Has anyone here ever witnessed a shooting?

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7. The first time I went to NYC

I went with a friend who knows the city pretty well.

It was a couple weeks before Christmas and we had a pretty good time going around seeing all the sites...it even began to snow, which made it all seem kind of magical in Washington Square Park, until heavy snow began to come down at an angle in an expected snowstorm.

My friend drove, so we got to his car with the intention of heading out of the city before the weather got too bad.

The snow was so heavy that he didn't see the sign for the Lincoln Tunnel until we were already passing it. So he said he would just go around the block, come back around, and take the exit.

As we were going down the street we heard a series of loud popping sounds and I jokingly said something like: "Great, we're trapped in a blizzard and now someone's shooting."

Only my friend pointed out it wasn't a joke: there was a guy standing on the sidewalk firing what looked like an UZI into the window of a largely boarded-up building. We drove right by him as he did this. He just stood and popped one shot off after another. Then he just turned, put the gun inside his jacket, and casually walked down the street.

As the guy was shooting, it dawned on us that he could have easily turned and shot us as we drove by. For whatever reason, the shooter didn't even seem to notice we were there.

One of the weirdest experiences of my life.