Overnight shootings leave 5 wounded
Five people were shot in upper Manhattan and The Bronx late Monday, cops said.
A man was shot in the left arm on Madison Avenue near East 135th Street in East Harlem, on the grounds of NYCHA’s Lincoln Houses, at around 6:20 p.m., cops said.
He was standing in front of a building when a man shot him in the left arm. The victim was taken to Harlem Hospital with non-lifethreatening injuries, police said. The suspect fled on a bike. Meanwhile, in The Bronx just after 9:30 p.m., two men were shot by a drive-by gunman just off a basketball court on Courtlandt Avenue near East 158th Street on the grounds of NYCHA’s Jackson Houses in Melrose, cops and police sources said.
One victim, a 43-year-old man, was grazed in the head, while the other, 28, was clipped in the right shoulder.
Both were taken to Lincoln Medical Center with non-lifethreatening injuries.
The gunman took off in a red vehicle, possibly a Honda CRV, north on Courtlandt, authorities said.
A few hours later, just before 11 p.m., a 28-year-old man was shot in the back and left hand on Westchester Avenue near Olmstead Avenue in the Parkchester section of the borough, cops said.
He reported hearing shots and then feeling pain, and was taken to Jacobi Medical Center with nonlife-threatening injuries.
About five blocks away, a 27year-old man walked into Westchester Square Medical Center with a wound to the right shoulder, authorities said.
Police say he was shot at at Raymond Avenue and Odell Street in the Parkchester section.
Two men took off in a light-colored Toyota after the incident, authorities said.
The Parkchester shootings appeared to be connected, police said.
It’s unclear whether the victims are known to each other.