One slain, 7 shot in city a.m. mayhem
A RASH OF shootings across the city early Sunday morning left one man dead and seven people wounded, police said.
In Queens, a 36-year-old man was shot to death around 2:15 a.m., cops said.
The killer fired one shot into Niheen Donigan’s head on the corner of 109th Ave. and 171st St. in Jamaica, according to officials.
Paramedics rushed Donigan to Jamaica Hospital, where he died.
Donigan had a long history with crime and violence, police said. In 2001, Donigan fatally shot a 28-year-old man in Jamaica — about a mile from where he was killed — and served nearly 10 years at Wallkill Correctional Facility before being paroled in July 2012.
The first shooting Sunday was in Harlem, where an unidentified gunman shot a 20-year-old woman in the buttocks in the lobby of the Drew Hamilton Houses on W. 143rd St. around 1:15 a.m., cops said.
She was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia, where she was in stable condition.
Later, a gunman blasted three people outside an apartment building in the Bronx, authorities said.
The shooter fired at two teens and a 20-year-old man on W. 165th St. near Woodycrest Ave. in Highbridge around 2:45 a.m., cops said.
The youngest victim, 15, was struck in his right leg. A 17-year-old was hit in his chest and the oldest victim was shot in the back, police said. The trio was taken to Lincoln Hospital and all were expected to survive.
On the Lower East Side, a shooter wounded three men when an argument turned violent just after 6 a.m., authorities said.
The gunman sprayed bullets on Ridge St. near Stanton St., hitting a 25-year-old and a 35-year-old in the leg and a 23-year-old in the leg and stomach.
“I heard five shots, really loud,” said a witness, Johnny, who declined to give his last name.
The three men were taken to Bellevue Hospital and were in stable condition.
“I was out here about five hours ago, and the same guys were fighting down the street,” the witness said. “One guy got punched in the face pretty hard.
“I see them around all the time. They’re all kids from the neighborhood,” he added.
There were no arrests in any of the shootings, police said Sunday.