At least five people were hurt in four shootings across New York City overnight, police said.
The bloodshed occurred over a two-hour span in the Bronx, Queens and on Staten Island, where in the latest incident, a woman, who police sources identified as Linicia Arroyo, 31, was shot twice in the left foot near Bay and Wave streets in the Stapleton section at 4:30 a.m. Saturday, cops said.
The suspect, a thin, 5-foot-9 man, sped off in a white vehicle. Arroyo, was taken to Richmond University Medical Center in stable condition with non life-threatening injuries, police said.
Just minutes earlier in Queens, around 4:20 a.m., police were called to Ninth Street, near Vernon Boulevard in Hunters Point, where a 32-year-old man, identified by the sources as Siake Kamate, was shot in the right leg and right finger and 31-year-old Antuan Grant, was shot in the torso, the sources said. The victims, whom police described as uncooperative, went to Cornell and Mount Sinai hospitals respectively in stable condition, authorities said.
At 3:45 a.m., police were called to 2511 Third Avenue in the Mott Haven section of The Bronx, near East 138th Street, where a 25-year-old man — identified by police sources as Enrique Flores-Ramales — was shot once in the back and 25-year-old Melvin Santana was stabbed six times his left flank and once in the back, the sources said.
Both men were taken to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition, police said. According to the sources, Flores-Ramales said he escorted his girlfriend from a party inside El Taquitos Steakhouse to a cab when he was approached by an unknown male, who asked him what gang he belonged to. When Flores-Ramales said he wasn’t in a gang, the suspect shot him and fled.
The overnight gunplay began in the Bronx at 2:20 a.m. when a 20-year-old man, identified by police sources as Victor Lopez, was shot in the right knee and ankle on the 400 block of Swinton Avenue, near Sampson in Throgs Neck, cops said. The allegedly uncooperative victim was taken to Jacobi Medical Center with non life-threatening injuries, an NYPD spokesman said.
