New York Post

Double trouble vs. one year ago

- By LARRY CELONA Additional reporting by Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Gunfire echoed through the city last week at more than twice the rate it did over the same period last year, according to new NYPD stats.

The department tallied 63 shootings June 22 through Sunday — up from 26 over the same one-week period a year ago, according to NYPD crime statistics.

In all, 85 people fell victim to gun violence over the period, the data show.

Two more shootings were logged early Monday, according to NYPD Commission­er Dermot Shea.

Most of the victims were expected to survive. But in one broad-daylight shooting on Saturday, a man wearing a blond wig and a trenchcoat opened fire on a man and a woman sitting on a stoop in East New York, killing them both, police and sources said. On Friday, a shooting outside Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ $80 million penthouse on Fifth Avenue left a 19-year-old woman dead and a 21-year-old man wounded, police said.

Also on Friday, a Queens man allegedly shot and killed a Connecticu­t teenager and wounded her boyfriend following a dispute in a bar in the Flatiron District, according to lawenforce­ment officials.

In at least three cases the gunshot victims refused to cooperate with investigat­ors.

Police brass this weekend blamed the surge in shootings over the first three weeks of June on “animosity towards police.”

However, police said that one favorable statistic is murders, which are down over the past week.

Six people were murdered last week, compared to nine for the same period last year, police data show.

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TRIBUTE: Brandon Hendricks, a former captain of the James Monroe HS basketball team, was mourned on Monday during a service led by the Rev. Oswald Denis at the Bronx court where the teen used to practice.

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