Broad-day AR slays among 12 boro shootings

A man wearing a wig and trenchcoat and brandishing an AR-15-style rifle gunned down two people sitting on a stoop in East New York on Saturday, capping off another spate of shootings across the city in what has become a terrifying routine.

The mysterious Brooklyn bloodbath, in which a man and a woman were slain in broad daylight, was the culmination of a 14hour stretch in which 17 others were shot in a dozen incidents across four boroughs, police said — a disturbing climb in gunfire over the past several weeks to levels not seen since the 1990s.

The numbers are eerily similar to just a week prior, when another 17 people were hurt in 13 shootings on June 20.

At least two of those wounded in the latest round of violence were in critical condition late Saturday, police said, including a man shot in the head in The Bronx and another struck by bullets at a Brooklyn house party.

In the East New York shooting, the two victims — identified by sources as Chioteke Thompson, 23, and Stephanie Perkins, 39 — were slain by a gunman in a bizarre costume.

Wearing a blond wig and blue trenchcoat, the shooter fired more than 20 rounds outside of 551 Van Siclen Ave. at 12:38 p.m. before running north up the block, sources said.

Thompson was shot once in the face, and Perkins was hit once in the back. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.

Thompson and Perkins were found slumped over on the stoop with their arms around each other, a source said, with Thompson cradling Perkins’ head.

Police said they recovered 23 shell casings along with a weapon at the scene but it was unclear whether the gun was the murder weapon, sources said.

One nearby apartment dweller said they heard five shots, which they mistook for firecrackers before hearing police sirens.

At least 50 nearby residents and relatives gathered at the scene, with several women sobbing and screaming, “No!” and “I can’t! I want to die.”

“I just lost my niece. I can’t talk,” one man said.

Another woman, who declined to give her name, lamented, “This girl didn’t deserve to die like that.”

“I just found out it’s one of my neighbor’s daughters lying there dead. It could be my child. It could be me,” she said. “She seemed to be a nice person. I didn’t know her too well.”

The woman fumed, “They take away the plainclothes detectives, there is no undercover police, so that’s what you get. Only blue suits sitting in their cars.

“There is a lot of drugs on this block. Two people dead, that’s unacceptable. We got babies here. We gotta walk down the street. The city needs to do a lot more for this community, to make it safer for our people.”

Police were canvassing the crime scene for video evidence.