Shootings still ring out across the Apple

NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea acknowledged Tuesday that the city is not making the strides he wants to combat shootings — on the heels of three people being killed by gunplay on Monday.

“There is progress, but we’re still running higher than we were last year. Thirty-one incidents [last week] versus far fewer last year — we have a lot of work still to go,” the top cop said on 1010 WINS radio.

“It naturally comes down this time of year,” he continued. “But we were seeing — between grand juries starting to get going, between some of the gun work and detective work and case closings that we’ve seen — still a lot of struggles but positives. Slow and steady positives, and we have some more work to do.”

Three people were killed and two more injured in four incidents across the city Monday and Tuesday, according to the NYPD.

In one of the fatal incidents, two men, 24 and 26, were found each shot in the chest outside an apartment complex at 700 Herkimer St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, at around 9:30 p.m. Monday, authorities said.

Earlier Monday, at around 2:30 p.m., Jaylen Flowers, 25, was gunned down in the rear courtyard of 270 Mother Gaston Blvd., on the grounds of Brownsville’s Howard Houses, cops said.

He was discovered lying on the pavement with two bullet wounds to the torso.

Flowers was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

The motive for the shooting was unclear.

On Monday’s date last year, there was just one shooting with one victim, cops said.