The 27-year-old boyfriend of a NYPD worker has been shot and injured in a drive-by shooting outside a Dior store in Manhattan

As violence broke out around the city on July Fourth, the 27-year-old boyfriend of an NYPD officer was shot and injured in a drive-by shooting outside a Dior store in Manhattan.

Last night, when the man sat in his car outside the upscale store in Soho, he was shot many times.

He suffered injuries to his right underarm and was sent to Mount Sinai Beth Israel hospital, where he is likely to survive.

On a bloody Fourth of July that resulted in at least three fatalities and 24 injuries on Monday, the most recent bloodshed to plague the Big Apple took place.

In relation to the shootings, no one has been detained. There were 24 shootings from Friday through Sunday, totaling 31 victims.

In the same period last year, there were 15 incidents and 19 victims.

Before firing at least three rounds outside the Dior shop last night, the shooter drew up next to the victim around 5pm in a white BMW with New Jersey licence plates.

The man, who is the boyfriend of an NYPD officer, was shot in the right underarm during the drive-by shooting and was taken to the hospital by his girlfriend.

According to police, the number of shootings over the long weekend increased by 60% over the previous year.

After making a commitment to keep New Yorkers safe over the long weekend, Mayor Eric Adams announced the massive increase.

‘We are going to use every tool in our toolbox to provide New Yorkers a safe and enjoyable July 4th holiday weekend,’ Adams said.

Adams has worked hard to remove illicit firearms from New York City’s streets, and as a result, homicides are down 13% from the previous year and shooting victims are down 9%.

However, compared to last year, serious crimes in New York are up 38% this year, with robberies up 39%, burglaries up 34%, and felony assaults up 19%.

The execution-style killing of a mother with a baby in a stroller last week in front of an Upper East Side playground shocked the entire city.

The 20-year-old victim was walking with her three-month-old baby when the hooded shooter approached her and ‘fired a single shot into her head from a very close range,’ NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell told reporters.

Adams blamed the shooting on the ‘over-proliferation of guns’ and said that criminals have ‘no fear in using these guns on innocent New Yorkers.’

‘The over-saturation of guns, and dangerous people that repeatedly leave our criminal justice system to continue actions like this, it is what’s making the New York City Police Department and other law enforcement agencies…difficult to fight this issue,’ he added.

The area where the shooting occurred is an affluent and normally quiet neighborhood where violent street crime is less common than in many other parts of New York.

Across the street from the murder scene is the Samuel Seabury Playground, which was filled with children who witnessed the horrific shooting.

‘It doesn’t matter if you are on the Upper East Side or East New York, Brooklyn,’ Adams said.

In late June, President Joe Biden signed into law a legislation that marks some of the biggest changes to federal gun law in decades.

‘Lives will be saved,’ Biden said during the signing ceremony in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.

‘From Columbine to Sandy Hook to Charleston, Orlando, Las Vegas, Parkland, El Paso, Atlanta, Buffalo, Uvalde, and for the shootings that happen every day in the streets that are mass shootings, we don’t even hear about the number of people killed every day in the streets. Their message to us was to just do something,’ the president said.

The city currently experiences 13.3 significant crimes for every 1,000 residents annually, according to the NYPD. Rapes, murders, and felony assaults account for 2.8 per 1,000 population of all violent crimes annually.

Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to contact NYPD detectives at 1-800-577-TIPS.

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