NEW YORK – Another wave of gun violence over the holiday weekend has stained New York City with blood, leaving three people dead and more than 20 injured in more than a dozen separate incidents.
After a terrible start to the year, the city’s gun problem has improved and shooting incidents during the first half of 2022 were actually down 12% compared to 2021. But the abrupt spasms of violence, particularly on weekends, they still affect all five boroughs.
The first fatal shooting occurred at 11:30 p.m. Monday at a deli in East New York. The circumstances of the dispute are still unclear, but two men, ages 21 and 23, are dead and a third, 18, is in critical condition in Brookdale. A suspect is in custody.
Around the same time, in the Bronx, three people were shot on Prospect Avenue in the Belmont section. A 62-year-old man is dead and two other men, ages 23 and 26, are in stable condition at St. Barnabas Hospital.
Police updated the number of shootings and injuries on Tuesday morning, indicating that in total there were 14 shootings with a balance of three deaths and at least 21 injuries in separate shootings.
Several of these occurred within hours, between 10 pm and 2 am, in Rochdale Village (four shot in the feet at a barbecue); in Fordham (a man was shot in the torso); in Norwood (a man shot in the shoulder) and Morrisania (a man shot in the chest).
Nighttime shootings in New York City follow the Illinois 4th of July parade shooting that claimed six lives, as well as a shooting at a Fourth of July event in Philadelphia that left two police officers injured and sent people seeking shelter.
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