Maggie Carrie Heckstall is one of the surviving victims of the shooting that happened Wednesday evening at Irving Plaza. Since the incident, the young Bronx native has been cooped up in her hospital room recovering from a gunshot.wound to her leg
“I am out of surgery but still in the hospital,” Heckstall said in a recent Instagram post. “I have not spoken to any reporters yet. I am just focusing on recovery & trying to see my family.”
According to reports, while police are investigating the circumstances of the shooting, Heckstall, who was just a bystander, is part of #NYPD’s investigation. Because of this, Heckstall has had a difficult time seeing her family.
“[Police] want to investigate and we get that, but don’t make her life miserable because she took a stray bullet,” says Heckstall’s lawyer Emel McDowell. “We understand the NYPD is doing their job, but she’s not under investigation. “She’s not in custody for the crime. She didn’t ask for police protection. She’s obviously a victim in this. They’re making her life worse by doing this.”
Heckstall has even had to go as far as to send a cease and desist letter to the NYPD to have the officers in her room removed from the hospital.
“The infringement upon Ms. Heckstall’s 4th Amendment right to be free from illegal search and seizure is emotionally draining for Ms. Heckstall and also an impediment to her speedy and full recovery,” the C&D letter read.
>As you recall, Troy Ave was arrested this week in connection with Wednesday’s shooting. According to Heckstall’s lawyers, the young model was sitting in the green room with her boyfriend when Troy Ave opened fire.
“He came into the area they were in, the green room where everyone was sitting. She just heard the shots,” said McDowell, recalling what Heckstall told him. “It was initially three, four shots, then another shot, then four more — pop, pop, pop. She felt the burning sensation, then started screaming and hit the ground.”
Troy Ave was arrested at a Manhattan hospital on Thursday and charged with attempted murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
