2023-05-06 19:13:00
May got off to a bloody start, leaving three people dead and five injured last night – most of them young – as it began the first weekend of the month leading up to summer, normally the most violent time of the year in New York.
The three homicides happened within minutes of each other. The fatal streak began this morning in The Bronx, where a man was fatally shot at 4371 3rd Avenue, near Bathgate Avenue, around 4:30 am, police said. The unidentified 29-year-old victim was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital.
Police said they recovered a firearm from the youth, who he was “quite well known in NYPD”, the sources told the New York Post.
Around the same time, another 29-year-old man received shot in the eye outside a mosque at East 139th Street and Morris Avenue, also in the Bronx. He was pronounced dead at the scene. “There is no link (of the crime) with the mosque,” a police spokesman said.
Also around 4:30 am, but in Brooklyn Two young men, ages 23 and 24, were shot in the chest outside 276 Belmont Avenue, near Sutter Avenue in East New York. Both were taken to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition.
Less than an hour after the two homicides in the Bronx, around 5:20 a.m. a dispute inside a warehouse in Queens ended with a 41-year-old man being stabbed and later died at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital.
That deadly confrontation took place inside 214-57 Jamaica Avenue, Queens Village. After the stabbing he presented murderer, a 68-year-old man, He went upstairs and barricaded himself, but was later arrested “without further incident,” the NYPD said.
A little earlier, around 4:20 a.m. in Queens, a man was shot in the leg off 36th Avenue and Northern Boulevard in Jackson Heights. That 21-year-old victim was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where she is listed in stable condition.
Hours earlier, a 20-year-old man was shot in the chest while riding his scooter in a parking lot under the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge on Randall’s Island at 8:30 pm Friday. Police believe he was hit by stray bullets. He was rushed to Harlem Hospital and is expected to survive.
Less than two hours later, at around 10:10 p.m. Friday, a 27-year-old man was grazed in the back by a bullet at Southern Boulevard and East 180th Street in the Bronx. The suspect sped away in a white sedan, police said.
Outside the city there was also gun violence last night: A 15-month-old baby and two adults were seriously injured in a shooting at a home in Monticello, in the sullivan county from New York, 96 miles northwest of NYC.
Young people are increasingly protagonists in gun violence in New York as victims and perpetratorsparticularly shootings and attacks with bladed weapons.
The pandemic, the anti-police climate and the penal reform have been identified as factors that have triggered crime in the city. In September an NYPD report found that recidivism among teens had increased dramatically over the past five years and the number of gunmen and their underage victims had tripled.
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