A Department of Sanitation worker was shot once in the leg in Hells Kitchen Thursday, after getting into a dispute with his daughter’s ex-boyfriend, police told the Post.
The bullets rang out around 11 a.m. in front of 515 West 52nd St., leaving the man wounded, cops said.
The shooting took place at the man’s daughter’s apartment after the argument broke out, an NYPD spokeswoman told the Post.
Investigators are on the scene of a Midtown shooting on Thursday morning. William FarringtonThe boyfriend and his brother arrived at the apartment, prompting the woman to call her father.
Police said they don’t yet know who fired the shot.
The suspects fled in a black Mercedes belonging to the victim, and police put an alert out for the vehicle.
The city employee was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital with a bullet wound to his left thigh.
A bullet casing is seen on 52nd Street between 10th and 11th avenues after a Sanitation worker was shot. William FarringtonThe victim’s condition wasn’t immediately available.
He was the second sanitation worker injured in two days.
Police say a black Mercedes that was used in the shooting was recovered on 27th Street. William Farrington