Mom hit by stray bullets near Fordham says shes had enough of NYC: Too many kids with guns

A Bronx mom who was struck by stray bullets near Fordham University was walking to the store to buy school lunches for her kids at the time — and says she’s now about had it with life in the Big Apple.Starli Sanchez, a 34-year-old city worker, said she remains traumatized after being hobbled by the slugs that hit her leg Sunday evening in a brazen shooting that also left a 57-year-old man dead on a Fordham Heights sidewalk.“We just have to get out of the city, actually, because it’s getting very violent,” said Sanchez, who is married with a 10-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son, to The Post on Tuesday.“It’s getting very bad every year because there are too many people with guns in the city,” she said.“There are too many kids with guns in the city.
They have to take care of the situation.The situation is getting out of hand with people having illegal guns everywhere in the city.”Sanchez was walking to the store with her cousin shortly before 7 p.m.
when the shots rang out — leaving her running for her life before realizing that she had been hit, she said.“I heard something behind,” she said.“It sounded like fireworks at first because I’m not used to gunshots, so I thought it was fireworks.
But I felt something on my leg.I felt something burning.“I told [my cousin] to run because I heard police and people say it’s a shooting, and I told her run, and we were running, and then she told me, ‘You’re bleeding! You’re bleeding!’ And I was like, wait.
I stood there, and then I went to the [ground] because I realized I had a wound.”Back home, her 35-year-old husband said he thought the worst when a neighbor told him, “Someone shot your wife,” prompting him to sprint to the scene of the gunplay.“I ran to the park, and I saw her,” he said.“I said, ‘Relax, relax.
Calm down.’ When I saw my wife’s lips, come on.I was scared.
They looked white and the skin on her face looked yellow.But I didn’t let her see I wa...