Mom of innocent teen shot and wounded outside Stonewall Inn just happy her daughters alive: Prefer this to picking out caskets
The mother of the innocent teenage girl who was shot and wounded near the iconic Stonewall Inn while celebrating NYC Pride Sunday night said she’s just happy her daughter made it out alive — while questioning if anyone was safe anymore.The New Jersey mom said her heart dropped when she got a call from an NYPD officer telling her that her 17-year-old, Anastasia Cipriano, had been shot in the legs by a stray bullet fired by another teenage girl near the landmarked LGBTQ bar.“As a parent, that’s the call you never, ever want to get.
It’s terrible,” Star Lopez, 46, told The Post Monday.“You don’t think it’s going to happen to you.
When it does, it’s very scary.” Lopez’s daughter was an innocent bystander who got caught in crossfire of a feud between two groups of trigger-happy teens in Sheridan Square, just around the corner from The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village.The violence erupted around 10:15 p.m.— hours after the Village hosted the city’s annual Pride parade — when a 16-year-old girl opened fire on a male youth in an opposing group, police said.
“This female then produces a 9 millimeter pistol, places it inches away from that male’s head, and pulls the trigger two times,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters Monday.The shots missed the intended target, but one of the bullets struck Anastasia, who was visiting the city for Pride from Bayonne, NJ with a friend.“It’s disgusting.
She was a good kid trying to do a nice thing.Celebrating Pride.
Having a lovely time.And then this.
It makes me sick,” the girl’s mother said. Her daughter, who wants to be a doctor when she grows up, was at the wrong place at the wrong time, cops confirmed.“She had no connection to the shooter, and she had no connection to the previous fight that was taking place,” Kenny said. The 17-year-old was getting ready to head home when the shots rang out — wounding her and the 16-year-old girl accused of firing the first...