At least two people were killed and five shot across the city Friday night into Saturday as gun violence spiked with soaring temperatures.
A 46-year-old man was slain in Harlem Friday evening on Frederick Douglass Blvd. near West 155th Street, police said.
The first deadly incident took place at about 11:50 p.m. Friday in front of 2949 Frederick Douglass Blvd., near West 155th Street, police said.
Officers responding to a 911 call found the “unconscious, unresponsive” victim shot in the torso and leg, authorities said.
EMS transported the man to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, cops said.
There are no arrests.
There had not been any arrests in the Harlem shooting case. Christopher Sadowski
The Harlem shooting took place near 2949 Frederick Douglas Blvd. Christopher SadowskiA 35-year-old man was shot dead in a Queens apartment building around 1:50 p.m., police said.
Douglas Jones was found shot in the head on the 17th floor stairwell of the building at 96-10 57th Ave in Corona, NYPD confirmed. He was pronounced dead at the scene and no arrests were made.
Shortly before 3:30 a.m. Saturday, a 29-year-old man was shot in the neck and right thigh following a beef with an unknown gunman in front of 2407 Westchester Ave., near Zerega Avenue in Parkchester, police said.
EMS transported the victim to Jacobi Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, cops said.
While possibly record-breaking temperatures kept New Yorkers in the air-conditioning on Saturday, the violence continued throughout the day and into the night.
A man was shot in the Bronx around 5:30 p.m. at 2829 Sedgwick Avenue, police sources said.
Around 8 p.m., a 60-year-old Brooklyn man with a lengthy rap sheet pointed a gun at NYPD officers — who fired three shots before they were able to arrest him, according to sources. No one was injured.
At around 10:30 p.m., a man walked into St. Barnabas hospital with a gunshot wound, according to law enforcement sources.
Another man was shot in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn at Avenue W and Batchelder Street around 11 p.m., sources said.
A man wounded by gunfire 1773 Vyse Ave in the Bronx just after 11 p.m., the sources added.
At 11:23, another man was confirmed shot in the Bronx at East 188 Street and Marion Avenue.
