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https://nypost.com/2021/05/07/4-killed-7-wounded-in-latest-nyc-shootings/

4 killed, 7 wounded in latest NYC shootings
By Amanda Woods
May 7, 2021 | 10:44am | Updated

Four people were killed and seven others wounded, including an innocent bystander, in nine shootings in the city overnight, according to police.

The violence began on Cruger Avenue near Lydig Avenue in Morris Park just after 3 p.m., when Abdessamad Essafoui :confused:, 23, was blasted in the chest, authorities said.

He was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. No arrests have been made, and the motive is unclear.

About three hours later, a 33-year-old man, whose name has not been released pending family notification, was fatally shot in the torso during an argument inside a building on East 94th Street near Church Avenue in East Flatbush, cops said.

He was discovered lying unconscious and unresponsive and was taken to SUNY Downstate hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The victim and the shooter, who remains at large, were possibly known to each other, police said.

Then, around 9:30 p.m., Kamaal King, 40, was repeatedly shot in the torso on Lewis Avenue near Kosciuszko Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, authorities said.

He was taken to Woodhull Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, cops said.

The circumstances of the shooting are unclear, and no arrests have been made.

An unidentified man was gunned down inside Gouverneur Playground, at St. Paul’s Place and Third Avenue in Claremont Village, around 11:30 p.m., cops said.

He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

A 24-year-old woman who was walking down the street with her headphones on was also hit by the gunfire, cops said. The woman later walked into Lincoln Medical Center for a gunshot wound to the left arm.

A person of interest has been taken into custody with charges pending. Cops did not immediately know whether that person was known to either of the victims, or have information on the motive.

A 23-year-old man was blasted in the left shoulder, right leg and right hand around 10:10 p.m. Thursday following a dispute on Hawthorne Street near Nostrand Avenue in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, cops said.

He was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center with non-life-threatening injuries.

The suspect, who wore all black, took off, police said.

A 16-year-old girl was also shot, possibly by her boyfriend, inside a building on Argyle Road near Dorchester Road in Flatbush around 1:10 a.m, cops said.

The suspect was taken into custody with charges pending, authorities said. A Glock semi-automatic pistol was recovered.

The teen was taken to Maimonides Medical Center with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to her left arm, police said.

A woman who had been shot in an unknown incident walked into the emergency room at Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx around 1:15 a.m. Friday, cops said. A man walked in about 15 minutes later, according to police.

A 19-year-old man was shot in the torso by an unknown suspect on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard near West 120th Street in Harlem around 3:35 a.m., police said.

The victim, described as highly uncooperative, was taken to Harlem Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Another man was shot around 7 a.m. inside a building on West Burnside Avenue near Osborne Place in University Heights, cops said.

No details were immediately available on that incident.
 
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https://nypost.com/2021/05/08/four-people-wounded-in-nyc-shootings-overnight-2/

Four people wounded in NYC shootings overnight
By Dean Balsamini
May 8, 2021 | 1:14pm | Updated

Four people were hurt in three separate shootings in The Bronx overnight, police said Saturday.

A man was shot in the torso around 4:30 a.m. at the corner of East Tremont Avenue and West Farms road by an unknown assailant, cops said. The victim, 35, was taken to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition.

About 90 minutes earlier, around 3 a.m., at the corner of Manida Street and Viele Avenue in Hunts Point, a 32-year-old man was shot in the mouth and 30-year-old woman shot in the torso while sitting in a car police said.

The two victims were ambushed by attackers who pulled up in a car alongside the couple’s vehicle, and opened fire, cops said. The wounded duo was taken to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition, police said.

At around 1:50 a.m., a man was shot in the right leg on Morris Avenue and East 151 Street by an unknown gunman. The victim, 40, was taken to Lincoln Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/09/nyc-shootings-in-manhattan-and-bronx-leave-two-dead-one-hurt/

Bullets fly in Manhattan and the Bronx, leaving two dead, one wounded
By Tina Moore
May 9, 2021 | 11:01am | Updated

Two men were killed and two were wounded in separate shootings in Manhattan and the Bronx overnight, cops said Sunday.

Just before midnight, police responded to a 911 call of a wounded man inside of 110 East 99th Street in the Lexington Houses, police said.

The unidentified man was lying face down in the stairwell unconscious and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the torso, cops said.

Multiple shell casings were found in the hallway, police sources said.

The man was pronounced dead on the scene at 11:55 p.m., cops said.

The second fatal shooting came around 2:30 a.m. in the Bronx, when a 32-year-old man was struck in the chest in front of 1203 Westchester Avenue, cops said.

The victim, whose identity wasn’t immediately released, was taken to Lincoln Hospital and declared dead at 3 a.m.

Police were looking for video of the crime.

Then, around 3:40 a.m., a 30-year-old man was shot once in the back of the head at 4555 Third Avenue in the Bronx, police said.

He was taken to Saint Barnabas Hospital in critical condition, police said.

A witness told cops a man approached the victim from behind and shot at him before fleeing, police sources said. There were no immediate arrests.

Meanwhile, a 26-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound near East 4th Walk and the FDR Drive around 4:30 a.m., when a stranger tried to snatch his phone, cops said.

The man said he began running away but then heard a gunshot and felt a sharp pain in his right leg, police said.

He brought himself to Mount Sinai Beth Israel and was expected to survive.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/10/nyc-shootings-keep-soaring-up-86-percent-over-2020-nypd/

NYC shootings keep soaring, up 86 percent over 2020: NYPD data
By Craig McCarthy
May 10, 2021 | 1:55pm | Updated

The gun violence in Gotham more than doubled last week — capped by a wild shooting in Times Square that left a 4-year-old girl among three people wounded.

The NYPD recorded 36 shooting incidents with 43 victims during the seven-day period ending Sunday — up from 15 incidents and 16 victims during the same dates last year, according to police statistics released Monday.

The weekly tally continued the more than year-long trend of surging gun violence in the Big Apple, which began during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Yorkers endured a bloody April with almost three times the number of shootings compared to last year.

So far this year, 451 shootings have been reported with 505 victims, up 86.6 percent from 2020 and double the numbers recorded in 2019, the statistics show.

Both shootings and shooting victims in 2021 are also outpacing 2016 figures by 67 percent.

Murders are also up by 27 percent from last year, which recorded 115 homicides compared to 146 this year, according to the data.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/11/four-people-shot-including-two-teens-in-nyc-shootings/

Four shot, including two teens, in series of NYC shootings
By Tina Moore, Larry Celona and Kenneth Garger
May 11, 2021 | 10:35pm | Updated

Four people were shot, including two teenagers, in separate shootings across the Big Apple on Tuesday, police said.

The bloodshed began at about 3:20 p.m. when a 22-year-old man was struck two times in the right hip while he was at Saratoga Park in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to police.

The victim was taken to Kings County Hospital and is expected to survive, authorities said.

Shortly before 5 p.m., a 17-year-old boy was grazed in the neck in a shooting on Prospect Place near Ralph Avenue in Crown Heights.

Witnesses told police a group of men opened fire at the victim, sources said.

The teen was taken to Brookdale Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, police said.

Just after 5 p.m., on Dean Street in Brownsville, a 16-year-old boy involved in a fight with five males was shot in the left leg, according to police.

The teen was taken to Kings County Hospital and is expected to recover.

In East Harlem at about 7 p.m., a 23-year-old man walked into NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan with a gunshot wound to his thigh, police said.

He refused to tell police where he was shot, sources said. :rolleyes:

No arrests were made in any of the shootings on Monday night.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/13/at-le...ms-of-gun-violence-reported-overnight-in-nyc/

At least half a dozen more victims of gun violence reported overnight in NYC
By Tina Moore and Craig McCarthy
May 13, 2021 | 3:34pm | Updated

At least half a dozen people were shot across the Big Apple overnight, police said Thursday — as the surging gun violence shows no signs of slowing.

One of the incidents was fatal — and allegedly involved the gang member accused of opening fire on NYPD officers in Brooklyn around 11:15 p.m.

Sources said Boyce Hayward is suspected in a shooting just minutes earlier in Bushwick that left a 28-year-old man dead and a 21-year-old man hospitalized.

Both victims — who sources said were members of the Crips gang — were shot multiple times in the torso inside a white BMW SUV before the suspect fled.

The fatal encounter adds to the soaring number of shootings so far this year, which has seen more than 450 shooting incidents with over 500 victims of gunplay.

Just before 1 a.m., a 63-year-old was shot in the right leg during a mugging on Avenue D near Albany Avenue in East Flatbush, cops said. The man was taken to Brookdale Hospital and the shooter is in the wind.

Two more people were injured — a 33-year-old man and a 21-year-old man — in two separate shootings just minutes apart around 11:10 p.m. in Brownsville, cops said.

The 33-year-old man was discovered with a gunshot wound to his left arm after getting chased by cops at St. Marks and Kingston avenues. Police said he had fled from another shooting scene and had a loaded pistol on him. He was taken to Kings County Hospital.

Cops recorded two more shootings in the Bronx and Queens Wednesday night.

In the Queens incident, a 26-year-old man was hit by gunfire in the neck while he was driving his car on 145th Avenue, just a few blocks from Springfield Park, around 7:50 p.m., according to police.

The shooter took off in a black Nissan with Texas plates, according to cops, who said the victim was expected to survive.

In the Bronx, a 29-year-old man was grazed in the back by a bullet just after 7:15 p.m. on Creston Avenue near East 188th Street during an argument with a 52-year-old man, whom the victim knew, cops said.

Cops caught up to the alleged shooter, Marlon Bell, after he was attacked in a separate incident and brought into St. Barnabas Hospital, according to police.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/15/how-nycs-rise-in-shootings-could-affect-commutes-to-school-work/

How NYC’s rise in shootings could affect commutes to school, work
By Dean Balsamini
May 15, 2021 | 11:02am | Updated

Brazen gunslingers are shooting the daylights out of the Big Apple.

After a shocking execution in Park Slope and last Saturday afternoon’s shooting spree in Times Square, The Post requested crime data to see if the impression that criminals have become bolder in broad daylight is true.

Sadly, it appears so.

As of April 25, the NYPD recorded 374 shootings this year — and 119, or 32 percent, occurred between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. During the same period last year there were 213 shootings — with 63, or 30 percent, happening in daylight.

The 2-percent uptick in the percentage of daylight-to-overall shootings was not as worrisome to the cops’ union as the surging frequency of daytime gunplay: the increase from 63 shootings last year to 119 this year represents an 89-percent explosion.

“The increase in brazen, broad-daylight shootings just confirms what we already knew: violent criminals have no fear anymore,” Police Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch told The Post.

“They know that the police are underfunded, understaffed and hobbled by pro-criminal politicians and a broken justice system,” he added. “They know that if we arrest them in the morning, they’ll be back out in time for dinner. If New Yorkers don’t want a city where criminals control both the night and the day, they need to push elected officials to act.”

Among the recent daylight bloodshed:

On May 8, shortly before 5 p.m., Farrakhan Muhammad, a 31-year-old CD peddler, allegedly opened fire in a bustling Times Square. The alleged triggerman was aiming for his brother following a dispute but struck a 23-year-old woman in the right thigh, a 43-year-old woman in the left foot and a 4-year-old girl in the left leg, police said. The suspect was nabbed Wednesday in Florida.

On April 21, 38-year-old Latisha Bell allegedly executed her ex-girlfriend, Nichelle Thomas, 51, in Park Slope, with a bullet to the back of the head in a chilling murder caught on video. The gunfire erupted just before 1 p.m. at St. Marks Place and Fourth Avenue. Bell later surrendered herself to police at Brooklyn’s 78th Precinct station house and confessed, cops said.

On April 26, a 20-year-old man was shot dead while sitting behind the wheel of a parked SUV on the Upper East Side just before 2:30 p.m., police said. An unknown gunman walked up to the Honda HRV on East 95th Street and shot Chris Delinois of Brooklyn in the stomach, cops said. The NYPD released a shocking video of the brazen murder.

On April 29, a 17-year-old student died after being shot outside a Brooklyn charter school, cops said. Devonte Lewis was fatally struck in the stomach and hand around 2:45 p.m. in front of the Urban Dove school on East 21st Street in Midwood. The NYPD is looking for two gunmen who ran from the scene.

“I haven’t seen this many daylight shootings in a long, long time,” said Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. “It appears that the shooters have no fear of the police nor being identified in broad daylight. That behavior is a harbinger of worse things to come, especially with the warm weather and relaxed Covid restrictions.

“It’s a sign of a city in decline.”
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/15/one-killed-two-hurt-in-overnight-shootings-in-nyc/

One killed, two hurt in overnight shootings in NYC
By Dean Balsamini
May 15, 2021 | 2:38pm | Updated

A man was killed and two others hurt in separate overnight shootings across the city, cops said.

A 26-year-old man was shot twice in the chest and killed early Saturday morning in Hollis, but managed to drive roughly 10 blocks away before succumbing to his wounds, police and sources said.

The victim, who has not been publicly identified, was with three others at a house party at 199-14 Hollis Ave. when the group got into his Acura, sources said. The driver heard gunshots and felt pain as he began to drive off, police sources said.

The car was found around 4:15 a.m. at the corner of Francis Lewis Boulevard and 111th Avenue, cops said, and the victim was pronounced dead at the hospital. No arrests have been made and an investigation is ongoing.

Just 15 minutes earlier in the Bronx, around 4 a.m., a man was shot in the back on Lacombe Avenue near Commonwealth Avenue in Soundview. The victim, 38, was taken to Jacobi Hospital in stable condition, police said.
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Late Friday, also in the Bronx, around 10:30 p.m., a 24-year-old man was shot in the buttocks and leg at Laconia and Burke avenues and also brought to Jacobi Hospital in stable condition, police said. The unidentified gunman remains at large.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/16/11-shootings-in-eight-hours-in-nyc-leave-several-injured-and-one-dead/

Eleven people shot in eight bloody hours across NYC, one fatally
By Larry Celona, Joe Marino and Jesse O’Neill
May 16, 2021 | 1:33am | Updated

A person was shot near the Port Authority bus station in Midtown Manhattan Saturday night — becoming the 11th shooting victim across the city in a bloody eight-hour stretch, according to police sources.

A man and a woman allegedly shot Shawn Spencer, 41, in his leg during an argument at a 7-11 convenience store on 8th Avenue and 37th Street, just before 11:30 p.m., the NYPD said.

Abdoulahi Dialloand, 25 and Tawania Thomas, 27 have been taken into custody and are facing charges after cops recovered a gun, according to investigators.

Hours earlier, five people were shot in one incident in the Claremont section of The Bronx, one of them fatally, sources said.

Three injured men and a woman walked to the hospital after bullets rang out at 9 p.m., while a fourth man died at the 1625 Webster Avenue scene, according to sources.

Elsewhere in the borough, two teenagers were shot and wounded in Eastchester Gardens, sources said. A man was taken to Lincoln Hospital after being hit by gunfire at 168th Street and University Avenue, and another victim was gunned down at 2579 Decatur Avenue, just steps from Fordham University, according to sources.

In Far Rockaway, Queens, a woman was injured after being shot on Beach 56th Street, sources said.

All 11 incidents happened between 4 p.m. and midnight, the sources said.

No shootings were reported in Brooklyn or on Staten Island during the violent time frame.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/17/four-shot-one-fatally-overnight-in-nyc-cops/

Four shot, one fatally, overnight in Brooklyn, the Bronx: cops
By Amanda Woods and Tina Moore
May 17, 2021 | 9:22am | Updated

Four people were shot overnight — including one fatally — as gun violence continued in Brooklyn and the Bronx, cops said.

The most recent shooting came at 1:25 a.m. Monday, when a 16-year-old boy was struck in the left arm in the Belmont section of the Bronx, cops said.

The teen was walking on Belmont Avenue near East 188th Street when a gray sedan pulled up next to him and someone started firing in his direction, according to police sources.

He tried to get away, but the motorist caught up to him and opened fire again, the sources said.

The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition.

Around 12:35 a.m., a 31-year-old man showed up at the Kings County Hospital Center emergency room in Brooklyn with a gunshot wound to the chest, cops said.

He later succumbed to his injuries at the hospital, police said.

It was not immediately clear where he was shot, and the circumstances surrounding the incident were also unknown.

About 15 minutes earlier, a 30-year-old man was shot in both legs and one shoulder when someone let off rounds during a dispute outside a house party on Remsen Avenue near Avenue A in East Flatbush, according to cops and police sources.

Three shell casings were recovered at the scene, the sources said.

A 31-year-old man was blasted in the torso and one of his legs during an attempted robbery on Selwyn Avenue near East 172nd Street in the Claremont section of the Bronx around 10:30 p.m. Sunday, cops said.

Two armed suspects approached the victim, and another man, 38, demanding their belongings, according to police sources.

The older man told authorities he handed over his fanny pack — with $2,500 inside — to one of the suspects, while the other shot the victim while attempting to rob him too, the sources said.

The victim was taken to Bronx Lebanon Hospital by private means and was in stable condition, police said.

The suspects fled in a black Lexus, and three shell casings and one fired bullet were recovered, according to the sources.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/19/nyc-gun-violence-five-people-shot-one-fatally-overnight/

Five people shot, one fatally, in overnight NYC violence
By Amanda Woods
May 19, 2021 | 3:04pm | Updated

Five people were shot — one fatally — in gun violence across the city overnight, cops said Wednesday.

Two alleged gangbangers, 20 and 24, were leaving a deli at Willis Avenue and East 137th Street in Mott Haven around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday when someone got out of a car and started firing at the pair, cops said.

The gunman started chasing them — striking the older victim numerous times, and the younger man once in the leg, police said.

Officers stationed at a nearby mobile command post called for medical aid for the victims, cops said.

The older man, identified as Charles Wilkins, 24, was taken to Lincoln Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

The younger victim was listed in stable condition.

No arrests have been made.

Both victims are members of the ABG gang — which stands for Any Body Get It — a subset of the Crips, according to police.

The fatal victim had 13 sealed arrests, police said.

Around 1:20 a.m. Wednesday in Staten Island’s Graniteville neighborhood, a 39-year-old man was grazed in the right shin and shot in the left leg during a dispute with two other men on Elson Street near Lamberts Lane, cops said.

He was taken to Richmond University Medical Center in stable condition.

Earlier Tuesday evening, a 52-year-old man was blasted in the leg around 8:15 p.m. at the playground of NYCHA’s Seth Low Houses in Brownsville, cops said.

A black Nissan pulled up and someone hopped out and started firing into the playground, cops said.

As the trio tried to flee, cops busted them, police said.

The victim was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center in stable condition.

And about an hour earlier, a 24-year-old man was shot in the left hand at East 119th Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem, cops said.

He was taken by private means to Harlem Hospital, also in stable condition.

The violence comes as the Big Apple grapples with a surge in shootings.

The latest statistics show an 81 percent increase in shootings so far this year, as of Sunday — 490 incidents compared to 270 during the same period in 2020.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/20/7-shot-2-killed-in-wild-night-of-violence-in-nyc/

7 shot, 2 killed in wild night of violence in NYC
By Larry Celona, Tina Moore, Joe Marino and Kenneth Garger
May 20, 2021 | 2:40am | Updated

Two people were killed, and at least nine others injured, in a gory stretch of violence across New York City on Wednesday night, police and sources said.

The bloodshed included 7 gunshot victims, including an 8-year-old boy, two people who were stabbed and two more who were slashed across Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, according to police and sources.

One of the fatal victims was a 27-year-old woman who was fatally stabbed by her ex-boyfriend in her Harlem apartment at about 8:45 p.m., according to police.

Amid the struggle, the woman was also able to stab her attacker, once in his neck and another time to his chest, according to police and sources. He was left in critical condition.

The other fatal victim was a 33-year-old man who was shot dead inside an East Flatbush building about two hours later.

In St. Albans, Queens, a drive-by shooting at about 9:45 p.m. left three people wounded, including the 8-year-old boy and his 39-year-old father. A 57-year-old man was also hit by the gunfire.

Three other men were shot, two in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn, according to police sources.

And the rash of subway knifings continued Wednesday night, with a 54-year-old woman randomly slashed inside the 14th Street-Union Square station at about 10:10 p.m.

Additionally in Brooklyn, a man who showed up to Brooklyn Hospital Center with a cut to his face told the staff he got injured during a fight inside the Fulton Street subway station, sources said.

The NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association decried the latest round of Big Apple violence.

“DON’T BLAME US …the Cops didn’t change the laws in NYC the elected officials in NYS and City Council did!!” the group tweeted.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/22/nyc-shootings-leave-teen-dead-bystanders-injured-outside-restaurant/

Two NYC shootings leave teen dead, bystanders injured outside restaurant
By Jesse O’Neill and Larry Celona
May 22, 2021 | 3:11am | Updated

A teenager was killed and two innocent people were shot outside a restaurant in separate incidents of gun violence on Friday night in New York City, police said.

Shots broke out at around 9 p.m. near Muse, a Thai eatery on Washington Avenue in the Prospect Heights area of Brooklyn, according to the NYPD.

A 41 year-old female who was eating outdoors at the restaurant was grazed in the eye by a bullet and 31-year-old man who was walking by was shot in the foot, cops said.

Neither victims were the intended targets of the 17-year-old suspect, who had gotten in a dispute in a nearby park that spilled out into the neighborhood, according to police.

The teen was arrested and the gun was confiscated, according to cops. His name wasn’t released.

A half-hour later in Queens, an 18-year-old was shot in the throat at Beach 30th Street and Seagirt Boulevard in Far Rockaway, police said.

He was pronounced dead at St. Johns Hospital, and detectives are still looking for his killer.

Elsewhere in the borough, gunfire was reported in Long Island City, several blocks from the Roosevelt Island Bridge, but no one was hit, police said.

Earlier in the evening, an 83-year-old man died after being brutally assaulted by a fellow resident at his Bronx nursing home, according to the NYPD.

The 87-year-old alleged killer is in custody after sources said he bashed the victim’s head into concrete at Pinnacle Multicare Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Co-Op City.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/22/four-people-wounded-overnight-in-nyc-shootings/

Four people wounded overnight in NYC shootings
By Dean Balsamini
May 22, 2021 | 4:14pm | Updated

Four people were hurt in four separate shootings across New York City overnight, police said Saturday.

In the latest incident, a 36-year-old man was shot in the stomach on Liverpool Street and Ferndale Avenue in Jamaica, Queens around 9:10 a.m., cops said.

The wounded man, who did not know his assailant, was taken to Jamaica Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

About 30 minutes earlier, around 8:40 a.m. in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, a 41-year-old man was shot four times in the left leg during a robbery on 34th Street and Avenue D, cops said.

The victim, who walked into Kings County Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, told police three unknown men exited a car and took his wallet and sneakers.

Two hours before that, an unidentified man walked into New York-Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center with gunshot wounds to his left arm and leg and torso, cops said.

The victim said only that he had been shot earlier outside Jerome Avenue near Mount Hope Place in Mount Hope, the Bronx.

The overnight gunfire began at around 1 a.m. Saturday when a 31-year-old man was shot in the leg on Valentine Avenue near East 196th Street in the Fordham section of the Bronx, police said.

The “uncooperative” victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition, cops said.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/23/almost-30-people-shot-over-the-weekend-in-new-york-city/

NYC sees nearly 30 shot this weekend alone
By Tina Moore and Bruce Golding
May 23, 2021 | 3:04pm | Updated

Nearly 30 people have been shot across New York City this weekend — with nearly half a day left to go, law-enforcement sources told The Post on Sunday.

As of around 2 p.m. Sunday, 29 victims had been struck by gunfire — one fatally — since Friday, with 11 wounded in just the hours after Saturday ended, sources said.

A veteran NYPD source blamed most of the shootings on gang warfare, saying, “These kids are having running gun battles and innocents are getting shot.”

“Nobody is interested in hearing how many shots are fired but if people knew how many shootings occurred where there are no victims — it’s by the grace of God,” the cop said.

And while the grim tally is nowhere near the record highs of the bloodstained 1990s, “the weekend’s not even over yet,” the source said early Sunday afternoon before adding: “There were just two more right now.”

The victims include an 18-year-old man who was fatally shot in the throat at Beach 30th Street and Seagirt Boulevard in Far Rockaway, Queens, on Friday.

In addition, a Manhattan federal prosecutor, Mollie Bracewell, was struck in the left eye with a stray bullet fragment while dining outside Muse restaurant in Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights neighborhood Friday night.

A man who was walking nearby, Benjamin Bustamante, was also shot in the foot by a stray bullet when an unidentified 17-year-old allegedly opened fire during what cops described as a gang dispute that spilled out of a nearby park.

There were also two killings Friday that didn’t involve guns, with one man fatally stabbed in northern Brooklyn another beaten to death in northeastern Bronx, sources said.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/23/nyc-gunplay-keeps-surging-with-eight-shot-overnight/

NYC gunplay keeps surging with eight shot overnight
By Tina Moore and Sam Raskin
May 23, 2021 | 12:35pm | Updated

Eight people were shot in New York City overnight as gun violence continues to surge in the Big Apple ahead of the summer, police said Sunday.

Just before midnight, three young men were shot at the corner of East 171st Street and Washington Avenue in the Bronx’s Claremont neighborhood, police said. An 18-year-old and 19-year-old were both shot in their legs, and a 23-year-old was shot in the left shoulder, cops said.

The 19-year-old man was taken to Lincoln Hospital via private means, and the other two victims were rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital by medics, according to police.

About 45 minutes later, a 27-year-old man was shot in his right knee during a dispute with a stranger at 295 Maple St. in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, sources said. The victim was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition, police said.

The gunplay continued just after 2:15 a.m. in Inwood at the corner of 9th Avenue and West 206th Street, where a man on a blue motorcycle attempted to rob a 28-year-old man by brandishing a gun, cops said. After refusing to hand over money, the gun-toting biker wearing a red jacket shot the man in the right leg, snatched the wounded man’s chain off his neck while he was lying on the ground and sped off on his motorcycle, cops said.

The victim was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, police said.

In Norwood, two young men were walking on the sidewalk near 275 Gun Hill Road when a person in a black sedan fired off several rounds at them, cops said. A 21-year-old was hit in the torso and a 19-year-old got shot in the right arm. They were taken to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition, according to police.

Twelve shell casings were recovered from the scene, according to sources.

Meanwhile, in Hunts Point in the Bronx, a 22-year-old man was struck by a bullet in the left shoulder during a dispute with another man just before 4:30 a.m.

The wounded man went to Bronx Lebanon Hospital via private means, police said. His condition wasn’t immediately known.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/24/arrests-down-amid-rising-nyc-crime-disturbing-data-show/

Arrests down amid rising NYC crime, disturbing data show
By Larry Celona and Bruce Golding
May 24, 2021 | 6:33pm | Updated

Violence surged across the Big Apple last week — with significant upticks in shootings, robberies and serious assaults — as arrests plunged, alarming NYPD statistics revealed Monday.

The total number of arrests during the week that ended Sunday fell 10.2 percent, from 3,290 to 2,953, compared to the same period last year, official CompStat figures showed.

Gun arrests plummeted 24 percent, from 129 to 98, even as shootings skyrocketed 72 percent, from 25 to 43.

The number of gunfire victims shot up even more, from 27 to 52, for a 92.6 percent increase.

“This will be the story in New York for the foreseeable future: less arrests, more shootings and more victims,” a frustrated Manhattan cop said.

“They could hire 10,000 cops, but it won’t matter unless the politicians change the laws and keep criminals in jail.”

The NYPD recorded double-digit increases in five of the seven categories of major crimes last week.

Robberies were up 44.4 percent, from 205 to 296, and felony assaults rose 35.3 percent, from 357 to 483, according to the latest data.

The smallest spike — 28.6 percent — was in murders, which went from seven to nine.

The worst trends involved thefts, with grand larcenies up 41.8 percent, from 491 to 696, and the number of stolen vehicles virtually doubling from 157 to 234, or 49 percent.

Crimes in the transit system were up a staggering 161.9 percent, from 21 to 55, despite the temporary addition of 250 police patrols by Mayor Bill de Blasio following months of demands by MTA and union officials.

The increase was fueled in part by a series of subway slashings, including that of an ex-con who stunningly told The Post that crime underground “has gotten out of hand.”

“The only thing they can do is basically have more police officers,” said Dimitrios Zias, 44, who served a 1-1/2-to-3-year prison sentence for a 2017 hate-crime attack on two Jewish women he mistook for Muslims.

Last week’s shooting victims included a Manhattan federal prosecutor, Mollie Bracewell, who was wounded Friday when a stray bullet fragment struck her eye while she was dining outside a restaurant in Brooklyn’s trendy Prospect Heights neighborhood.

A man who was walking nearby, Benjamin Bustamante, was also accidentally shot in the foot during what cops said was a dispute between rival gangs that began in a nearby park.

The only categories of major crimes that declined were rapes and burglaries, which both dipped 15.4 percent.

But rapes are still up 1.9 percent this year to date, from 517 to 527, the statistics show.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/24/at-least-6-people-including-2-teens-shot-in-nyc-overnight/

At least six people, including two teens, shot in NYC overnight
By Amanda Woods, Tina Moore and Larry Celona
May 24, 2021 | 1:05pm | Updated

At least six people — including two teens — were shot in separate incidents across the Big Apple overnight, cops said.

The youngest victim was a 17-year-old boy who was blasted in the back around 10:15 p.m. Sunday during a dispute at Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 120th Street in Harlem, cops said.

He was taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition.

Shortly before 1 a.m. Monday, an 18-year-old woman was shot in the back when someone fired rounds from a car at Beekman Avenue and St. Mary’s Street, near St. Mary’s Park, in Mott Haven, police said.

It was unclear whether the victim — who was taken to Lincoln Medical Center in stable condition — was the intended target.

In Queens, a 35-year-old man was left clinging to life after he was shot on 90th Street near Park Lane South around 11:30 p.m. Sunday in Woodhaven, cops said.

He was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in critical condition.

The circumstances of that shooting were unclear.

In Harlem, two apparently unrelated shootings occurred about an hour apart at the same intersection, cops said.

A 43-year-old man was grazed in the head around 11:50 p.m. at West 143rd Street and Malcolm X Boulevard, police said.

A red vehicle fled the scene, and the victim simply reported hearing shots and feeling pain, authorities said.

He was taken to Harlem Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Around 12:45 a.m. Monday, a 21-year-old man was blasted in the left calf in front of 135 West 143rd Street, cops said.

He, too, went to Harlem Hospital and is also listed in stable condition. He was described as uncooperative.

About 15 minutes later, a 25-year-old man was struck in the right side of the neck during a dispute at Mount Eden and Topping avenues near Claremont Park in Claremont Park, police said.

He was taken to Lincoln Medical Center by private means with non-life-threatening injuries.

The latest series of gunplay comes as NYPD data on Monday showed 43 shootings between May 17 through Sunday — a 72 percent spike compared to 25 incidents during the same period last year.

The Big Apple is also seeing an 80 percent surge in gun violence with 531 shootings recorded this year versus 295 in 2020, the CompStat data shows.

Meanwhile, bullets also flew overnight in Suffolk County, leaving seven people in hurt in separate incidents, authorities said.

Several people were gathered near the basketball courts at the Bay Shore Marina on South Clinton Avenue around 8:30 p.m. when gunshots were fired in their direction from outside the park, cops said.

Four of the people — a 19-year-old woman, two 22-year-old men and a 23-year-old man — were struck by one shot each. They were treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a local hospital.

Then around 12:30 a.m. Monday in Huntington Station, someone in a passing car opened fire on a small group of people outside a home on 11th Avenue between West 11th Street and Norden Lane, police said.

Three men — two 22-year-olds and one 25-year-old — were taken to a local hospital by their friends, cops said. Their injuries were also non-life-threatening.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/felony-assaults-on-nyc-subways-nearly-doubled-last-week/

Felony attacks on NYC subways nearly doubled last week
By David Meyer
May 26, 2021 | 9:00am | Updated

Felony assaults surged on the subways last week, the Post has learned.

Police recorded 24 felony assaults during the week of May 17 to May 23, according to the NYPD Transit Bureau figures shared by an MTA source — compared to 13 the previous week, May 10 to May 16.

Felony assaults averaged just eight per week from March 29 through April 25, the NYPD figures show.

Violence underground last week included a man bloodied by a hammer early Sunday morning and two men shot Saturday during a stickup gone wrong.

Transit leaders have pushed for months for more NYPD on mass transit, and last week the city responded by adding 250 extra shifts of cops.

The MTA, meanwhile, is hiring more of its own cops — and is spending $2.2 million per month on 200 private security contractors, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

Publicly available Transit Bureau stats set to be presented by NYPD at Wednesday’s MTA board meeting will show crime dropped from March to April — as MTA leaders and city officials traded barbs over safety on the subway.

Overall, police reported 111 major felonies during the month of April, compared to 118 the previous month, the publicly available stats show. Those categories include murder, rape, robbery, grand larceny, felony assault and burglary.

April saw 2.09 crimes per million riders, according to NYPD — a continued decline in the crime rate from March, when there were 2.32 crimes per million riders, but still up from pre-pandemic levels in 2019, when there was around 1.47 crimes per rider.

Final stats for May won’t be made available until June’s MTA board meeting, but the weekly figures shared by an MTA source show troubling trends.

The last four weeks of data showed 59 felony assaults, compared to 34 in the four weeks previous. Grand larcenies also spiked last week, from 8 to 17 — though the total for the most recent four weeks was flat compared to the previous four weeks.

Cops also reported 16 sex crimes during the week ending May 23, compared to 11 the previous week. Average daily ridership increased by about 50,000 over that same time, according to publicly available MTA stats.

The MTA’s customer surveys show safety from crime and harassment is a top concern of regular subway users.

Lisa Daglian of the MTA’s Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee welcomed the additional officers and security guards.

“Hopefully as riders return and there’s more of a uniformed presence, their comfort level is going to increase,” Daglian said.
 
https://nypost.com/2021/05/26/one-killed-two-injured-in-separate-bronx-shootings/

One killed, two injured in separate shootings in the Bronx
By Larry Celona, Tina Moore and Kenneth Garger
May 26, 2021 | 12:04am | Updated

Three men were shot, one fatally, in a pair of shootings in the Bronx on Tuesday night, police and sources said.

In the first shooting, a 31-year-old man sitting inside a black BMW sedan was gunned down on Arthur Avenue near East 178th Street in East Tremont at about 6 p.m., according to cops and sources.

The victim was struck multiple times in the torso by an unknown man, police and sources said.

He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, but could not be saved, authorities said.

About an hour and a half later, two men, ages 23 and 22, were shot on Home Street near Fox Street in East Morrisania, sources said.

The 23-year-old was hit in the chest and arm, sources said, and the younger man was shot in the back.

Both victims were also taken to St. Barnabas Hospital — one by private means — with injuries that are not considered life threatening, sources said.

No arrests were immediately made in either incident, police and sources said.
 
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