What you should know
- Authorities are investigating the death of a 14-year-old boy who was found dead, face down, in a driveway of a Queens home Tuesday morning, police say.
- Officers responding to a 7:15 am call at a home on Beach 67th Street in Arverne found the teen on the ground. They then discovered a gunshot wound to the lower back.
- It’s unclear who lives in the house where the boy was found, and police also had no immediate information on possible suspects.
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NEW YORK — Authorities are investigating the death of a 14-year-old boy who was found dead, face down, in a driveway of a Queens home Tuesday morning, police say.
Officers responding to a 7:15 am call at a home on Beach 67th Street in Arverne found the teen on the ground. They then discovered a gunshot wound to the lower back.
It’s unclear who lives in the house where the boy was found, and police also had no immediate information on possible suspects.
The investigation is ongoing.
A look at the latest batch of crime data statistics from the New York City Police shows a stark picture: The number of shootings so far in 2022 has already surpassed the totals of some recent years.
What does that really look like? According to the city, police have recorded 816 shootings since Jan. 1, a number that exceeds the total for a few full years in New York City in the last decade. There were 789 shooting incidents in all of 2017, down from just 754 in 2018 and 776 in 2019.
However, that statistic alone doesn’t tell the whole story. So far this year, shootings in 2022 (862) are actually down from last year, but slightly up from 2020 (723). That’s really normal if you take a look at a graph of recorded shootings over the last 30 years.
Since 1997, there have only been four consecutive years in which the statistics to date consistently drop. Most of the time, every two years or every three years, there is a slight increase.
In fact, the jump in shootings between 2019 and 2020 was the largest in more than 30 years, and the year-to-date figure remains one of the lowest during that period. Only seven other years had fewer shootings in the same period than 2020.
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