{"id":144,"date":"2025-05-13T17:51:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T17:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pierina-ana-sanchez\/?p=144"},"modified":"2025-05-13T17:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T17:51:24","slug":"nyc-council-member-pierina-sanchez-releases-statement-on-2065-morris-ave-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pierina-ana-sanchez\/2025\/05\/13\/nyc-council-member-pierina-sanchez-releases-statement-on-2065-morris-ave-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Council Member Pierina Sanchez Releases Statement on 2065 Morris Ave. Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Bronx, NY<\/strong> (May 13, 2025) \u2013 Following a shooting next to her district office, NYC Council Member Pierina Sanchez released the following statement:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Monday, May 5, there was a shooting inside the building that houses my district office\u2014a horrifying act of violence that left a young person hurt, and our community shaken.<\/p>\n<p>As a mother, a neighbor, and the representative of this community\u2014where I was born, raised, and still live\u2014I am heartbroken and furious. A young person harmed another young person. This is not normal. This is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to <a href=\"https:\/\/goodshepherds.org\/program\/brag\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BRAG<\/a> for holding a rally to say loud and clear: Put the guns down. Lift the lives up. Stop the violence.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, we experienced two shootouts right outside this same building. But we didn\u2019t walk away\u2014we stayed. We organized. We block-partied. We invested in healing. And together, we saw the violence go down. But we will not rest until it reaches zero\u2014because every life in our community is sacred.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Through persistent advocacy, I founded the <a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pierina-ana-sanchez\/2025\/02\/26\/council-member-sanchez-launches-west-bronx-community-safety-partnership-alongside-elected-officials-and-local-organizations-to-combat-rising-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">West Bronx Community Safety Partnership<\/a>, and secured a commitment from the Governor for $10 million in resources to uplift our neighborhoods with a public health and community-driven approach to safety. We need to see those dollars hit our streets\u2014urgently.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I also pushed the Mayor to bring the Every Block Counts initiative to this block, focusing city agencies where the need is greatest. We were promised investments, including cameras. We need them now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our children deserve bright, safe futures. We will keep pushing, organizing, and investing in real solutions until every block in our community is a place of peace, promise, and opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>##<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bronx, NY<\/strong> (May 13, 2025) \u2013 Following a shooting next to her district office, NYC Council Member Pierina Sanchez released the following statement:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Monday, May 5, there was a shooting inside the building that houses my district office\u2014a horrifying act of violence that left a young person hurt, and our community shaken.<\/p>\n<p>As a mother, a neighbor, and the representative of this community\u2014where I was born, raised, and still live\u2014I am heartbroken and furious.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pierina-ana-sanchez\/2025\/05\/13\/nyc-council-member-pierina-sanchez-releases-statement-on-2065-morris-ave-shooting\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pierina-ana-sanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pierina-ana-sanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pierina-ana-sanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pierina-ana-sanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pierina-ana-sanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pierina-ana-sanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pierina-ana-sanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pierina-ana-sanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/pierina-ana-sanchez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}