NYC shootings spike

Police: 37 victims last week alone

Shootings in the Big Apple almost quadrupled last week — with victims of the recent bloodshed accounting for nearly 12 percent of the total number of people shot so far this year, data show.

In total, 37 people were hit by gunfire in 31 separate shootings between May 11 and Sunday, compared to 10 victims of eight shootings over the same time last year, according to NYPD data released Monday.

Shooting incidents are up more than 21 percent, from 228 to 276, so far this year, with the total number of people shot rising to 315 from 255.

The uptick in gun violence has trended up over the last few weeks, but last week was among the bloodiest seven-day stretches this year.

Five of those reports of gunfire occurred in less than two hours early Saturday morning — sending six people to the hospital and 22year-old Michael Navarette to the morgue, police said.

Navarette was shot in the head outside 108-02 Guy Brewer Boulevard in Jamaica, Queens, just before 1 a.m. Saturday and died at Jamaica Hospital a day later, according to cops.

At least two more people were shot late Sunday evening in a pair of separate incidents of gunfire in Queens and The Bronx — just minutes apart.

In the first incident, the city ShotSpotter picked up on gunfire near 22-45 Dix Avenue in Far Rockaway just before 11:45 p.m., according to police.

When cops arrived they found a 20-year-old with two bullet wounds in his right leg. The man was taken to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, where he was expected to survive.

About eight hours later, officers collared 32-year-old Otis Moore in connection to the shooting. Moore faces charges of attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.

Just before midnight, a 28-yearold was shot in the chest inside an apartment on Undercliff Avenue in Morris Heights. The man, whose name was not released, was rushed to Saint Barnabas Medical Center, where he remains in critical condition.

Brooklyn saw the largest increase in shootings, with the NYPD reporting 12 incidents of gunfire and 13 victims, compared to just two shootings with two victims during the same week in 2019, per the data.

Gun violence also saw a marked increase in Queens, with six shootings and eight people hit by gunfire, according to the data. There were no shootings in Queens last year during that week.

Murders doubled over the last week as well, ticking up to nine from four last year.

The deadly news comes as NYPD officials have said target revenge slayings have increased during the pandemic.

Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said that 16-year-old Tyquan Howard was shot dead last week for his alleged role in the sidewalk beating of a 15-year-old girl for her Air Jordans in early March.