A young mother, who was one of three innocent spectators in Times Square, recalled begging for her life as she was bleeding blood on the ground – while Callgirl recorded her on the phone.
23-year-old Wendy Magrant, in an interview with The Post on Sunday, relieved the disturbing moments, saying she still had a bullet in her leg.
“I was shouting, ‘I don’t want to die, please help me!” – And people were just recording, they were not helping, “the tourist said on Saturday, during the shooting that left him, another woman and a 4-year-old girl with gunshot wounds.
Magrinut was waiting for her mother, stepfather, 8-year-old sister to come to the Line Friends shop on Broadway, as well as her own husband, Joel, who was holding her 2-year-old daughter, Allys. remember .
While they waited, they came to know of a fight between at least two men, one of whom “practically stood next to me,” recalled Magrin.
“One boy called another boy [N-word], And I told my husband, ‘It’s getting a bit hot[ed] Up, ” she said, as her husband moved in a queue in an attempt to rid himself and his daughter of the chaos.
“Everything was very fast, but the shooting started – and the first shot went into my leg,” he said.
“I just covered it and ran a little bit, just to protect my daughter and my family – but I can’t. The pain was too much, and I fell to the floor, ”she said.
“I was really dizzy, and I was losing blood and I just started screaming, ‘I got shot! I got shot! I don’t want to die!'” She said.
Magrint, who lives in the city for a family reunion, recalled his 2-year-old daughter repeatedly begging for protection.
“I was shouting, ‘I don’t want to die, please help me!” – And people were just recording, they weren’t helping, “she said. “I was on the floor and a group surrounded me, all with their phone recordings. I understand … people are in shock. But if you’re in shock, you shouldn’t be recording. But right now people are Are only. “
He said the only “amazing” NYPD officers who helped him were him.
“They were running away immediately, and they met me very fast for an ambulance, along with a 4-year-old girl who was hurt,” recalled Magrin.
“When I arrived at the hospital, I had a team waiting for me,” she said.
There, surgeons decided to remove the bullet, which was lodged high in his right thigh, fearing that it would cause damage.
“So I live with a bullet in my leg,” he said. “I am on a lot of painkillers but the pain never goes away. The pain is always there, you just have to hold it and hope it heals.
“Thankfully, I was really lucky that it didn’t hit any arteries or bone or muscle,” she said.
He also called it “the will of God” that the bullet hit him and to little Alice, saying, “If my daughter had been shot, I would have died.”
“All I kept thinking was, ‘I have a 2-year-old child – it could have been hers, or it was possible that I would never see her again.”
Magrinat said that thankfully his daughter was so young that she didn’t know “what was going on” and initially laughed when she saw her parents running away for their lives.
But Magrinat’s sister – who had come from Florida to see him with her mother – kept screaming and knowing all that was going on. It was painful for him, ”she said.
“My mom was also completely traumatized,” she said.
The family has met in New York before – but now there is no hurry to return.
“It was a painful experience, and I think it’s going to take a long time before I move to New York until gun violence is a little controlled,” Magrin said.
Detectives told the Post that detectives have surveillance footage that allegedly shows the shooter walking east outside the Minskoff Theater on West 45th shortly before 5pm.
The footage showed him raising his right arm and firing multiple rounds with a semi-automatic pistol, sources said – hitting three baitters.
Sources said a 4-year-old girl from Brooklyn was identified as Sky Martinez, who was hit in the lower left calf, with the bullet completely broken from the leg. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital for surgery.
Sources said that in addition to Magrinat, 43-year-old Marcella Aldana from Passaic, New Jersey, had an injury to her left leg, a shot was fired later in surgery.
The shooter was wearing a black jacket and black Adidas pants at the time – but was stripped before being caught on surveillance footage in a distinctive-looking shirt with number 9. On.
Early Sunday, officers with a canine unit were seen photographed with clothing from The Post Pulling, a suspect who was wearing a trash can at the corner of 10th Avenue and 42nd Street at the time of the shooting.
Officers were also seen moving in and out of a building, although it is not immediately clear whether it was tied to the suspect.
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