HITS KEEP COMING
45 shot over latest bloody NY weekend
Nearly four dozen people were shot in New York City over the weekend as it recorded its 12th consecutive week of surging gun violence, according to authorities.
One of the latest to fall victim to gunplay was a 34-year-old man who was shot in the chest in Brooklyn just after 10:30 p.m. Sunday and died shortly after at Brookdale Hospital.
The man, whose name was not released, was shot near the NYCHA Howard Houses at 280 Stone Ave. in Brownsville.
That bloodshed was the first of six shootings over the next few hours.
A 53-year-old man was struck in the leg just after midnight Monday in The Bronx at 2134 Vyse Ave., police said. His wounds were not considered to be life-threatening.
In East Flatbush, a man was shot in the buttocks near the corner of East 93rd Street and East New York Avenue just after 12:15 a.m., police said. He was taken to Kings County Hospital and was expected to survive.
About 15 minutes later, a 26-yearold man was hit in the left arm and a 45-year-old man’s right arm was grazed by a bullet outside 660 Gates Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said.
In Chelsea, a domestic dispute between a 35-year-old man and his 41year-old girlfriend turned violent when she shot him in the leg and wrist at around 1 a.m. Monday in the Renaissance Hotel at Sixth Avenue and West 25th Street, cops said. He was expected to survive. Roslyn Barker was taken into custody on pending charges, cops said.
About an hour later, a 46-year-old man was shot in the leg near Dorchester Road and Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, police said. He was expected to recover after being taken to Kings County Hospital.
The overnight violence closed out a bloody weekend.
Police reported 35 shootings with 45 gun victims from Friday morning through Sunday night — so that doesn’t even include the spate of predawn-Monday violence.
The surge in gunplay has continued for 12 consecutive weeks in the city — with police data showing at least 352 more shootings, 464 more victims and 69 more murders compared to the same time last year.
The last time shooting totals in the city were flat was the last week in May.
The past week also showed a jump in gun arrests, with 90 busts compared to 70 over the same period last year.
When asked about the trend Monday on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York,” Commissioner Dermot Shea echoed City Hall’s talking point of referring to the gunplay as a “perfect storm” of the pandemic and social unrest, but offered no concrete details on how the police plan to curb the bloodshed.