet struck her in the leg.
"What I did, I crossed the street, I went down and see the young man laying down. He was bleeding a little bit profusely, so stop the blood. So you have to tie to stop the blood, but I put my hand on it, and I had two other people there, two at the time, a young man and a young woman. She took her shirt off and I just try to tie it as best I can. The young man, I tried to tie the knot. The knot popped out, so I told him to squeeze it and twist it, and I tried to tie another knot on it and stopped the blood, so I did what I could," witness Bruce Bobbitt said.
Both victims were taken to a local hospital and are expected to survive.
No arrests have been made.