Shopping Cart Attack In The Bronx Injures Sagne Ibrahima And Camara Lounceny (VIDEO)

Two cab drivers are currently in stable condition after being brutally struck in the head by a shopping cart in what officials believe was a deliberate attack stemming from a taxi driver rivalry.

Drivers Sagne Ibrahima And Camara Lounceny were walking into the entrance of a Home Depot at the Gateway Center near 149th Street and River Avenue Monday evening, when a cart from the third floor plummeted onto the drivers.

A Home Depot employee described the scene, "I saw the cart next to the guys. They weren't moving. It was like a hole in one guy's head and blood everywhere. It was just scary."

The two victims were taken to Lincoln Hospital, where 52-year old Lounceny was first listed as being in critical condition but has since been upgraded to stable condition.

Monday's attack marks the city's second shopping cart assault in the last three months.

In October, a 47-year old mother and philanthropist was left in critical condition after two teenage boys tossed a shopping cart from the fourth floor of an East Harlem Target.

Slowly recovering, Marion Hedges was left in a coma and suffered serious brain damage. Hedges forgave the children and voiced her concern for the economic and social conditions that the boys were being raised in.

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Comments

[XS VENOM]

09:16 PM on 02/01/2012

They did it with a shopping cart now, when they get older they would have used a gun anyway.

[XS VENOM]

09:09 PM on 02/01/2012

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[bar1ed]

12:43 AM on 02/01/2012

Some brains just stop evolving!

[FancyAmerican]

11:19 PM on 01/31/2012

I hate people.

I always say I'm moving to Alaska since no one practically lives there but I'll probably be bored 'cause no one practically lives there.

Eff life.

[ronruthnik]

08:55 PM on 01/31/2012

Yea, but this is the social life the Republicans want us to have, as common serfs, y'know.

[Tammi Peterson Mitchell]

08:42 PM on 01/31/2012

SHAME ON THE PERPETRATORS. THEY WERE OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER. (I tried to post another comment for some reason it didn't make it past the huff-gestapo.)

[FOXYROSE]

08:00 PM on 01/31/2012

Seems mankind is going down a sewer - what is wrong with people! Attempted murder!

[liquidwallpaper]

06:52 PM on 01/31/2012

What do you expect from the Bronx? I used to live there and there are so many low lifes that have nothingbetter to do than to beat ,rob and kill there own people. Why the heck hasn't Home Depot put up high fences of the edges to prevent this after the last time?

[Gregory Schwartz]

06:43 PM on 01/31/2012

Marion Hedges is a better person than I am, that's for sure! If I was the victim, I would be doing everything I could to find out what's the problem with those kids families? Kids will be kids and we all pulled some pranks when we were young (I am very guilty). But when a "harmless prank" becomes attempted murder, there are some serious problems somewhere, and those problems usually start in the home where the kids are being raised. God Bless Marion Hedges!

[Susan Schmidt Baker]

06:19 PM on 01/31/2012

Wow, maybe these stores shouldn't allow shopping carts beyond the first floor. What's wrong with people?

[ungrumpy1]

07:20 PM on 01/31/2012

Agreed, it's pretty easy to have a wire around the perimeter installed and the carts would have one or two wheels lock up. It would at least have to be carried up and people might notice a person toting a shopping cart up.