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Farrakhan Muhammad, a CD peddler, was identified as the alleged shooter in Saturday’s horror — after a bizarre chain of events led cops to his brother, sources said. The suspected gunman had been caught on surveillance video at the scene of Saturday’s bloodshed, which occurred just before 5 p.m. in Times Square, and the images were widely disseminated.
Two sergeants with the Manhattan South Detective Bureau were then working a fatal overnight stabbing at a West 31st Street single-room-occupancy hotel when they spotted a man who looked almost identical to the alleged shooter, even down to his clothes, hanging around, sources said.
Farrakhan Muhammad Age
Farrakhan Muhammad is 31 years old.
Shooting Incident - Suspect
Cops approached the man to question him, telling him he looked just like the Times Square suspect, sources said.
“I’m his brother,” replied the man, who was not involved in the stabbing but said he lived at the SRO, according to sources. The man then told officers that his brother had been aiming for him during the Times Square shooting, sources said.
“Textbook detective work,” a source told The Post. Cops are still looking for Muhammad. We have our heavy hunters looking for him,” a source said. The suspect has been busted before, including last year for allegedly assaulting a random passerby who tried to intervene when Muhammad started hassling a couple on the street, sources said.
Muhammad allegedly pushed the good Samaritan into a trash can before the suspect’s buddy punched the victim in the face, sources said.
Victim
Wendy Magrinat of Rhode Island spoke about her harrowing ordeal to The Post on Sunday, adding that the bullet from Saturday’s horror is still in her leg.
“I felt really dizzy, and I was losing blood, and I just started screaming, ‘I got shot! I got shot! I don’t want to die! ” Magrinat recalled. ” ‘I have a 2-year-old, please get my daughter to safety! I have a 2-year-old — I don’t wanna die! I was screaming … ‘Please help me!’ — and people were just recording, they weren’t helping,” the mother said.
Magrinat said she was in Manhattan with her mother, sister, and other family members, including her little girl, to celebrate Mother’s Day when the nearby street dispute involving an illegal CD vendor turned violent.
Magrinat said she was in Manhattan with her mother, sister, and other family members, including her little girl, to celebrate Mother’s Day when the nearby street dispute involving an illegal CD vendor turned violent. Two other bystanders also were wounded — a 4-year-old girl and a 43-year-old woman from Passaic, NJ.
The Rhode Island tourist, referring to the shot tot, said, “I felt so bad for her mom. But thankfully, I’m told [the little girl] is doing amazing.”
Magrinat said she had been waiting to get into the Line Friends store on Broadway with her mom, stepfather, 8-year-old sister and her own husband, Yoel, who was holding their young daughter, Elise. As the family waited, they became aware of a fight between at least two men, one of whom was standing “practically next to me,” Margrinat recalled.
“A guy called another guy by the [N-word], and I told my husband, ‘This is getting a little heat[ed] up,'” she said, as her husband shifted ahead in line to try to distance himself and their daughter from the chaos.
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“Everything was so fast, but the shooting started — and the first shot went to my leg,” she recalled. I just covered it and ran a little, just to get my daughter and my family to safety — but I couldn’t. The pain was too much, and I dropped to the floor,” she said.
Magrinat said she screamed for help, to no avail.“I understand … people get in shock. But if you’re in shock, you shouldn’t be recording. But that’s how people are right now,” the mom said. She said the only ones who helped her were the “amazing” NYPD officers.
“They came running right away, and they got me to an ambulance really fast, along with the 4-year-old girl who was hurt,” Magrinat recalled to The Post by phone. When I got to the hospital, I had a team waiting for me,” she said. There, surgeons decided against removing the bullet that was lodged high in her right thigh, fearing it would worsen the damage.
“So I live with a bullet in my leg,” she said. “I’m on a lot of painkillers but the pain never goes away. The pain is always there, you just have to hold it and hope it gets better,” she said, saying she is unable to walk. Thankfully, I was really lucky that it didn’t hit any arteries or the bone or the muscle,” she said.
She also called it “God’s will” that the bullet hit her and not little Elise, saying, “I would have died if my daughter would have gotten shot. All I kept thinking was, ‘I have a 2-year-old child — it could have been her, or it was possible I’d never get to see her again.' Thankfully, her daughter is so young she “didn’t know what was going on” and initially laughed when she saw her parents fleeing for their lives, assuming it was a game, Magrinat said.
The 4-year-old girl from Brooklyn — identified by sources as Skye Martinez — was struck in the lower-left calf, with the bullet completely breaking the leg, sources said. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital for surgery. In addition to Magrinat, New Jersey resident Marcela Aldana was hit in the left foot, with a bullet to be removed in surgery later, sources said.
The shooter had been wearing a black jacket and black Adidas pants at the time — but seemingly stripped off before he was caught on surveillance footage in a distinctive-looking shirt with the number “9.” Early Sunday, officers with a canine unit were photographed by The Post pulling clothes matching what the suspect had been wearing at the time of the shooting from a trash can on the corner of 10th Avenue and 42nd Street.
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