Three people were killed and another three were wounded in five separate shootings across New York City as the weekend came to a close, according to police.
The disturbing rash of gun violence left a bloody trail across three boroughs and began shortly after 5 p.m. Sunday and ended at around 1 a.m. Monday. Two teenagers were also among the multiple gunshot victims, with an 18-year-old man dying from his wounds.
The fatal victim, identified as Anwah Armbrister, and a 15-year-old girl were inside a building at 460 East 21st Street in Flatbush, Brooklyn when they were shot around 5:10 p.m., cops said. The pair stumbled outside and were found by first responders near the intersection of East 21st Street and Dorchester Road, police said.
The girl’s left shin was grazed by a bullet, but Armbrister suffered gunshot wounds to the head and chest, police said.
The Brooklyn resident was rushed to the Kings County Hospital and did not survive. The girl was treated at the same hospital and released.
The scene of the shooting in Washington Heights, Manhattan on W 191st St and St Nicholas Ave. CITIZENAround the same time in the Bronx, a 35-year-old man was fatally shot in the torso after he was chased into a bodega on East 175th Street near Eastburn Avenue in Mount Hope, police and law enforcement sources said. The victim was tracked down by two men on a scooter before one of the suspects fired inside the business, sources said.
The victim, identified as Bronx resident Cleveland Smith, was taken to Saint Barnabas Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Hours later, a 33-year-old man – later identified as Christopher Brooks, of Sugar Hill, Manhattan – was fatally blasted in the chest around 11:45 p.m. at West 185th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Washington Heights, police said. He was brought to Harlem Hospital, but couldn’t be saved.
A 26-year-old man was shot in the right leg near 191st Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, also in Washington Heights, police said. CITIZENHe has not been named by authorities pending family notification.
The first non-fatal shooting erupted around 6:45 p.m. Sunday when a 26-year-old man was blasted in the right leg near 191st Street and St. Nicholas Avenue, also in Washington Heights, police said.
He was taken to New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center by private means and was listed in stable condition.
Just before 1 a.m. Monday, another man, 35, was wounded in a shooting at Webster Avenue and East 178th Street in the West Bronx, cops said.
The victim, who was shot in the stomach, was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
No arrests were made in any of the five shootings as the NYPD continues to investigate.
