New York Daily News

Bullets and blades hurt 9 across city

- BY ESHA RAY AND THOMAS TRACY

A man in a Ghostface mask from the “Scream” movies shot two people in Washington Heights early Thursday — capping off a violent Halloween night in which five other people were shot and three were stabbed, authoritie­s said.

The masked gunman opened fire on W. 163rd St. near Broadway about 2 a.m., hitting a 24-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl. Rafael Sosa, 64, was home watching television when he heard the barrage of bullets.

“I heard Pam! Pam! Pam! Pam! — about three to four shots,” he said. “When I heard that I knew there was a problem.”

Medics rushed the shot man to Harlem Hospital, cops said. The teenager was taken to New York-Presbyteri­an/Columbia University Medical Center. Both are expected to survive.

One neighbor, who would only identify himself as Domingo, 53, said the younger victim is “

a beautiful person, very kind.” “She doesn’t have any problem with anybody.” No arrests have been made.

The violence began just before 4:30 p.m. Wednesday when a 14-year-old boy was shot in the mouth on Nostrand Ave. at Hillel Place in Flatbush, Brookyln.

The teen was recuperati­ng at Maimonides Medical Center Thursday morning, authoritie­s said. The gunman has not been caught.

Three hours later, a 17-yearold boy was shot in the leg on Flatbush Ave. near Ditmas Ave. — about a mile away from the earlier incident.

Both crimes are believed to be gang related, although it was not clear if they were connected.

Gunfire erupted in Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx, where a 37-year-old woman was hit in the leg by a stray bullet fired into a crowd at Third Ave. and Courtlandt Ave. in Mott Haven.

Three people were stabbed across the five boroughs, including a 22-year-old man sliced in a Queens barber shop during a fight with two men — one wearing a ski mask with lights on it, officials said.

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