British father, 41, on weekend trip to New York with wife is ‘lucky to be alive’ after masked gunman shot him in the leg and arm in Brooklyn
A British tourist has told how he was ‘lucky to be alive’ after being shot twice during a trip to New York.
Cameron Robertson, 41, miraculously survived despite being hit by two ‘dum dum’, or hollow point bullets, fired by masked gunmen on the streets of Brooklyn while on holiday with his wife Jill.
And it is believed he became involved in an attempted assault on local police officers while returning from a rock concert with his wife Jill Robertson, 42, on September 17.
The bemused father-of-two had flown to the Big Apple for a four-day trip to see two bands Nothing But Thieves and Kid Kapichi in the trendy Bushwick area.
According to the NYPD, the gunmen who wounded Robertson are still at large.
Cameron Robertson, 41, from York, said he is still in pain but is grateful he was not more seriously injured in the ordeal
Robertson was fired within hours of the shooting and flew back to Britain
Robertson credited his wife Jill with keeping him from bleeding after the shooting
The couple was walking towards a supermarket after the show when the gunfire erupted.
βWe heard a bang, my wife heard screaming and we jumped into a deli next door. That’s when I realized I had been shot, initially in the arm,β Robertson said The York Press.
“I was in some pain and trying to control my breathing while my wife applied pressure to my wound.”
‘The police came, checked my entire chest for any wounds and then applied tourniquets. The ambulance crew then quickly arrived on scene and took over.’ he added.
After the shooting, the father of two was rushed to a local hospital, where he heard a bullet go straight through his arm and another into his thigh.
Robertson was released around 11am the next morning with a letter giving him permission to fly back to England. The couple landed around 8 p.m.’
He called Virgin Airways “great, they took great care of me.”
The music fan said he was lucky to escape with minor injuries, but said his wife is still dealing with the “mental effects” of the incident.
On Instagram, Robertson credited his wife’s quick thinking in putting pressure on the wound and preventing it from bleeding.
Since the shooting, Robertson has undergone surgery to remove one of the bullets. The bullet will be returned to New York to assist in the investigation.
“There was an escalation of shootings in the area, so it’s possible they were targeting the police and we were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said.
The bullet removed from Robertson was returned to the NYPD as their investigation into the shooting continued
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In addition, Robertson said he was shocked to see the $16,532 hospital bill, which will be paid by his insurance company.
Robertson said in an Instagram post after the shooting that he was “in a little pain.”
βOne bullet went straight through my bicep and the other went into my quad and is just under the skin on the back of my thigh,β he also said.
“The incident has not stopped us from traveling back to the United States, even though we have probably exhausted New York and have other places we would like to visit,” he told the press.
Robertson appears to have taken the incident to heart, writing on Instagram that traveling to the Big Apple ultimately cost him “an arm and a leg.”
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The statistics paint a bleak picture of the city’s efforts to tackle crime, which has soared since the pandemic β despite Adams repeatedly claiming his campaign to solve the problem was successful.