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Two killed in separate assaults in the Bronx, Brooklyn

Two men were killed in separate incidents Saturday afternoon, one in Brooklyn and the other in the Bronx.

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Two killed in separate assaults in the Bronx, Brooklyn​

By
Melissa Klein,

Matthew Sedacca and

Larry Celona


September 24, 2022 6:43pm
Updated

Two men were killed in separate incidents in the Bronx and Brooklyn, including a stabbing death outside a Canarsie deli. Google Maps

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Two men were killed in separate incidents Saturday afternoon, one in Brooklyn and the other in the Bronx.
A 22-year-old man was stabbed to death in a fight outside a Canarsie deli.
Police said they were called to East 87th Street and Avenue L at 2:38 p.m. for an assault and found the victim with multiple stab wounds.
He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said.
His identity was not immediately released pending notification of his family.
Kim Sadler, 39, who lives in the neighborhood said she saw two men fighting outside Canarsie One Stop Market.
“They was arguing back and forth, then the guy throw the [liquor] bottle and the other guy began to stab him,” she said. “He was swift like he was a professional stabber.”
Sadler, who said she recently moved to the area, complained about the amount of people and activity outside the deli.
“I’m gonna stay away from that store. It’s starting to look like a party,” she said.
Bishop Rafael Lantigua Jr., pastor for Real Life Church three storefronts down from the market, said that Saturday’s attack was surprising so close to his house of worship.
“I’ve never seen police tape up, not on this block,” he said.
In the Bronx, police said they responded to a report of an assault at 12:45 p.m. at the John Adams Houses at 745 East 152 St. in the Woodstock section.
They found a 37-year-old man who was unresponsive with trauma to his head and body. EMS pronounced the victim dead at the scene. His identity was not released pending family notification.

 

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One killed and 5 others hurt in shootings across NYC

A 14-year-old boy was shot in Manhattan and two men were shot in Brooklyn late Saturday evening, according to police.

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One killed and 5 others hurt in shootings across NYC​

By
Larry Celona,

Patrick Reilly and

Steven Vago


September 24, 2022 11:57pm
Updated

One of the victims is transported in an ambulance following a shooting in Brooklyn on Sept. 24, 2022. Paul Martinka

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One person was killed and five others were wounded, including two teenagers, in a wild night of gun violence in the Big Apple Saturday.
The carnage began in the afternoon when a male gunshot victim walked into Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, according to law enforcement sources.
Later Saturday night, a 14-year-old boy was shot in the back outside of the James Weldon Johnson Houses houses on Lexington Ave. in East Harlem around 8:10 p.m., police said.
He was transported to Harlem Hospital and was listed in stable condition, cops said.
Police are investigating whether the teen was targeted or struck by a stray bullet, according to police sources.
No suspects have been identified in the shooting.
Omar Kassim, 50, an employee at Stop One Lexington Deli across from the crime scene said he saw people sprinting after shots were fired.
“It’s bad. The neighborhood is bad,” he told The Post. “We need safety and security in this area.”
About half hour earlier, two 46-year-old men were shot in front of 303 Van Buren St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police said.


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The teen was shot in East Harlem about 30 minutes after the two men in Brooklyn. Christopher Sadowski

A gun was found at the scene in Brooklyn where the two men were shot. Paul Martinka

Police are still searching for any suspects and don't know if the shootings are connected. Christopher Sadowski



One victim was shot in the lower abdomen and the other was shot in the leg, according to police. Both were taken to Kings County Hospital and were in stable condition.


A firearm was recovered at the scene but no suspects have been identified, cops said.


Later Saturday night, another teenager — a 17-year-old boy, was shot in the head at 2407 Morris Ave. in Fordham Heights around 11:15 p.m., according to police.


He was transported to an area hospital and is not expected to survive, cops said.


A man was shot in Brooklyn around 11:30 p.m. at 586 Hinsdale St. in East New York, police and sources said. Additional details on the shooting were not immediately available.


Just before midnight, a 45-year-old man was shot and killed in the Bronx, according to police.


The man was shot in the head at 673 Hunts Point Ave. in Hunts Point. He was transported to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, cops said.


No arrests have been made.

 

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At least 16 hurt in 9 shootings during bloody day in NYC: cops

At least 16 people were hurt in nine shootings that erupted in a bloody span between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning across the Big Apple, cops said.

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At least 16 hurt in 9 shootings during bloody day in NYC: cops​

By
Larry Celona,

Joe Marino,

Tina Moore and

Amanda Woods


September 28, 2022 12:21pm
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NYPD at the scene of a shooting and robbery at 2171 Bruckner Blvd in the Bronx on Sept. 28







At least 16 people were hurt in nine shootings that erupted in a bloody span between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning across the Big Apple, police said.
Gunfire broke out in every borough during the 16-hour period — with all of the Wednesday incidents happening in the Bronx, authorities said. The gunplay included two separate shootings in which four people, including innocent bystanders, where shot and wounded.
The most recent shooting erupted around 7:30 a.m. Wednesday on Tiebout Avenue near East 182nd Street in Fordham Heights, cops said.
A 42-year-old man was standing outside when he was slashed in the face and shot in the back by two gunmen who took off on a dark-colored scooter, authorities said.
The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The motive for the attack was unclear.

00:00 A man was shot during an attempted home invasion robbery inside his apartment on Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx.Robert Mecea
Around 6:45 a.m., a man walked into Lincoln Medical Center with a gunshot wound, cops said.


It’s unclear where and when he was shot.


Also in the Bronx, a 31-year-old man was shot during an attempted home invasion robbery inside an apartment on Bruckner Boulevard near Castle Hill Avenue in Unionport just after 6 a.m., according to cops and police sources.


A stranger entered his apartment, displayed a gun and demanded his property, the sources said.


When he refused, he was blasted in the stomach, authorities and sources said.


He was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where he is expected to survive.

The overnight violence included a shooting on West 116th Street near Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem that wounded four men. Robert Mecea
Hours earlier, around 2:20 a.m., a man was standing on East 233rd Street near Edenwald Avenue in Wakefield when he was shot in the leg, cops said.


He walked into Montefiore Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, and reported hearing shots and feeling pain, police said.


The circumstances are under investigation.


Four men were hurt when gunshots rang out on West 116th Street near Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem around 11:40 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.


A 28-year-old man took a bullet to the arm, and a 24-year-old man shot in both the right and left legs, were taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition, police said.

Four innocent bystanders — including two teens –were shot inside the London Planetree Playground in Queens.Wayne Carrington
A 27-year-old man was shot in the right leg and taken to Mount Sinai Morningside in serious condition, and a 21-year-old man blasted in the right arm went to the same hospital in stable condition, authorities said.


An earlier dice game may have sparked the gunplay, police sources said.

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Gunfire also erupted at Pitkin Avenue and Grafton Street in Brownsville, Brooklyn, where a 38-year-old man was struck in the right arm around 7:15 p.m., cops said.


He suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, authorities said.


Police described him as highly uncooperative with investigators.


In Queens, four innocent bystanders – including two teens – were shot inside the London Planetree Playground around 6:20 p.m., cops said.


A 15-year-old girl was shot in the leg and a 16-year-old boy in the back, cops said.


Both were taken to Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where they were expected to survive.


Two men, 20 and 32, were shot in the leg and taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, also in stable condition.

A 33-year-old man was shot inside an apartment on Daniel Low Terrace in Staten Island.Steve White
Witnesses told cops that two gunmen wearing all black got out of a Mercedes SUV and fired into the park – in the direction of one of the male victims, though everyone is considered an innocent bystander, sources said.


In Staten Island, a 33-year-old man was shot in the stomach inside an apartment on Daniel Low Terrace in the Fort George neighborhood around 6:15 p.m., cops said.


He was taken to Richmond University Medical Center, where he is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries and is considered uncooperative, police said.


Earlier in the afternoon, an innocent female bystander, 48, was among two people shot when an argument turned violent in Harlem, cops and sources said.

A 48-year-old woman was struck by a stray bullet on West 125th Street near Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. Tuesday afternoon.Robert Miller
Enta Diaw, a street vendor, took a bullet to her left leg around 3:30 p.m. on West 125th Street near Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd., cops and relatives said.


She was rushed to Harlem Hospital and is expected to survive, police said.




The other victim, 20, was shot in the right leg after he and the gunman go

 

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Shootings surge in last week after outbreak of violence in NYC

The unrelenting gunplay has left victims’ families feeling that numbers alone don’t tell the story of how bad the violence has gotten.

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Shootings surge in last week after outbreak of violence in NYC despite claims by Eric Adams, NYPD’s Keechant Sewell​

By
Tina Moore,

Larry Celona,

Steven Vago,

Georgett Roberts,

Joe Marino,

Craig McCarthy and

Bruce Golding


September 29, 2022 7:31pm
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New Yorkers sound off about gun violence in the city



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Mayor Adams and his police commissioner have both been crowing about how shootings are down this year — but an alarming surge in gunfire now has the Big Apple looking “like the Wild, Wild West.”
Amid an overall decrease in the number of shootings so far this year in New York, shooting incidents and victims spiked by double-digit percentages last week during an ongoing outbreak of disturbing and bloody violence.
On Tuesday, 16 people were struck by bullets — including two separate incidents in which four people were shot — and on Wednesday there were an additional seven people shot, including a 17-year-old girl who was fatally shot in the face in Brooklyn.
On Thursday, a broad-daylight gun battle erupted in Harlem around 11:35 a.m., with two men shot — and one believed to be an innocent bystander, law-enforcement sources said.
“It’s like the Wild, Wild West,” a disgusted cop said.

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The unrelenting gunplay has left victims’ families feeling that numbers alone don’t tell the story of how bad the violence has gotten — and they are furious at the mayor and NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell.

Police at the scene where a person was shot on Bruckner Boulevard near East 141st Street in the Bronx on Sept. 25. Christopher Sadowski
“They just want to cover the fact that they can’t control the city anymore,” said Yanely Henriquez, whose 16-year-old daughter, Angellyh Yambo, was killed in the crossfire of a gunfight near her South Bronx high school in April.


The grieving mom demanded action from Adams.

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“He needs to do something — really do something — about these guns on the street,” said Henriquez, 42.


Roger Frowner — whose brother, Los Angeles rapper Avanti Frowner, was fatally shot over his gold chain in a Bronx pharmacy in June — also said, “I definitely don’t think the right things are being done.”


“The mayor — all he is doing is just, once again, trying to put himself in a better position,” Frowner added.


Griselda Vile — whose brother, Daniel Enriquez, was killed in a random subway shooting in May — also fumed that “we have a mayor who spends more time smiling for the cameras than spending time in the office taking action.”


“Last June, I witnessed first-hand a man taking out a gun and shooting a group of individuals right outside my car,” she said in an email.


“The following month, across from my own residence, there was a drive-by shooting that –although gang-related — hit too close for me and my children.”


The Woodhaven, Queens, resident added: “So, you can imagine my horror when — once again within the vicinity of my own home and while I was en route to the grocery store with my oldest [child] — there was yet another violent crime in my area.”

Mayor Adams and NYC Police Commissioner Sewell attend a news conference with New York Attorney General Letitia James and others to announce a new lawsuit against “ghost gun” distributors.Spencer Platt/Getty Images
“This time, four victims were shot in the early evening hours in Ozone Park,” she said.


According to the NYPD’s most recent statistics, citywide shootings this year were down 12.6% and the number of victims decreased by 11.7% as of Sunday, compared to the same period in 2021.


But last week, the numbers of incidents and victims spiked upward by 16.7% and 13.9%, respectively.


Near the scene of Thursday’s late-morning bloodshed at East 126th Street and Lexington Avenue, a bodega worker who gave his name as Kareem said he’s shocked by the number of shootings.


“It’s every day, every week with this s–t,” he said.


Neighborhood resident and city parks worker Bruce Barksdale, 58, said of Adams and gun violence: “Maybe he’s looking at statistics that say it’s down but he don’t live in Harlem.”


Patricia, a 69-year-old woman who was in Harlem to visit her daughter, also said, “It’s very scary.”

Bruce Barksdale spoke to The Post about shootings in his community. Robert Miller
A veteran law enforcement official criticized Adams and Sewell for taking a victory lap earlier this month, when Sewell told ABC’s “GMA3”: “Our shootings are down, our number of victims are down, our homicides are down so far this year. And we continue to make more strides.”

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Adams also boasted, “We’re doing our job of taking dangerous people off the streets and taking guns off the street,” before blaming judges, prosecutors and lawmakers for “not playing ball correctly” and “impacting some of our results.”


“It’s not about what we have done, but about what we’re doing,” the source said.


A veteran Brooklyn cop said, “We are seeing a lot more daytime shootings.”


“Before, shooters waited for the cover of darkness. Now, they have no fear of getting arrested so they carry their guns all the time.”


Another veteran cop said, “We take confirmed shots-fired jobs all day, every day.”


John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor Maria Haberfeld, a former lieutenant in the Israeli National Police, said, “You have to look at this at what is the quality of life in the city regardless of the numbers and in my opinion, the quality of life, in my mind, is not good.”


“I don’t feel safer. I don’t feel safe in the city and I don’t think anyone does,” she said.

New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell speaks at a press conference to announce new concealed carry gun laws in August. Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/Shutterstock
“I don’t see enough police presence on the streets. The presence of patrol officers on the streets needs to increase.”

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John Jay professor Joseph Giacalone, a former NYPD sergeant, said he was baffled by the increased gunplay “because we already went through the hottest part of the year.”


“Now the cool temperatures are here and it seems like everybody’s lost their minds,” he said.


“This is why I always say, I always tell the politicians: Don’t declare victory on crime in August or September because you have three months left.”


Another John Jay prof, former NYPD cop and Brooklyn prosecutor Eugene O’Donnell, called it “distressing” that spikes in shootings were “no longer confined to summer.”


“As we enter the fall, 16 people were shot in a day. You know, there are countries that don’t have 16 people shot in a year,” he said.


O’Donnell also said there seemed to be “a casualness to these shootings…they’re not even like purposeful shootings.”

Shooting incidents and victims spiked by double-digit percentages last week.NYPD
“Guns are clearly everywhere. Offenders are clearly emboldened,” he said.


In June, Adams appointed ex-con Andre “A.T.” Mitchell, founder of the scandal-scarred Man Up! anti-violence group, as his “gun violence czar,” with a mission to “increase community safety and address the upstream causes of gun violence.”


In a prepared statement, City Hall said, “Mayor Adams has been clear that public safety is his top propriety and we must dam all the rivers that feed the sea of gun violence.”


“The administration is already making progress in driving down gun violence, leading to double-digit decreases in shootings and homicides year to date,” the statement said.

“We have more work to do to dam every river, and the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force — co-chaired by A.T. Mitchell — regularly meets to discuss how to promote community-based solutions to complement the efforts of law enforcement to keep New Yorkers safe.”


In a prepared statement, an NYPD spokesperson said, “Removing firearms from NYPD streets continues to be a priority and year-to-date, NYPD officers have seized more than 4,880 guns.”

Adams had touted lowering gun violence numbers. Robert Miller
“The department’s work to address gun violence is reflected in the citywide gun arrests police officers are effecting, a number that rose in August by 16% (405 v. 349) compared to the same period in 2021,” the spokesperson added.





“That monthly productivity means that citywide gun arrests through August are at a 27-year high, rising to 3,170 – which is a 4.4% increase compared with the 3,036 gun arrests through the first eight months of last year.”

 

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Three subway attacks reported in about 7 hours in NYC: cops

Three subway attacks – one fatal and at least two unprovoked – were reported across the Big Apple over about 7 hours Thursday, cops said.

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Three subway attacks reported in about 7 hours in NYC: cops​

By
Amanda Woods and

Gabrielle Fonrouge


October 7, 2022 12:04pm
Updated

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Three subway stabbings — including a fatal random attack and an assault that stemmed from a tap on the shoulder — occurred over roughly seven hours Thursday, cops said.
In the deadly incident, the 38-year-old victim had just gotten off a northbound No. 4 train at 176th Street and Jerome Avenue in the Bronx around 8:30 p.m. when a brute stabbed him out of nowhere on the platform, authorities said.
The victim — whose name is being withheld by The Post pending family notification — was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries around 6 a.m. Friday.
Video surveillance released Friday shows the victim and the suspect — wearing all black — scuffling on the northbound platform while the train was still in the station.
The victim was knifed multiple times in the back and chest, cops said.
Cops investigate the scene where a 38-year-old man was randomly stabbed at the 176th Street and Jerome Avenue subway station and later succumbed to his injuries.Christopher Sadowski
The suspect fled, and no arrests had been made by Friday morning.
“Definitely a terrible incident,” NYPD Transit Chief Jason Wilcox said during a crime stats press conference Friday. “Obviously very, very intense investigations are going on right now.”
When asked about the incident, Mayor Eric Adams called it a “bizarre scenario.”


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Police said the victim was knifed multiple times in the back and chest.

The suspect appeared to be wearing all black, according to police.

The suspect fled from the station, and no arrests had been made. Christopher Sadowski

NYPD inspect the subway station where a victim was fatally stabbed. Christopher Sadowski



“Nothing is worse than a random attack. It just really undermines your feeling of safety. We’re digging into exactly what happened,” Adams said during an unrelated press conference.


He added that untreated mental health conditions are driving a lot of violence on the rails.


“We can’t have this revolving hospital system where you go in and you [are] put right back out until you do something,” Hizzoner said.






A little over three hours before the fatal stabbing, a 45-year-old man was slashed inside the A train station at Pitkin and Grant avenues in East New York, Brooklyn, authorities said.


Footage released Friday morning shows the red-hoodie-wearing suspect getting off a black and yellow scooter and starting to run. Cops say he followed his target into the station.


As the victim attempted to pass through a turnstile, the suspect slashed him on the right side of the face with an unknown object before bolting, authorities said.

The Brooklyn slashing suspect arrived and departed on a scooter, cops said.NYPD
The victim was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he received stitches and was released.


The suspect took off on his scooter, and no arrests have been made.


The victim claimed to police that he did not know his attacker but told authorities he was wearing blue and that his assailant may have believed he was a gang member.

A 59-year-old man was stabbed in an unprovoked attack at the 125th Street A, B, C and D station in Harlem, cops said.Peter Gerber
The victim has a “tremendous amount of arrests” himself and is “extremely well-known to the department,” police sources said.


Earlier in the afternoon, a man was randomly stabbed inside the 125th Street A, B, C and D station in Harlem, authorities said.


The 59-year-old victim had missed his stop and was walking up the stairs to get to the southbound platform when he encountered someone who was blocking his path and tapped him on the shoulder, Wilcox said.




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A victim was stabbed in the subway at West 125 Street and St. Nicholas ave in Manhattan. Peter Gerber

The victim was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside with non-life-threatening injuries. Peter Gerber



“That leads to a dispute, and that leads to a physical altercation where the victim is then stabbed, has a puncture wound to his shoulder area,” Wilcox said.


The victim was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.





About an hour later, a 29-year-old man and his 40-year-old wife were standing on the same platform when a man approached them and displayed a knife, cops said.


The couple was not hurt, and the knife-wielding man got away after threatening them but the husband flagged down officers in the station, police said.

A 29-year-old man and his wife were standing on the West 125th Street subway platform when a man approached them with a knife, police said. Peter Gerber
John Bethelmie, 58, of the Bronx, was arrested and charged with menacing.


So far, police have only charged him with threatening the couple, but said they are investigating whether he was also connected to the earlier stabbing.


He has no prior arrests, cops said.

 

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1 dead, 3 injured in spate of overnight NYC stabbings and shootings

Police responding to an assault in Crown Heights around 1:43 a.m. found a stabbed man lying on the sidewalk on Franklin Avenue near Lincoln Place.

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1 dead, 3 injured in spate of overnight NYC stabbings and shootings​

By
Dana Kennedy


October 8, 2022 12:45pm
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A Brooklyn man was killed in Crown Heights and three other people were hurt in two separate shootings in Harlem and Brooklyn early Saturday, cops said.
Police responding to an assault in Crown Heights around 1:43 a.m. found Kerwin Cox, 35, lying on the sidewalk on Franklin Avenue near Lincoln Place. He had been stabbed in the chest.
Cox, who lived in the Gowanus Houses in South Brooklyn, was pronounced dead after being rushed to Interfaith Hospital. The investigation is ongoing.
About 45 minutes earlier, at about 1 a.m., a 26-year-old man was shot around at 760 Eldert Lane in Brooklyn after a fight with another male, police said. The victim was taken to the hospital where he is expected to survive.
In Harlem, a 48-year-old man was shot in the left leg and a 50-year-old woman was shot in the right leg at 1:24 a.m., cops said.
A 35-year-old was fatally stabbed in the chest in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.Seth Gottfried The NYPD’s crime scene unit investigates a fatal stabbing in front of 776 Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.Seth Gottfried The Stabbing victim lived in the Gowanus Houses in South Brooklyn.Seth Gottfried
The incident unfolded in front of 2569 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., where an unidentified man opened fire at the two, cops said. The suspect, described as 6 feet 2 and wearing a beige sweater , fled. The victims were taken to nearby hospitals.

 

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Three people stabbed to death in NYC transit system in 10 days

The latest fatality came just three days after Citi Field employee Charles Moore, 38, was fatally stabbed at the East 176th Street station on his commute home from work Thursday evening.

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Three people stabbed to death in NYC transit system in 10 days​

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Tina Moore,

Haley Brown and

Gabrielle Fonrouge


October 10, 2022 1:02pm
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New Yorkers reflect on crime and safety in the city



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Three people have been killed in New York City’s transit system in the past 10 days, amid a string of other violent incidents.
On Sunday around 8:30 p.m., Lamont Barkley, 55, was on a BX19 bus when he was fatally stabbed numerous times, police said.
Before his slaying, the father of four had gotten into an argument with a woman at a nearby bar, Glen Roy’s Public House, prompting her to call a man to come to the area, police sources and neighbors said.
At some point, the trio got on the bus, where the man and woman attacked Barkley, sources said.
The victim was taken to Lincoln Hospital but could not be saved.
On Monday, Ebony Jackson, 42, was taken into custody in connection with the incident and charged with murder and manslaughter, cops said. The male suspect is yet to be apprehended.
Police investigate the scene of a fatal stabbing on the BX19 bus. William C. Lopez/NYPOST
“He was a nice guy, quiet,” Barkley’s neighbor, who only gave her name as Carmen, told The Post of the slain dad.
“He’s not a troublemaker that’s one thing I could tell you. He take care of his kids and everything.”
Charles Moore was stabbed to death Thursday night while commuting home from work.Kyle Schnitzer Harrowing surveillance footage shows the moment Charles Moore was stabbed.
Barkley’s brother said he’s taking care of his sibling’s four children for the time being but declined further comment.
The slaying came just three days after Citi Field employee Charles Moore, 38, was fatally stabbed at the East 176th Street station in The Bronx on his commute home from work.
Saquan Lemons, 27, allegedly randomly killed the dad on the crowded platform shortly after “tumbling out” of a No. 4 train around 10:30 p.m. Thursday, prosecutors said during his arraignment on murder charges.
Police investigate after Tommy Bailey was killed on an L train near Atlantic Avenue.Wayne Carrington
“They failed us,” Moore’s heartbroken mom Frances Vanterpoole Moore, 73, railed to The Post after the tragedy, referencing public officials including Mayor Eric Adams.
“It’s your fault my child is dead,” she said.
On Sept. 30, father of two Tommy Bailey, 43, also was fatally stabbed in the neck onboard an L train around 9 p.m. after allegedly getting into an argument with Alvin Charles, 43.
Bailey, who was known as a “Canarsie legend” for his athletic prowess, had been commuting home from work when he was stabbed, loved ones said.
The deaths come amid a string of other violent incidents on the rails, including three stabbings that happened in fewer than eight hours Thursday.
Before Moore’s fatal stabbing, a 45-year-old man was slashed inside the A train station at Pitkin and Grant avenues in East New York, Brooklyn, and a 59-year-old man was randomly stabbed inside the 125th Street station in Harlem.

 

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A dozen bloody attacks on NYC transit system in two weeks

Over the last two weeks, more than a dozen people have been violently attacked on the New York City transit system, including three fatally, in a string of bloody, frightening incidents.

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A dozen bloody attacks on NYC transit system in two weeks​

By
Gabrielle Fonrouge


October 10, 2022 9:29pm
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New Yorkers reflect on crime and safety in the city

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Three murders. Five stabbings. Countless other attacks.
Over the past two weeks, more than a dozen people have been violently attacked on the New York City transit system, including three fatally, in a string of bloody, frightening incidents.
As more New Yorkers get back on the subways and buses in the waning days of the COVID-19 pandemic, major felony transit crime has shot up nearly 42% so far this year compared to 2021, NYPD data show.
While transit crime so far this year is 5% lower than for the same period in 2019, before ridership was decimated by the pandemic, violence has remained a consistent concern for commuters, many of whom have no other way to get around.
Here is a rundown of some of the most violent incidents to happen on the transit system in the past two weeks:

1. Sept. 30: Dad of two fatally stabbed on the L train ​

Tommy Bailey, a hard-working father of two known as a “Canarsie legend” for his athletic prowess, is stabbed to death on his commute home from work.
The steamfitter had allegedly gotten into an argument with Alvin Charles, 43, during the ride, prompting the homeless man to fatally stab him in the neck near the Atlantic Avenue station.
In the last two weeks there have been over a dozen people violently attacked on the New York City transit system.
Loved ones of Bailey, also 43, claimed his death could’ve been prevented had Charles not been freed on bail for a similar subway stabbing that happened in July 2021.
“If they [had] done something about it back then, Tommy would have still been alive and we wouldn’t be talking right now,” said Jaylin, Bailey’s 18-year-old neighbor in Canarsie.
“His death is on their hands. No common sense. That’s sad.”
NYPD at the Atlantic Avenue subway station in Brooklyn after Tommy Bailey was fatally stabbed on a train on September 30, 2022.Wayne Carrington

2. Oct. 1: MTA bus driver slashed on the job ​

A 52-year-old MTA bus driver is slashed by an irate customer on a Saturday morning in Harlem.
The suspect got angry with the driver when he didn’t open the rear doors of the bus, prompting him to march up to the worker, spit on him and slash him twice on his left forearm as he threatened to “go get my gun.
“I live in these projects,” the suspect told the wounded driver before fleeing.

3. Oct. 2: The ‘Green Goblin’ attack ​

A group of women decked out in bizarre, neon green bodysuits brutally attacked and robbed two 19-year-olds at the Times Square subway station around 2 a.m. after one of the victims apparently bumped into them.
“She said she was attacked by aliens,” the mother of one of the victims told The Post the day after the assault.
A group of women in green bodysuits attacked and robbed two 19-year-olds on a train at the Times Square subway station on October 2, 2022.Reddit / RoBoyJones
“Yesterday was her birthday. This is how she spent her 19th birthday. I hope they get what they deserve and then some because it’s disgusting.”
The suspects made off with a cell phone and purse and remain at large.

4. Oct. 3: Man randomly shoved onto subway tracks at Union Square​

A 25-year-old straphanger headed home from work and waiting for a No. 6 train was suddenly pushed onto the trackbed around 9:30 p.m., allegedly by an emotionally disturbed homeless man.
Hours after Clarence Anderson allegedly shoved the man, who was saved by good Samaritans, he attacked another innocent New Yorker – a construction worker toiling near Columbus Circle.
“He shouldn’t have been on the streets,” the subway-shove victim, who needed 18 stitches to close the gash on his head, told The Post.
“I won’t be taking the subway after 7 p.m. again. … Something needs to be changed or fixed.”

5. Oct. 4: Man slashed at Times Square subway station​

A 31-year-old man was slashed in the leg at the tourist hotspot after getting into a fight with another guy just after 11 p.m.
Dramatic video posted to Twitter shows officers treating the injured and bleeding man on the subway platform, with a trail of blood behind him.
Blood on the floor at Times Square station after a man was stabbed on October 4, 2022.Gregory P. Mango
It’s not clear what sparked the fued.

6. Oct. 6: Man randomly stabbed after ‘shoulder tap’​

A 59-year-old man was stabbed in the shoulder around 1 p.m. inside the 125th Street A, B, C and D station in Harlem.
The victim had missed his stop and was walking up the stairs to get to the southbound platform when he encountered someone who was blocking his path and tapped him on the shoulder, police said.
The pair then started arguing before the suspect took out a knife and stabbed him.

7. Oct. 6: Man slashed, possibly for wearing the wrong color​

A 45-year-old man was slashed in the face while passing through the turnstile at the A train station at Pitkin and Grant avenues in East New York, Brooklyn, around 5 p.m.
The victim claimed to police that he did not know his attacker but said he was wearing blue and that his assailant may have believed he was a gang member.
The suspect took off on a scooter.

8. Oct. 6: Beloved father fatally stabbed while commuting home ​

Charles Moore, 38, was headed home from his job at Citi Field around 10:30 p.m. when he was knifed to death at the 176th Street and Jerome Avenue station.
Saquan Lemons, 27, allegedly randomly killed the dad on the crowded platform shortly after “tumbling out” of a No. 4 train, prosecutors said during his arraignment on murder charges.
Saquan Lemons allegedly stabbed Charles Moore to death at the 176th Street and Jerome Avenue station in the Bronx on October 6, 2022.Tomas E. Gaston Surveillance footage of Charles Moore getting attacked.NYPD
Lemons’ attorney requested he undergo a psychiatric evaluation.

9. Oct. 8: Teen hunted, beaten and stabbed on the Upper East Side ​

A 17-year-old victim commuting home from his job at Shake Shack was violently attacked Saturday afternoon at the East 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue station, leaving him with six stab wounds.
The attackers, who were clad in all black and wore face masks, had gone to the teen’s job asking where he was and then followed him into the subway system.
One of the alleged attackers who beat and stabbed a teenager at the East 53rd Street and Lexington Avenue station on October 8, 2022.DCPI

10. Oct. 9: Dad of four fatally stabbed on the bus ​

Lamont Barkley, 55, was on a BX19 bus around 8:30 p.m. Sunday when he was killed by a woman and man he’d been arguing with, police said.
Before to the fatal stabbing, Barkley had gotten into an argument with the woman at a nearby bar, Glen Roy’s Public House, prompting her to call the man to come to the area, police sources and neighbors said.
Police at the scene of where Bronx father Lamont Barkley, 55, was fatally stabbed on a bus in the Bronx on October 9, 2022.William C. Lopez/NYPOST
At some point, the trio got on the bus, where the man and woman attacked Barkley, sources said.
Ebony Jackson, 42, was taken into custody in connection with the incident and charged with murder and manslaughter Monday.

11. Oct. 10: Woman bashed in head in random attack ​

A 49-year-old woman was waiting for the No. 2 train at the Cathedral Parkway subway station in Harlem around 2:30 a.m. Monday when she was suddenly whacked in the head with an unknown object.
No words were exchanged before her attacker, a stranger, took off, cops said.

 

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Killings in NYC subway system skyrocket to highest level in 25 years — even as ridership plummeted

Killings in the New York City subway system since 2020 have skyrocketed to the highest levels seen in 25 years, even amid plummeting ridership numbers, as the city grapples with an overall spike in…

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Killings in the New York City subway system since 2020 have skyrocketed to the highest annual levels in 25 years, even amid plummeting ridership numbers, as the city grapples with an overall spike in random violence, NYPD data show.
Since 1997, the earliest data The Post was able to access, there had never been more than five subway murders in a single year until the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020 and brought that number up to six for the first time in decades.
The next year, murders shot up to eight. So far in 2022, there have already been seven killings.
Together with 2020’s toll, that’s 21 slayings — which is more murders than the transit system saw between 2008 and 2019 combined.

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“It used to be ‘I know if I don’t go to this neighborhood, I will be safe,’ but today you don’t have that,” said Professor Maria Haberfeld from CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal, a former lieutenant in the Israel National Police.

The number of murders on the subways has skyrocketed since 2020. Composite
“You can take the subway anywhere at any time of day, in broad daylight, and there is no guarantee of safety,” she told The Post.


The transit killings come after public officials have repeatedly promised to flood subway platforms and cars with police officers under Mayor Eric Adams’ subway safety plan, which has sought to reduce violence by cracking down on quality-of-life offenses and homelessness.


Despite the efforts, overall felony crime on the subways is up a whopping 42% compared so far this year compared to the same period in 2021 — and this year’s death toll is on pace to eclipse the eight murders clocked last year.

Police investigate a fatal stabbing on the subway. Christopher Sadowski
Most recently, two Big Apple dads – Tommy Bailey, 43, and Charles Moore, 38 – were separately knifed to death on their commutes home from work in random attacks that have left experts scratching their heads.


“It makes no sense,” said Chris Herrmann, an assistant professor at John Jay, who once served as a crime statistics expert at the NYPD.


“The victim wasn’t threatening, the victim was leaving, it doesn’t make sense when it comes to the victim-offender relationship,” Herrmann said, referencing Moore’s Oct. 6 murder at the 176th Street station in The Bronx, which happened right after the Citi Field worker had exited the train.


“It’s definitely a much more violent subway system, and it’s ironic when you look at the ridership numbers, it’s still down, so those numbers stand out even more.”

Seven people have been murdered on the subway system so far in 2022.Christopher Sadowski
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2019, when an average 142 million people rode the trains each month, three murders happened in the subway system. These days, an average of just 81 million people are taking the train monthly, a small uptick from 2020 and 2021, which saw an average of 53.3 million and 63.3 million riders per month, respectively.


Dr. Dorothy Schulz, a professor emerita of law and police studies from John Jay College, said the low ridership numbers could be why so much violence is happening underground.


“Less subway activity by commuters or tourists has contributed to the fact that the percentage of people who are on the subway or streets with mental-health issues is higher,” Schulz told The Post.


“The subways are safer when there are more legitimate riders, commuters, tourists, whatever. That’s a place where the quaint expression ‘there is safety in numbers’ comes in,” Schulz said. “It keeps the others in check [on] the subway particularly, because if you are alone, there is a sense of vulnerability, and if there is someone looking to attack, they sense that.”

There were more murders on the subway over the last three years than 2008-2019 combined. Michael Dalton
The MTA pointed out that homicides per million riders dropped 18% between 2021 and 2022 but acknowledged “violence is never acceptable.


“There’s no way to console those who have lost loved ones, and with murders dropping this year citywide by 14%, we are confident the NYPD will bring the same success to the transit system,” MTA rep Sean Butler said.


While overall crime on the rails is down 5% so far this year compared to the same time period in 2019, when ridership numbers were stable, straphangers are still 53% more likely to be the victim of a felony crime this year when factoring in the low ridership numbers.


During a crime-stats press briefing Friday, the morning after Moore was killed, NYPD Transit Chief Jason Wilcox intimated that violence in the subways is more “perception” than “reality.”

The number of murders on the subway system have been going up since 2020.Christopher Sadowski
“The mayor, the NYPD and the MTA implemented a subway safety plan at the start of this year. The mission then and now is to confront the many challenges we race on the subways, including crime, quality of life and homelessness,” Wilcox said.


“We fully understand that perception could sometimes influence behavior just as much as reality can. So as the commissioner said, we remain committed to ensuring our public transit rides are not only safe but that they feel safe, too.”


To ensure New Yorkers are feeling safe underground, he said, NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell partnered with the MTA to record audio announcements that’ll air every 15 minutes at 400 subway stations through the end of October.


“Hello, I’m NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell. New York relies on its subway system like no other city in the nation. And your NYPD officers are working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to keep it safe,” one of the announcements states.


“Enjoy your ride, and thank you for choosing mass transit.”

 

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Subway rider slashed, pepper-sprayed by spurned panhandler: cops

A Manhattan straphanger was slashed and pepper-sprayed by a spurned panhandler early Wednesday, cops said.

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Subway rider slashed, pepper-sprayed by spurned panhandler: cops​

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Amanda Woods


October 12, 2022 8:50am
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A Manhattan straphanger was slashed and pepper-sprayed by a spurned panhandler early Wednesday, cops said.
The 57-year-old victim was riding a northbound 1 train between West 42nd and West 50th streets around 1:30 a.m. when another man started begging him for money, authorities said.
When the rider refused to hand over any cash, the suspect pepper-sprayed him and cut him on the right arm with a knife, cops said.
A 57-year-old man was slashed and pepper-sprayed on a northbound 1 train traveling through Midtown when he refused to fork over money to a straphanger, cops said. Robert Mecea
The assailant, believed to be in his 20s, got off the train at West 50th Street and has not yet been caught.
The victim stayed on the train until the next stop, 59th Street–Columbus Circle, where police responded.
He was taken to Mount Sinai West, where he was treated for lacerations and released, authorities said.
In a separate incident on the rails, a 13-year-old boy was pummeled and robbed on a Brooklyn train on Oct. 3, cops said this week.
The victim stayed on the train until 59th Street – Columbus Circle, where police responded.Robert Mecea
The teen victim was riding a Manhattan-bound F train approaching the Avenue P station when a group of guys approached him around 4 p.m., police said.
The crew of four punched him multiple times in the head and grabbed his backpack and cell phone before taking off, authorities said.
The victim was taken to Maimonides Medical Center in stable condition with bruising to his head and face.
Four suspects ganged up on a 13-year-old boy, punching him and robbing him on a Brooklyn train last week, cops said. NYPD
The young-looking suspects – all wearing backpacks – are shown on surveillance footage released late Tuesday walking on a rainy street.
Police are still looking to track them down.
The attacks come amid a recent string of violent attacks in the city’s subway system.
In an unprovoked assault earlier this week, a 49-year-old woman was struck in the head with scissors at the Cathedral Parkway station in Harlem around 2:30 a.m. Monday, authorities said.
Meanwhile, murders in the subway system since 2020 have skyrocketed to the highest annual levels in 25 years, even amid plummeting ridership numbers.
Most recently, two Big Apple dads – Tommy Bailey, 43, and Charles Moore, 38 – were separately knifed to death in random attacks on their commutes home from work.

 

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1 shot, 2 others stabbed in night of mayhem across NYC

Shortly before 2 a.m., an individual was stabbed in the Delancey Street/Essex Street subway station on the Lower East Side.

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1 shot, 2 others stabbed in night of mayhem across NYC​

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October 15, 2022 9:50am
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A stabbing took place at 1:55 a.m. in the Essex Street subway station on Delancy Street. Seth Gottfried

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One person was shot in Queens and two people were stabbed in Manhattan in separate incidents overnight, police said.
A man was shot in the right thigh and left hand on 12th Street and 40th Avenue in Long Island City around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, cops said. The victim, 40, was taken to Mount Sinai Queens hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. There are no arrests and police do not know what sparked the shooting. The suspect, a man wearing a blue jacket, ran off, police said.
Shortly before 2 a.m., an individual was stabbed in the Delancey Street/Essex Street subway station on the Lower East Side, according to cops at the scene.
The NYPD did not immediately release details of the incident.
A man was stabbed near 1170 Broadway at 4:20 a.m..Seth Gottfried NYPD did not immediately release details of the subway incident.Seth Gottfried

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At around 3:50 a.m., an unidentified man was stabbed in his left forearm outside 1170 Broadway, near West 28th Street by a man wearing a yellow bubble jacket, cops said. The victim was transported to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. There are no arrests.

 

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One dead, two hurt in overnight shootings across NYC

A man in his 20s was fatally shot in the rear of the Jackie Robinson Houses on East 128th Street in East Harlem at around 3:10 a.m. Saturday, cops said.

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One dead, two hurt in overnight shootings across NYC​

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October 22, 2022 8:44am
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NYPD officers pick up clothes left behind after a male was fatally shot by the Jackie Robinson Houses on in East Harlem. Seth Gottfried




One man was fatally shot and two others wounded in a spate of violence overnight, police said.
A man in his 20s was found shot in the chest in the rear of the Jackie Robinson Houses on East 128th Street in East Harlem at around 3:10 a.m. Saturday, cops said.
The victim was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital.
The 5-foot-9, 150-pound gunman, dressed in all black clothing, ran off, the NYPD said.
There are no arrests, authorities said.
Two hours later, at 5:10 a.m., a man was shot in the head on East 219th Street, near Barnes Avenue in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx, cops said. The victim, 62, was taken to Jacobi Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, police said. There are no arrests, authorities said.
Late Friday, a 25-year-old man was shot in the stomach in the East Village.


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NYPD officers gather evidence at the scene of the fatal shooting in East Harlem. Seth Gottfried

No arrests have been made after a man was fatally shot in East Harlem. Seth Gottfried

The male victim was fatally shot in the chest. Seth Gottfried



The shooting took place near the corner of St. Mark’s Place and 1st Avenue just after 11 p.m., according to the NYPD.


The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital and is expected to survive, cops said. Three shell casings were recovered from the scene.





No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.

 

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8 innocent bystanders — in one month — caught in the crossfire of NYC’s out-of-control shooting surge

Out-of-control criminals have left a bloody trail of innocent victims in their wake, with a least seven bystanders hit by stray bullets in the Big Apple in the past month alone.

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8 innocent bystanders — in one month — caught in the crossfire of NYC’s out-of-control shooting surge​

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New Yorkers sound off about gun violence in the city






A 16-year-old girl hanging out with her friends after school who was sitting on a park swing when the bullet struck.
A grandmother walking home from her afternoon grocery shopping who looked down and saw blood on her leg.
A retired cop, 60, heading to his job with child protective child services, when he found himself in the middle of a gang shooting.
These were just some of the at least eight innocent bystanders hit by stray bullets in the past month alone as a wave of gun violence grips New York City.
Out-of-control criminals have been leaving a bloody trail of innocent victims in the Big Apple, the most recent being a 14-year-old boy who was shot in the leg outside his Staten Island high school on Tuesday. Police on Wednesday released surveillance footage of five men wanted for questioning in connection to the shooting, including the apparent triggerman.

On Monday, a 70-year-old woman and a pregnant teenager joined the grim list when they were hit in separate shootings just hours apart. Both women survived.


“It’s even more crazy, because this has been happening in New York City back-to-back,” said Jolaine Marrero, whose pregnant 19-year-old friend was hit by a stray bullet while sitting in a car in Washington Heights at around 9 p.m.


“It wasn’t something so crazy to even picture us New Yorkers hearing stuff like this,” Marrero told The Post. “It’s like we are accustomed to s–t like this happening. It’s really sad New York has to change. A city we once loved is turning into a city we now fear.”

Police at the scene of a female shot on W. 165th St. and Broadway in upper Manhattan.William C. Lopez/NYPOST
Marilyn Hunte, the 70-year-old Brooklyn grandmother shot in the leg while walking home from the grocery store at around 2 p.m., said she worried that New Yorkers are living in “some scary times.”

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“There’s just too many guns out there and people with anger issues — mental problems and anger issues,” said Hunte, a retired 8th-grade school teacher. “It’s scary.”


“Things are getting out of control,” she said. “I like the mayor, I voted for him, but he has a big job on his hands. He’s going to need help to fix it. I pray that he can.”


Hunte on Wednesday showed a Post reporter a photo of the two bloodstained $20 she had in her pocket when the bullet struck, having just gotten them when she used her debit card at a Foodtown in Bedford-Stuyvesant.


“That money was in my pants pocket that day,” she said. “That’s my blood on it.”


The tough-as-nails granny realized she’d been hit when she “heard the gunshot sound and felt a slap to the side of my leg” — leaving her in shock.


“I touched it and saw the blood. That was confirmation,” she said, adding that, “I didn’t fall” when the bullet struck her.


“I thought of where the bullet hit me — had that been a child, the child would’ve been dead,” she said.

Marilyn Hunte, 70, was shot in the thigh in Bedford-Stuyvesant just after 2:15 p.m. on Oct. 24, 2022. The $20 bills Hunte got from the grocery store before the shooting, now soaked in blood.
Her cousin, Laurice Johnson, told The Post she missed the days when street thugs would settle disputes with their fists — instead of their firearms.


“Don’t pick up guns, especially when you obviously don’t know how to use it,” said Johnson, who is also 70. “Why can’t you just duke it out like they did back in the day?


“You went to blows, best man won,” she said. “Just duke it out … You ain’t killing nobody and you’re certainly not killing no stranger.”

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All eight bystanders shot over the last month escaped with their lives, though will likely have lasting scars.


They included a retired NYPD detective, Terence Felder, who took a bullet to the stomach in Harlem at around 7 a.m. on Oct. 4, and a 40-year-old off-duty corrections officer grazed while driving along the Cross Island Parkway in Queens on Oct. 15.


On Oct. 2 — in the month’s first stray-shot shooting — a 35-year-old woman was sitting inside a Royal Fried Chicken restaurant in Brownsville when a bullet from a gunfight outside pierced through the eatery and hit her wrist.


Late last month, four teenagers, including 15-year-old April Castaneda and a 16-year-old boy, were hit stray slugs at the London Planetree Playground in Queens.


April’s brother, Kevin Castaneda, 26, told The Post at the time that his sister was a “tough little kid” — but that he couldn’t believe what had happened to her.


“I can’t wrap my head around it because it’s my little sister and I’m supposed to protect her,” he said.

The victim shot was a retired 8th grade teacher in Brooklyn.Peter Gerber
Nadine Sobers, whose teen daughter, Kyla, 16, was shot in the head and wounded in a separate park shooting in Brooklyn on Sept. 30, called the rampant gunplay “repugnant.”


“It left a bad taste in my mouth,” the worried mom said Tuesday. “It’s not safe. As a parent looking in, it’s out of control. I don’t know if they don’t care about going to jail or they don’t care about the next life.


“They are destroying families,” she said. “Something has to be done. You call for more gun control but what is it if you write it on a piece of paper and that’s it? What are our governor, our mayor, politicians doing? It makes me feel angry.”

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Some of the stray bullet shootings have had deadly consequences. In May, 11-year-old Kyhara Tay was mortally wounded while standing on a Bronx street. Witnesses said the young girl stumbled into a nail salon bleeding and clutching her stomach before she passed out.


“To me, it’s like nothing is going to change,” the girl’s heartbroken dad, Sokpini Tay, said Tuesday.


“Young kids are dying,” he said. “They are dying just going outside to go play or go to the store. Not just me, but everybody would like to see something done.”


The grieving man added, “I’m not hopeful.”


“I wish this would never happen to anybody,” he said. “I haven’t stopped crying. Some days are okay. Some days are really hard.”

An 11-year-old girl is a victim in the crossfire of a shooting on a Bronx corner.NYPD
The NYPD says it does not track stray-bullet shootings separately from the overall gun violence that is plaguing the five boroughs.


Police stats show that, overall, shootings in the city are down so far this year compared to the same period last year, with 1,105 incidents this year compared to 1,294 this year.


But the number of shootings citywide has spiked more than 68% over the past five years, the statistics show — and bystanders have been in the line of fire in recent weeks.





“These shootings tell you all you need to know about New York City right now — no one is safe from the indiscriminate gun violence or the lack of consequences that drive it,” one police officer told The Post.


“You have no right to feel safe in this city,” he said.

 

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Subway shoves in NYC exceed number of incidents compared to last year

A total of 22 people have been shoved in the subway system as of Oct. 16 and another three subway attacks have occurred since then, law enforcement sources told The Post.

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Subway shoves in NYC exceed number of incidents compared to last year​

By
Larry Celona and

David Propper


October 27, 2022 12:36am
Updated

Carlos Garcia (center) faces charges for killing Heriberto Quintana after fatally punching him in the face -- which caused the 48-year-old to roll onto the tracks before he died. Gabriella Bass






The city’s beleaguered transit system has already seen people violently shoved from the platform at least 25 times this year, eclipsing the total from last year, sources said on Wednesday.
A total of 22 people have been shoved in the subway system as of Oct. 16 and another three subway attacks have occurred since then, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Last year, the city tallied a grand total of 21 subway shoves as of Oct. 16.
Two of the subway attacks this year have been fatal, including on Oct. 17 when a father of three was knocked onto the subway tracks and fatally struck by a train in Queens.
Heriberto Quintana, 48, was killed when he bumped into another man, Carlos Garcia, 50, whose cell phone then fell onto the tracks, cops said.
Garcia demanded Quintana retrieve the phone, but Quintana refused, leading to a scuffle on the platform before Garcia allegedly punched Quintana in the face and caused him to roll onto the tracks, police said.
Michelle Alyssa Go was randomly shoved onto the train tracks and struck by an R train, police said.Wayne Carrington
Garcia faces manslaughter charges in the senseless case.
“I just want justice for the death of my husband because there’s no situation where you take a life because of a phone. A phone doesn’t equal a life,” Quintana’s widow Hilda Rojas told The Post last week.
In January, a graduate of NYU’s prestigious Stern School of Business was randomly pushed to her death by a stranger at Times Square subway station.
Michelle Alyssa Go, 40, was waiting on the southbound platform when she was shoved onto the train tracks and struck by an R train, police said.
Heriberto Quintana was fatally pushed onto the tracks after he getting into an argument with another man over a cell phone. CBS News
Michelle Alyssa Go was randomly shoved onto the train tracks and struck by an R train, police said.linkedin
The man then walked into a transit precinct on Canal Street and declared that he “pushed a woman in front of a train.”
The most recent attack occurred in the Bronx Sunday when a 62-year-old grandpa was slugged and shoved onto the tracks on the platform of the 149th Street-Grand Concourse station, cops said.
The victim, Ronald Baptiste, was able to get off the tracks safely, police said.
Deshaun Smith is being charged with assault for pushing a 62-year-old man onto the tracks on the platform of the 149th Street-Grand Concourse station.Wayne Carrington
Baptiste told The Post this week he paid the MTA $2.75 “so a guy could bash me in the head and throw me in the middle of the tracks.”
“I want to be able to walk into the subway system and feel safe,” he added.
Deshaun Smith, 21, has been charged with assault in the incident, according to police.

 

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Two shot, two slashed in overnight mayhem across NYC

Big Apple bloodshed left two people shot and two others hurt in separate incidents across the city overnight.

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Two shot, two slashed in overnight mayhem across NYC​

By
Dean Balsamini


October 29, 2022 12:47pm
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Big Apple bloodshed left two people shot and two others hurt in separate incidents across the city overnight.
A man in his 30s walked into Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn with a gunshot wound to his chest shortly before 5:30 a.m. Saturday, the NYPD said.
The victim, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries, was shot on the corner of Rockaway Parkway and Church Avenue, police said. He did not explain how he got shot, authorities said. There have been no arrests.
Around 10:30 p.m. Friday, a 38-year-old man was shot in the left foot during an altercation on Third Avenue, near East 118th Street in East Harlem, cops said. The victim was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. There have been no arrests.
Separately, two men were hurt during a stabbing in the Times Square subway station early Saturday.


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One man was shot on the corner of Rockaway Parkway and Church Ave. early Saturday morning. Police said the victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Seth Gottfried

Two people were shot and two others were injured in separate incidents across the city overnight. Christopher Sadowski

A 38-year-old man was shot in the left foot on E118th Street near Third Ave late Friday night after an altercation occurred. Christopher Sadowski



One man was arrested after allegedly stabbing a 23-year-old victim in the torso and leg during a melee in the station, cops said. The 22-year-old suspect, whom police described as the “aggressor,” had a slash wound to the head which may have been self-inflicted.

 

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Paroled criminals avoid jail despite new arrests thanks to dangerous NY law reform: critics

“This is another example of progressive politicians taking another tool out of our toolbox,” a disgusted officer said of “Less is More.”

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Paroled criminals avoid jail despite new arrests thanks to dangerous NY law reform: critics​

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Larry Celona and

Mark Lungariello


October 30, 2022 6:26pm
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A rep from New York Gov. Kathy Hochul says she continues to work with law enforcement to "improve the criminal justice system, combat violence, and strengthen public safety." AP





A change in New York law has made it tougher to put parolees back behind bars when they are accused of a new crime, critics say.
Flaws in the “Less is More” act – signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul last year — have been exposed by several recent high-profile crimes involving suspects on parole who were re-arrested for heinous acts, only to then be freed again thanks to the so-called reforms, according to critics.
“Before, if someone was on parole and they got arrested, they would have to go back to jail and finish their sentence. Now parolees aren’t afraid of getting arrested and going back to jail,” a Queens cop said.
“This is another example of progressive politicians taking another tool out of our toolbox,” the disgusted officer said of “Less is More.”
The law places strict limits on parolees who commit technical violations, such as failing to show up for a hearing or failing a drug test – but it also offers new protections and hearing deadlines to suspects when they are accused of fresh crimes.
For example, a warrant now has to be sought for a suspect breaking parole, and a hearing must be held within a specific timeframe.
Bui Van Phu was let out on no bail thanks to “Less is More” — until The Post brought attention to it. The man was caught on camera punching a stranger, sending him into a coma.DCPI
“It is extremely hard to get a warrant,” noted Wayne Spence, a parole officer and president of the Public Employees Federation, New York’s second-largest state-employee union, which is pushing to amend the law to avoid the move.
He said politicians should study the effect of the law to determine how many parolees are involved in crimes compared to several years ago, suggesting that the changes make it easier for them to stay on the streets to possibly commit more crimes.
Convicted sex-offender Bui Van Phu was on lifetime parole when he was accused of sucker-punching a stranger and putting him in a coma in The Bronx in August. He was still let out on no bail thanks to “Less is More” — until The Post’s front-page coverage prompted Hochul to push for authorities to issue a warrant on the parole violation.
Critics argue that before the governor’s own reform, Phu could have automatically been put in jail for violating his parole when in court for the sucker-punch case.
Waheed Foster randomly beat a woman in a Queens subway station. Foster was cut loose pending a hearing process under the new law.
When vagrant Waheed Foster was arrested for breaking his parole in August over two separate incidents — one for alleged criminal possession of stolen property and the other for criminal mischief — a judge cut him loose pending a hearing process under the new law, over the objections of parole officials.
While out, he randomly beat a woman in a Queens subway station so badly her eyesight was in jeopardy, cops say.
Suspected gang member Lesean Carson, on parole since 2019, racked up new weapons arrests and stopped reporting to his parole officer in August — but didn’t end up in jail thanks to “Less is More” until he was arrested for criminal possession of a weapon again Sept. 26, according to sources and officials.
And serial burglar Gregor Gauger was arrested multiple times and pleaded guilty to charges in August, but still walked free as per the law until another arrest Sept. 6. He was finally held in custody.
The state’s controversial bail-reform laws, passed in 2019, and “Less is More” go hand-in-hand in terms of catering to criminals, said defense lawyer Mark Bederow.
The law places strict limits on parolees who commit technical violations.Getty Images/iStockphoto Defense lawyer Mark Bederow shared his thoughts on the new law.Gregory P. Mango
“Guys who a couple of years ago unquestionably would’ve been held get let out,” Bederow told The Post. “That’s just the reality.
“Do I think that guys know that? Of course they know that. … The same way they know if they commit certain offenses, they know the likelihood bail will be set is less.”



Avi Small, a rep for Hochul, said the governor continues to work with law enforcement to “improve the criminal justice system, combat violence, and strengthen public safety.”


“Under Governor Hochul’s leadership, DOCCS has worked closely with law enforcement and continued to hold individuals accountable when they violate parole, including revoking parole when warranted and issuing 377 warrants for parole violations in September alone,” Small said in a statement.

 

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Man shot dead in NYC while bicycling to shoot someone else: cops

At least three people were shot across the city overnight – including one victim wounded just blocks away from the Halloween parade route, and a latex glove-wearing bicyclist fatally gunned down wh…

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Man shot dead in NYC while bicycling to shoot someone else: cops​

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Amanda Woods and

Tina Moore


November 1, 2022 4:57pm
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At least three people were shot across the city overnight – including a latex-glove-wearing bicyclist fatally gunned down while pedaling to pull off a suspected hit himself, cops and police sources said.
The slain 26-year-old man was riding a bike at Crown Street and Rogers Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, around 2 a.m. Tuesday when he was blasted in the head by a drive-by shooter in a dark-colored sedan, cops said.
The victim – who had been arrested a dozen times in the city – was wearing black rubber gloves when he was shot, and investigators believe he had planned to carry out a shooting with two other guys, police sources said.
He was rushed to the Kings County Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The shooting is believed to be gang-related.
About two hours earlier, a 21-year-old man was blasted in the buttocks and lower back around 11:50 p.m. Monday on East 13th Street near University Place in Manhattan, authorities said.
A 26-year-old bicyclist was gunned down by a drive-by shooter at Crown Street and Rogers Avenue in Crown Heights.Robert Mecea
He was taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
The motive for the shooting is unclear, and the victim was uncooperative with investigators, police said.
While the scene is just blocks from the Halloween Parade route, there is no known link to any Halloween festivities, cops said.
The parade traditionally runs along Sixth Avenue from Canal Street to 15th Street.
Gloves were left behind on the sidewalk at the scene of the Crown Heights shooting.Robert Mecea
Another drive-by shooting also happened around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday at Astoria Boulevard North and Steinway Street in Queens, cops said.
The victim, a 27-year-old man who also has multiple prior arrests, was shot in the left arm, left leg and buttocks at Astoria Boulevard North and Steinway Street around 1:30 a.m., cops said.
Investigators believe the victim of the fatal Crown Heights shooting was planning a shooting of his own, police sources said. Robert Mecea
The shooter – who appeared to be wearing a black hoodie, black hat and blue jeans – opened fire as he drove south on Steinway Street in a white SUV, possibly a Dodge Durango, cops said.



Investigators found six shell casings at the scene.

 

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5 shot in NYC overnight, including possible innocent bystander: cops

The 26-year-old victim was leaving a building on Nostrand Avenue near Bergen Street in Crown Heights around 3 a.m. Wednesday when she was shot.

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5 shot in NYC overnight, including possible innocent bystander: cops​

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Amanda Woods


November 2, 2022 1:31pm
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A woman struck by stray bullets was among at least five people injured in separate shootings overnight in the Big Apple, police said Wednesday.
The 26-year-old victim was leaving a building on Nostrand Avenue near Bergen Street in Crown Heights around 3 a.m. when someone walked up and started shooting at a person standing near her, cops said.
The rounds instead struck her in the back and in both of her legs. She was not believed to be the intended target, according to police.
The incident appears to be the latest in a wave of innocent bystanders getting caught in the crosshairs of gun violence in New York City.
The suspect in Wednesday’s stray-bullet shooting fled on a bicycle, cops said. The victim was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center in critical but stable condition.
About an hour earlier, a 19-year-old man walked into St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx with a gunshot wound to his buttocks.
A woman was leaving a building on Nostrand Avenue around 3 a.m. when someone walked up and started shooting at a person standing near her, police said. Seth Gottfried
He was shot in the confines of the 48th Precinct – which covers Belmont, East Tremont, and West Farms – and simply reported hearing shots and feeling pain. He was listed in stable condition.

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In Brownsville, a 38-year-old man was shot in the right leg and buttocks on Watkins Street near New Lots Avenue around 10 p.m., authorities said. He was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
The suspect fled on a black motorcycle, police said.
A 22-year-old man was blasted in the leg at Ocean Avenue and Regent Place in Flatbush around 9:20 p.m., cops said.
The gunman fled on foot, and 10 shell casings were recovered at the scene, authorities said.
The victim was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center in stable condition.
Earlier in the evening, a man was shot in the buttocks as he sat in a car on West 114th Street near Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in Harlem around 8 p.m., cops said.


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Police investigate the scene of the shooting at Nostrand Avenue. Seth Gottfried

The incident is the latest in a wave of innocent bystanders getting caught in gun violence throughout New York City. Seth Gottfried



Six male teens fled on foot in an unknown direction after the shooting, police said. A gun was recovered.


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The victim was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside in stable condition, authorities said.


No arrests have been made in any of the shootings.

 

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Two injured in overnight NYC shootings, cops say

Four men wearing black ski masks are wanted for the shootings.

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Two injured in overnight NYC shootings, cops say​

By
Dean Balsamini and

Larry Celona


November 5, 2022 9:12am
Updated

Police at the scene where two women were shot outside the Frederick E. Samuel apartments near Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in Harlem. Christopher Sadowski


Two women were shot outside a West Harlem public housing project overnight, police said.
The victims, ages 35 and “around 19 or 20,” were both struck in the arm when gunfire erupted Friday at 11 p.m. in front of the Frederick E. Samuel apartments, a NYCHA building on West 147th St., cops said.
The women were taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition, police said.
Four men wearing black ski masks are wanted for the shootings. They were last seen heading eastbound on West 143rd Street, authorities said.
The motive for the shooting is unknown, cops said.
“We don’t know if they were targeted,” an NYPD spokesman said Saturday.
Police do not have a motive for the shootings.Christopher Sadowski The two wounded women were transported to Harlem Hospital in stable condition.Christopher Sadowski

 

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Bank robberies surge in the Big Apple, up 42% in 2022

There have been 135 bank heists through Oct. 23 compared to 95 during the same period in 2021.

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Bank robberies surge in the Big Apple, up 42% in 2022​

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Dean Balsamini,

Matthew Sedacca and

Melissa Klein


November 5, 2022 8:44am
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There have been 135 bank heists through Oct. 23 compared to 95 during the same period in 2021. J.C.Rice

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Big Apple bank robberies have shot up 42% this year, with one midtown TD Bank hit an eye-popping four times.
There have been 135 bank heists through Oct. 23 compared to 95 during the same period in 2021, according to the NYPD.
The TD Bank at the busy corner of East 57th and Third Avenue has been a magnet for bandits since March, with the latest heist happening this month.
A serial thief wearing a blue baseball cap walked into the branch on Oct. 20 and handed over a note saying “This is a bank robbery, I have a gun, open the drawer and pass me the money.”
He did not display a weapon and fled with about $760, the NYPD said.
The same bearded robber is suspected in two of the other robberies at the branch as well as in 15 other heists in Queens and Manhattan at Chase, Citi and Santander banks — walking away with a total of about $15,000, police said.
The TD Bank at the busy corner of East 57th and Third Avenue has been a magnet for bandits.J.C.Rice
Video from a May robbery at a Capital One branch in Queens shows the suspect, who is wearing a baseball cap with “New York” on it and a zippered sweatshirt, sauntering into the branch carrying a paper shopping bag but without a mask or other facial covering.
The brazen thief has struck several branches repeatedly.
He is alleged to have hit the East 57th Street TD branch on June 8, taking $520, and on Sept. 1. making off with $545, police said.
The branch was also robbed on March 21 when a different suspect made off with $1,268, the NYPD said.
Serial thieves have been targeting several of the same areas.J.C.Rice
A customer at the targeted TD Bank said that she “wished” the news about all the heists “surprised me a bit more.”
“It does make me question more about what times I want to stop by or use the ATM, or when I go in if it seems there’s enough people around, although sometimes that doesn’t seem to be a deterrent,” said the 28-year-old woman, who gave her name only as Lizzie.
A security guard at the bank was alarmed by the repeated robberies.



“They’re beginning to not care,” the guard said about the thieves. “It’s sad.”


Nationwide, the number of bank robberies fell from 2,440 in 2019 to 1,724 in 2021. The nationwide peak came in 1991 with 9,388 robberies.


A TD bank spokesman said, “The safety of our customers and colleagues is a top priority. We have security measures in place, and when robberies occur, we work closely with law enforcement and offer programs to support impacted TD colleagues.”