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A bystander wounded during a wild shootout between rival gangs at a Bronx subway station thought he had been zapped by a powerful bolt of electricity — until he saw the blood, his sister told The Post on Tuesday.
Alpha Diallo, 28, had just gotten off the phone with his sister Monday when he was caught in the gangbangers’ crossfire at the Mount Eden subway station and struck in the right arm by a 9 mm slug, police said.
“He is still in a lot of pain,” his sister said outside St. Barnabas Hospital, where she said Diallo is in the intensive care unit after undergoing surgery.
“He thought he had [suffered] an electric shock,” she said. “Maybe he touched something — that’s what he told me. The next thing, blood is coming.
“When he saw the blood he got scared,” said the sibling, who asked not to be named. “He was shocked. ‘Oh, blood is coming out!’ He thought something exploded and he hit something and got shocked. Next thing blood is coming out.”
Diallo was one of six people shot, among them another innocent bystander — identified by police as Beltran Obed Sanchez, 35 — who was struck in the chest and was later pronounced dead at a Bronx hospital.
All of the other victims are expected to survive, including Diallo, a 71-year-old man, a 29-year-old woman, a 14-year-girl and a 14-year-old boy who sources said is being eyed as one of the possible shooters.
The teen is also a suspect in a Jan. 15 Bronx shooting that wounded a 17-year-old, the sources said.
Cops are still looking for two other suspects who fled the scene and released surveillance photos of the gun-toting pair on Tuesday, hoping they can be identified and busted.
“If you can imagine a chaotic scene,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters at a press briefing earlier on Tuesday. “You have a crowded train pulling into a crowded platform, one shot being fired. Now everybody is trying to scramble to get off the platform.”
Diallo’s sister said he had just gotten off the phone with her, saying he was getting off at the Mount Eden/Jerome Avenue station and planned to hop on a 4 train to get to 149th Street when he was shot.
She called the incident “devastating,” noting her brother could have easily been the one at the city morgue rather than recovering at the Bronx hospital.
“That could have been him,” she said. “My heart goes to that family. My brother was going about his business. He was just a customer on the train. Can you imagine?
“I take the train,” the woman added. “It’s not safe anymore. You are not safe anywhere.”
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