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Teen migrant from NYC hotel shelter shot and wounded: sources

A 13-year-old migrant living at a city-funded Midtown hotel was shot and wounded by a gang of thugs in another burst of violence surrounding Big Apple asylum seekers, sources said.

Cops responded to a 911 call at 124 West 30th St. in Koreatown shortly after 9 p.m. Sunday on a report of a shooting at that location, law enforcement sources said.

The victim, who has been living at the Roosevelt Hotel, the city’s intake center for thousands of migrants flocking into the five boroughs, had been hit by a single gunshot to his leg, the sources said.


A 13-year-old migrant staying at the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown was shot and wounded over the weekend by three assailants who remain on the loose. G.N.Miller/NYPost

His assailants fled eastbound on West 30th Street and remain on the loose.

The teen was rushed to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The surge of about 210,000 migrants in the five boroughs — with more than 65,000 still in city care — has led to a surge in violence in some city neighborhoods since the spring of 2022.

Earlier this month a 26-year-old migrant at the massive tent shelter on Randall’s Island attacked security guards at the facility — and then went after the responding NYPD cops.

The assault came weeks after a migrant mom was shot dead outside the violence-plagued tent city.

Another massive shelter at Floyd Bennett Field, a former federal airfield converted into a migrant facility, has also become a hotbed of unrest and violence since the site was converted into a migrant shelter.


Migrants in Manhattan.
Some trouble-making migrants who have flocked to New York City have kept NYPD cops busy, including several assaults on police officers in the Big Apple. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post

The shelter saw a domestic assault in December and has been the site of a string of assault arrests – and even a gun bust, according to police.

In January, migrants, including children, had to be briefly evacuated from the site in the middle of the night as dangerous winds closed in on the city, raising concerns of toppled tents or fatal flooding.

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