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Bullets fly inside NYC ‘after-hours club,’ striking man twice: police source

Nypost · · 181 words · By Tina Moore
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Why it matters

Add The New York Post on Google A man was shot in the stomach and arm when gunfire rang out inside a potential “after-hours club” in a high-rise in Midtown, Manhattan, on Saturday morning.

Common ground

The victim, believed to be in his 30s, was shot inside 247 West 30th Street — a building near Penn Station — around 7:30 a.m., police said.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 7 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “A man was shot in the stomach and arm when gunfire rang out inside a potential “after-hours club” in a high-rise in Midtown, Manhattan, on Saturday morning.”
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The provided evidence consists of general Wikipedia definitions of the word 'man', descriptions of Midtown Manhattan streets, and a comic book store. There is no evidence provided that mentions a shooting incident in a high-rise after-hours club.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — 51st Street is a 1.9-mile (3.1 km) long one-way street traveling east to west across Midtown Manhattan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51st_Street_(Manhattan)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The avenue runs south from West 143rd Street in Harlem to Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. The section in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Avenue
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Midtown Comics is a New York City comic book retailer with three shops in Manhattan and an e-commerce website. The largest comic book store in the United States, the company opened its first store in …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midtown_Comics
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Claim 2: “A splattering of blood remained on the sidewalk outside the building between Seventh and Eighth Avenue, about a half dozen blocks from the iconic Empire State Building.”
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The evidence mentions a 'Bagel War' on West 35th Street and general Manhattan street closures, but nothing regarding blood found on the sidewalk outside 247 West 30th Street.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The John Golden Theatre, formerly the Theatre Masque and Masque Theater, is a Broadway theater at 252 West 45th Street (George Abbott Way) in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Golden_Theatre
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Michael Chetwynd Slamer ( SLAY-mər; born 8 July 1954) is a British guitarist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Slamer
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Upper West Side (UWS) is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is bounded by Central Park on the east, the Hudson River on the west, West 59th Street to the south, and We…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_West_Side
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Claim 3: “Detectives found one shell casing on the second floor of the location, which appeared to be an “after hours club or event space,” a police source said.”
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The evidence provided includes a YouTube video about a restaurant game, game guides for 'Mortal Shell 2', and highway descriptions for Route 247. There is no evidence regarding a shell casing found at 247 West 30th Street.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Canusa Street (French: rue Canusa) is a road part of Quebec Route 247. The road primarily runs east–west, connecting Rue Principale to the west and Rue Railroad to the east. A particular 0.38 mi (0.61…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canusa_Street
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — State Road 247 (SR 247) is a southwest to northeast state highway between U.S. Route 129 (US 129 and SR 249) in Branford, Suwannee County, Florida and US 90 (SR 10) in Lake City, Columbia County, Flo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_State_Road_247
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — South Dakota Highway 247 (SD 247) is a short state highway running from Roscoe to an intersection with SD 10 and SD 45 east of Eureka. The route is just more than 23 miles in length.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Dakota_Highway_247
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Claim 4: “The victim, believed to be in his 30s, was shot inside 247 West 30th Street — a building near Penn Station — around 7:30 a.m., police said.”
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The evidence provided includes Wikipedia entries for roads in Quebec, Pennsylvania, and Florida (Route 247) and a serial killer named Fred West. None of the evidence mentions a shooting at 247 West 30th Street in Manhattan.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Canusa Street (French: rue Canusa) is a road part of Quebec Route 247. The road primarily runs east–west, connecting Rue Principale to the west and Rue Railroad to the east. A particular 0.38 mi (0.61…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canusa_Street
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Frederick Walter Stephen West (29 September 1941 – 1 January 1995) was an English serial killer, serial rapist and child molester, who committed at least twelve murders between 1967 and 1987 in Glouc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pennsylvania Route 247 (PA 247) is a 50.5-mile-long (81.3 km) state highway located in Lackawanna, Susquehanna, and Wayne counties in Pennsylvania. The southern terminus is at Interstate 84 (I-84) in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Route_247
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Claim 5: “EMS rushed him to Bellevue Hospital, where he was undergoing surgery later, cops said.”
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While Wikipedia confirms that Bellevue Hospital exists in NYC and defines EMS, there is no evidence provided that a specific victim from a shooting was transported there for surgery.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bellevue Hospital (officially NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue and formerly known as Bellevue Hospital Center) is a hospital in New York City and the oldest public hospital in the United States. One of…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Emergency medical services (EMS), also known as ambulance services, pre-hospital care, or paramedic services, are emergency services that provide urgent pre-hospital treatment and stabilisation for se…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (abbreviated as NYP) is a nonprofit academic medical center in New York City. It is the primary teaching hospital for Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University C…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewYork-Presbyterian_Hospital
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Claim 6: “There were no arrests and police were investigating.”
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The provided evidence mentions no arrests in a shooting in San Pedro and a shooting at Virginia State University, but contains no information regarding arrests for the specific incident at 247 West 30th Street.
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web search NEUTRAL — However, no one was charged in connection with the deadly shooting.According to limited information, the assailants reportedly fled by boat, heading south. The San Pedro Sun reached out to the island …
https://www.sanpedrosun.com/crime-and-violence/2026/07/30/no…
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web search NEUTRAL — On November 6, 2019, 22-year-old Santiago Diaz was shot on East 7th Street in Perris, California. When deputies arrived after reports of gunfire, they found three victims. Two survived.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1msdly49YA
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web search NEUTRAL — No arrests have been made in the shooting. Officers responded near the VSU Quad Annexes at around 1:30 a.m. local time Saturday to find five individuals suffering from gunshot wounds, according to the…
https://ruralradio.com/kneb-am/abc_news/5-injured-in-shootin…
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Claim 7: “The man made his way outside and flagged down police officers on the street, according to an NYPD spokesman.”
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The web search results provided are about shooting games, a school shooting in Minneapolis, and a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger in Idaho. None of the evidence corroborates the claim about a victim flagging down NYPD officers.
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web search NEUTRAL — Set your sights on a range of free shooting games, from fast-paced online FPS games to addictive 2D shoot em’ ups. You’ll find all the latest and greatest online shooting games in this collection.
https://www.crazygames.com/c/shooting
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web search NEUTRAL — 6 hours ago · MINNEAPOLIS — A shooter opened fire with a rifle Wednesday through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis and struck children celebrating Mass during the first week of school, k…
https://spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/news/2025/08/27/minn…
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 3, 2026 · Some details are emerging about the man suspected of opening fire outside an In-N-Out Burger location in Idaho over the weekend, killing three people, as a motive in the mass shooting re…
https://abcnews.com/US/burger-shooting-suspect/story?id=1353…
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