Gun Violence Hits Close to Home

Just days after National Gun Violence Day, the issue hit close to home when two incidents involving gun violence occurred in Scarsdale.

On Wednesday afternoon June 7 around 3 pm police received a call from The Ambassador of Scarsdale, an assisted living facility on Saxon Woods Road.

The caller said that an employee was threatening to kill another employee so police rushed to the scene. According to police, two kitchen employees got into an argument and one threatened to shoot the other with a gun.

Shortly afterwards, the employee fled on foot down Mamaroneck Road. A description of the suspect was issued and police were able to track him to the Saxon Woods Pool where he was arrested.

However, it turns out that though he threatened to shoot, he never displayed a gun and did not have one when he was arrested. Police also searched his route to see if a gun had been discarded but none was found.

Ultimately Timothy Shawn Crawford of New Rochelle was arrested for menacing in the third degree. He was released pending a 6-14 court date.

The second incident did involve a gun.

On the morning of June 10, residents of an apartment in Chateaux Circle awoke to find a shattered window and a bullet in the wall. They reported hearing a noise between 1 and 3 am the prior night but thought something hit the window. However, when they woke up the next morning they found the broken window and a bullet in the wall.

Police suspect that it came from a gun fired from the Bronx River Parkway and are trying to determine the type of bullet, as it is damaged.

Fortunately no one was in range of the window at the time of the incident.