The founder of the Guardian Angels crime-fighting group, Curtis Sliwa, was shot and seriously wounded early Friday while riding in a cab, police said.
Sliwa, 38, was hospitalized in serious but stable condition with gunshot wounds in the lower abdomen and the leg, police said. Bellevue Hospital administrator Wes Anglin said the wounds did not appear to be life-threatening.It was the second attack on Sliwa in less than two months. He founded the controversial crime patrol 13 years ago.
Police officers on patrol found him lying in the street in the East Village neighborhood. He had dived out of the cab after it had traveled only a couple of blocks.
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No one else was injured and no weapons were recovered at the scene, police said.