Italian tourist lost walking in Staten Island gets shot

  • Marino Stocco, who came to New York on a work visa in July, was trying to go to the Garibaldi-Meucci museum on Staten Island on Sunday 
  • Police said that the man, who is residing in Queens, sat down at a local park right before 1pm when he noticed three people running
  • Soon after, he heard gunshots and realized that one hit him in the back of his shoulder, according to police sources
  • The museum was actually located two miles from the ferry terminal, in the opposite direction Stocco walked, and is closed on Sundays

An Italian tourist was shot on Staten Island after he got lost trying to find the Italian heritage museum. 

Marino Stocco, who came to New York on a work visa in July, was trying to go to the Garibaldi-Meucci museum on Staten Island on Sunday. 

The 57-year-old got lost wandering around in  New Brighton, mere blocks from where a man was shot and critically wounded on August 4. 

Marino Stocco, who came to New York on a work visa in July, was trying to go to the Garibaldi-Meucci museum on Staten Island on Sunday 

Soon after, he heard gunshots and realized that one hit him in the back of his shoulder, according to police sources

Soon after, he heard gunshots and realized that one hit him in the back of his shoulder, according to police sources

Soon after, he heard gunshots and realized that one hit him in the back of his shoulder, according to police sources 

Police said that the man, who is residing in Queens, sat down at a local park right before 1pm when he noticed three people running.

 Soon after, he heard gunshots and realized that one hit him in the back of his shoulder, according to police sources. 

Stocco was taken to Richmond University Medical Center with non life-threatening injuries.

The museum was actually located two miles from the ferry terminal, in the opposite direction Stocco walked, and is closed on Sundays

The museum was actually located two miles from the ferry terminal, in the opposite direction Stocco walked, and is closed on Sundays

The museum was actually located two miles from the ferry terminal, in the opposite direction Stocco walked, and is closed on Sundays.  

It was home to Antonio Meucci, an Italian inventor who is often looked as being the true inventor of the telephone. 

The inventor housed Italian general Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian general who pushed for the unification of Italy, when he sought refuge in the city.  

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