3 people killed, officer shot near New York West Indian Day Parade route

NEW YORK — A shooting on a street corner a few blocks off the route of the annual West Indian Day Parade, scarred by violence at least twice in the last several years, left two police officers wounded and three people dead Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

An officer was hit Monday night by bullet fragments in his left arm and chest and was hospitalized but was expected to survive. Another officer was grazed by a bullet.

At least three other people were hit in the shooting, which started after the parade as an exchange between two armed men, police said. Officers arriving at the scene were fired upon and returned fire, police said. Both gunmen were killed, as was a bystander, they said.

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Howard Schneider 06 Sep, 2011

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