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Girl, 5, grazed by bullet during gun fight between warring gangs on NYC street

Nypost · · 123 words · By Joe Marino; Zoe Hussain
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Girl, 5, grazed by bullet during gun fight between warring gangs on NYC street A 5-year-old girl was grazed by a stray bullet when she was caught in the middle of a gun fight between two warring gangs on a Bronx street Wednesday evening, according to cops and…

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Techniques found 1
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What happened

Girl, 5, grazed by bullet during gun fight between warring gangs on NYC street A 5-year-old girl was grazed by a stray bullet when she was caught in the middle of a gun fight between two warring gangs on a Bronx street Wednesday evening, according to cops and…

Why it matters

The child was grazed in the ear when shots were exchanged between two crews, believed to be gang-affiliated, on Southern Avenue in Longwood around 5:40 p.m., the NYPD and sources said.

Common ground

The youngster was an unintended target in the broad daylight shootout — which sent panicked residents scattering for shelter, the sources added.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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Loaded Language 70% confidence
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 4 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “No arrests have been made, and the investigation remains ongoing.”
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The search results mention 'no arrests' for incidents in Boston, Plant City, and a South Side shooting, but none of these relate to the specific investigation of the shooting on Southern Avenue in the Bronx.
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web search NEUTRAL — Police said the shootings of both men on Wednesday were not random, but as of Thursday evening, no arrests had been made. “Both investigations remain active and ongoing” said Boston police spokesman L…
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/12/10/dorchester-man-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Three days after a deadly shooting spree claimed the lives of two children, their mother, and grandmother, investigators in Plant City said there are still no arrests and no suspect information to rel…
https://www.tampabay28.com/news/local-news/east-hillsborough…
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web search NEUTRAL — South Side Shooting Raw Footage. The suspect took off in a vehicle after the shooting. Be the first to comment. So far, there have been no arrests. At last check, the victim was in critical condition.
https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/man-critically-injure…
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Claim 2: “The child was grazed in the ear when shots were exchanged between two crews, believed to be gang-affiliated, on Southern Avenue in Longwood around 5:40 p.m.”
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The provided evidence does not contain any mention of a shooting on Southern Avenue in Longwood at 5:40 p.m. involving a child grazed in the ear. The search results mention a child in Bridgeport and a child on the Upper West Side, but not the specific Longwood incident.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Longwood is a mixed-use neighborhood in the southeast Bronx in New York City. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise are East 167th Street to the north, the Bronx River and the B…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwood,_Bronx
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Longwood Avenue station is a local station on the IRT Pelham Line of the New York City Subway. Located at Longwood Avenue and Southern Boulevard in the Longwood neighborhood of the Bronx, it is se…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwood_Avenue_station
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Longwood station is a light rail station on the MBTA Green Line D branch, located on Chapel Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, on the border with Boston, just north of Longwood Avenue. It serves the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longwood_station_(MBTA)
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Claim 3: “A 5-year-old girl was grazed by a stray bullet when she was caught in the middle of a gun fight between two warring gangs on a Bronx street Wednesday evening”
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One web search result mentions a five-year-old Bronx girl grazed in the head on a Wednesday evening. However, other search results describe different incidents (one in Brooklyn, one in East New York), and there is no second independent source confirming this specific Bronx gang-fight incident.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lab Rats is an American comedy television series created by Chris Peterson and Bryan Moore that aired on Disney XD from February 27, 2012 to February 3, 2016. The series stars Billy Unger, Spencer Bol…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lab_Rats_episodes
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Teen Titans Go! is an American animated television series based on the DC Comics' superhero team, the Teen Titans, and DC Nation's New Teen Titans shorts, both of which are based on the 2003 Teen Tita…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Teen_Titans_Go!_episod…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Bronx ( BRONKS) is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with Bronx County, in the U.S. state of New York. The borough shares a land border with Westchester County, N…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bronx
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Claim 4: “She was taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition”
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While several search results mention people being taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition, none of them refer to the 5-year-old girl from the Bronx shooting described in the claims. The results refer to a teen stomping incident, overnight shootings, and a fire.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Harlem Hospital Center, branded as NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem, is a 282-bed, public teaching hospital affiliated with Columbia University. It is located at 506 Lenox Avenue in Harlem, Manhattan, Ne…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Hospital_Center
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Carlina Renae White (born July 15, 1987), also known as Nejdra "Netty" Nance, is an American woman who solved her own kidnapping case and was reunited with her biological parents 23 years after being …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Carlina_White
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ming (2000–2019) was a tiger that was found living in an apartment in Harlem, New York City, United States, in October 2003, when he was approximately three years old. Ming lived semi-openly with his …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_of_Harlem
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