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Mayhem in three boroughs as six people killed, four more wounded from gun violence: police
A surge of deadly violence that began Saturday night and crossed three boroughs left six people dead from gunfire and four more wounded, police said.
The gory spike meant the city more than quadrupled its weekly murder rate from 2014 — jumping from two last year to 10 this year.
The mayhem reached its peak at 1:45 a.m. Sunday when a gunman opened fire at the Raymond V. Ingersoll Houses on Prince St. in downtown Brooklyn, killing three men.
The two younger men were shot in the head and died at the scene, according to police. Their identities were not released, but cops said they were 39 and 43 years old.
Herbert Brown, 76, was shot in the abdomen and transported to Methodist Hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery. He later died on Sunday afternoon.
“I heard eight shots. Boom, boom, boom. It was really loud,” said Ingersoll resident Daniel Alcy, 21. “I got out of my bed and layed down on the floor to be safe. I was scared to look out the window.”
Another Ingersoll resident, Roque Velazque, 47, said Brown was always kind to him and his young son.
“He was quiet and nice. He was a good person,” Velazque said. “I don't know how this happened. Wrong place, wrong time.”
Police took a 21-year-old man into custody for questioning.
The triple shooting capped a 36-hour stretch of bloody violence that began Saturday afternoon when a man was shot dead in front of a Brooklyn cleaners.
Julio Yasser, 36, from Brooklyn, was standing in front of Mr. Lee Cleaners at Church Ave. around 5:45 p.m. when a dispute broke out on the sidewalk.
He took two bullets to the chest, cops said. Yasser died at Kings County Hospital.
The shooter got in a car and sped off, police said.
In the Bronx, another argument sparked a shooting that left 25-year-old Nestor Suazo dead and a 34-year-old woman critically wounded on E. Tremont and Clinton Aves in West Farms shortly before 8 p.m., police said.
Both victims were taken to St. Barnabas with gunshot wounds to their torsos, authorities said.
Suazo was declared dead on arrival. The woman was clinging to life, cops said.
Suazo’s cousin, Remanice Martinez, 24, said the woman who got shot was a friend of his who jumped in front of him to try and prevent him from getting hit by more bullets.
“He was a very humble guy in all ways. He didn’t start trouble, he didn’t go out looking for trouble ... Sometimes you just get with the wrong crowd, you’re just at the wrong place at the time,” said Martinez.
Her cousin, unmarried with no kids, worked as a deliveryman at D’Agostino’s supermarket in Manhattan, she said.
Two clerks at the nearby Clinton Express Deli said three booming gun blasts sent customers ducking for cover inside.
Just before midnight Saturday, Kevin Brye, 33, was shot in the head just steps away from the Jefferson Houses on E. 115th St. and First Ave., police said.
Emergency responders rushed him to Metropolitan Hospital but he could not be saved.
His mother, Juanita Brye, 66, said her son was visiting someone at the housing complex.
He’d called her about 20 minutes before the fatal shooting, she said.
“He said he loved me,” she said of their last chat.
“He was a very loving person. Everybody liked him,” the grieving mother said.
Brye left behind three children, including a 1-year-old baby and a 16-year old.
A spate of six knifings and stabbings around the city also sent numerous victims to emergency rooms, including one teenage boy who was slashed across the head with a bottle, cops said.
The violence caused the city’s murder rate to quadruple from the same time last year.
The city had 10 murders this week compared to two over the same 7-day span last year, according to police stats.
And the overall number of shootings held just about even.
There were 17 gunshot incidents this week with 20 victims, compared to 15 shooting incidents during the same week last year.
Outside the Ingersoll Houses Sunday, worried community members and public officials gathered in a show of concern.
“There's been several shootings here,” said community advocate Tony Herbert. “There's always the threat of violence.”
City Council Member Laurie Cumbo said in a statement that the police needed to do more.
“We need to pray, bolster the police force dedicated to patrolling NYCHA housing developments, install security cameras, and create or restore access to community centers that will deter our youth who grow up to become adults from deviant behavior,” she said. |
發表於 2015-9-20 06:02 PM
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