4 dead, including 16-year-old boy, at least 6 wounded as series of shootings rock NYC
Five people were killed, including a 16-year-old boy, and at least six others wounded in a series of shootings across New York City on Monday, according to police.
Five women were among the surviving victims, including four who are not believed to have been the intended targets, authorities said.
The carnage began around noon in the Bronx, where a 48-year-old man was blasted in the back in a bodega on White Plains Road near East 228th Street in Williamsbridge, police said.
The victim – who wasn’t immediately identified, pending family notification – was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead.
No arrests have been made.
The deadly violence continued around 2:15 p.m., when a 27-year-old man was shot in the head outside 1417 Longfellow Ave. in Longwood in the borough, cops said.
He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The 16-year-old victim was fatally shot in the head around 5:45 p.m. on Marcus Garvey Avenue near Willoughby Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, cops said.
He was taken to Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn where he was pronounced dead.
Then four hours later, around 10 p.m., a 38-year-old man was shot and killed on West 140th Street near Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem in Manhattan, according to authorities.
Another man, Kevin Roberts, 56, was shot multiple times at 976 Simpson St. in the Bronx just after 11 p.m. and rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the NYPD said.
The motives for all five fatal shootings remained under investigation.
Meanwhile, an 18-year-old man and 19-year-old woman were both shot on Staten Island around 6:55 p.m., cops said. The man suffered gunshot wounds to both arms and the chest, and the woman was shot once in the chest, police said.
The victims were not yet identified pending family notifications.
An 18-year-old man and 19-year-old woman were both shot on Staten Island around 6:55 p.m., cops said. The man suffered gunshot wounds to both arms and the chest, and the woman was shot once in the chest, police said.
Both were taken to an area hospital in stable condition.
Less than an hour later, a 24-year-old woman was shot in the buttocks in the Bronx, authorities said.
She was taken to Jacobi Medical Center and is expected to survive.
The victim was not the intended target, law enforcement sources said.
The suspect fled on an electric scooter.
Three more women – believed to be innocent bystanders – were shot and wounded in Riverbank State Park around 9 p.m. in upper Manhattan, police said.
A 33-year-old woman shot in the ankle and a 20-year-old woman shot in the leg were taken to Mt. Sinai Morningside Hospital in stable condition, and a 28-year-old woman shot in the ankle reached Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx by private means, police said.
A crowd of people were inside the park at the time, and “unknown people” let rounds off, cops said.
No arrests have been made in connection to any of the shootings.
