Two teens wounded as gunfire erupts on the Upper West Side

Two teens were wounded aft a gunman opened occurrence connected a crowded Manhattan thoroughfare filled with trick-or-treaters connected Halloween night, cops said.

The shooter fired 3 shots connected W. 71st St. adjacent Amsterdam Ave. connected the Upper West Side astir 6:32 p.m., constabulary said.

A 17-year-old lad was spotted limping into a adjacent McDonald’s wherever his friends bandaged a coiled to his close leg, 1 witnesser told the Daily News.

“He ran into the McDonald’s and sat down,” said the witness, a thoroughfare vendor who declined to stock his name. “He was changeable successful the close leg. His friends were surrounding him and helping him.”

Police analyse a shooting extracurricular a McDonald’s connected West 71st Street and Broadway connected the Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City connected Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily News)

Medics rushed the teen to NY Presbyterian – Weill Cornell Hospital successful unchangeable condition, cops said.

A 19-year-old antheral with gunshot wounds to the limb and enarthrosis — who arrived astatine Mt. Sinai Hospital by backstage means — was aboriginal connected to the shooting, constabulary said.

The gunfire sent costumed kids and their parents moving successful terror, the vendor said.

“There were tons of kids retired present trick-or-treating with their moms. They each ran screaming,” the vendor said. “You can’t adjacent spell trick-or-treating retired present anymore.”

One dada retired trick-or-treating with his 5-year-old girl erstwhile the gunfire erupted complained that a radical of youngsters bent retired smoking weed, playing dice and combat astatine the intersection.

“These kids are ever nether my scaffolding smoking marijuana and shooting craps connected the sidewalk,” 51-year-old Eric Papa told The News. Papa was dressed arsenic King Triton, portion his girl dressed up arsenic the Little Mermaid.

“There are ever fist fights. I told them to permission I don’t cognize however galore times. It’s madness. None of them unrecorded astir here. Where are the police?”

Police were searching for 2 suspects past seen fleeing southbound connected Amsterdam Ave. connected a bicycle. No arrests person been made.