Eight people were shot overnight in Manhattan and Brooklyn — including a pair of teens and two men who are now fighting for their lives, police said Sunday.
The bullets flew first around 1 a.m. in Brooklyn when a gunman opened fire on a 45-year-old man and 43-year-old man, hitting both once in the chest, the NYPD said.
The shooter fired at the men for unknown reasons at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Beverley Road and then fled in a black vehicle, cops said.
The two victims were taken to Kings County Hospital in critical condition.
The gunplay happened in front of a BurgerIM restaurant, which was closed at the time. Two area residents said they were sick of the constant shootings.“This has to stop, gunning down brothers in the street like an execution,” Luke Frazier, 42, said.
“Those guys didn’t deserve this.” Laurel Chapman, 36, also bemoaned the frequent gunfire.“Brooklyn is like a merry-go-round,” she said. “We keep turning around with another shooting and then another. “
About an hour later at 2 a.m., gunfire rang out in Manhattan at West 104th Street and Amsterdam Avenue when a gunman shot two teens in the back, cops said.
The teens, ages 18 and 17, were walking when a white sedan approached them, and a stranger got out of the car and fired multiple rounds at them, police said. The gunman got back in the car and fled.
Four shootings were recorded in NYPD’s 67th Precinct in Brooklyn beginning around 2:40 a.m.
A 19-year-old was shot in the upper body at 3405 Foster Avenue in East Flatbush, cops said. He was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition.
Then, at 3:15 a.m., bullets rang out at Rockaway Avenue and Avenue M in Canarsie, leaving a 29-year-old shot in the middle finger.
Just a few minutes later, a 19-year-old was struck in the left knee at East 91st Street and Kings Highway, police said. He told cops a car pulled up and started shooting. He was taken to Kings County Hospital and was expected to survive.
Around 6:30 a.m., gunfire was reported at Ralph Avenue and Avenue A, cops said.
A 19-year-old man was shot once in the stomach by an unknown shooter who fled in a dark-colored sedan, cops said. He drove himself to Brookdale Hospital, where he was in stable condition, cops said.
Police are investigating all of the shootings.
The city has seen an increase in shooting victims citywide recently.
So far this year, 453 people have been shot as of Sunday, police statistics show. That’s 199 more victims than the 254 shot in the same period of 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic was at its height — a 78 percent increase, the data shows.
