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Hilton shooting: Upstate man charged with reckless endangerment

Greg Shillinglaw and Hoa Nguyen
A Rye Brook police vehicle is parked outside the Hilton Westchester hotel Saturday.

RYE BROOK – A 31-year-old man is charged with reckless endangerment after he accidentally fired a bullet through a wall at the Hilton Westchester, striking a guest in the room next door, police said Sunday.

The suspect, whose name was not released but was described as an upstate New York man at the hotel to attend a wedding, posted $1,000 bail after being charged with first-degree reckless endangerment, a felony.

The two guests were in their respective rooms about 1 p.m. Saturday when the suspect appears to have accidentally discharged his gun as he went to put it away, Rye Brook police said. The wall slowed the bullet, leaving a guest in the room next door with bruises to his leg, police said.

The upstate man had all the necessary permits to own and carry a gun, police said. The permits and gun were confiscated after the shooting.

Detectives were still investigating Sunday and did not release additional information. According to New York state law, a person is guilty of first-degree reckless endangerment when he shows a depraved indifference to human life and recklessly engages in conduct that creates a grave risk of death to another person.

A hotel manager said Saturday no one was available on the weekends to comment on the incident.

The Hilton was the scene of a grisly murder five years ago when Ben Novack, heir to the Fontainebleau hotel fortune in Miami, was beaten to death in his hotel room. His wife, Narcy Novack, and her brother, Cristobal Veliz, were convicted of orchestrating the murder.