It’s the bloody Apple

53 shot, 8 slain in week

Gun violence raged across the city this past week— with 13 people shot on Saturday alone, police sources said.

Between last Monday and noon Sunday, there were 44 shooting incidents, more than double the number for the same week in 2014, sources said. Fiftythree people were injured in the gun violence.

Murders also were up for the week, with eight people killed compared to five for the same period last year, according to NYPD data.

“This is a dangerous situation that must be addressed quickly before it gets out of control,’’ raged Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives’ Endowment Association, toThe Post on Sunday.

“Shootings are up because criminals feel free to carry guns again.’’

The bloody 24hour spree Saturday spanned four boroughs, sparing only Staten Island fromthe violence. Of the 13 people struck by bullets in eight separate incidents, two were killed, sources said.

The victim of one of the killings was a 33yearold man who was shot through the head while sitting in a parked car in Prospect Lefferts Gardens around 4: 15 a. m., cops said.

A 26yearold man who is believed to have exchanged several rounds with the victim checked himself into a local hospital after being shot in the chin. He was listed in stable condition.

Later that night, around 9 p. m. in The Bronx, five men in their 20s were shot when a gunman in a gray hooded sweatshirt opened fire as they were standing on the corner of Crest on Avenue and East 184th Street in Ford ham Manor.

One of the victims was shot in the chest and is in critical condition at New York Presbyterian Hospital. The other four victims did not suffer lifethreatening injuries, police said.

The rise in shooting incidents comes after a week of relative calm across the city, in which there were only 13 gun related incidents and 15 victims.