A 38-year-old man was shot dead and a 24-year-old man was injured while the two were sitting in a Mercedes-Benz in East Harlem on Sunday morning as gun violence continued to rise in new York.
The two men were driving on Fifth Avenue near 138th East Street when the suspect “shot the car several times,” police said.
The 38-year-old man was hit in the head by a bullet and was found dead on the spot by the ambulance crews. The younger victim walked to Haarlem Hospital, where she was being treated for a gunshot wound to the arm. Pos. in New Yorkt reports.
Details of the suspect have not yet been released and no arrests have been made since Sunday afternoon. It is unclear whether the attack was accidental and the sequence of events that led to the shooting.
A 38-year-old man was shot dead and a 24-year-old man was injured in a shooting Sunday morning in East Harlem
The two men were driving on Fifth Avenue near East 138th Street when the suspect “shot at the car several times,” police said.
Details of the suspect have not yet been released and it is unclear whether the attack was accidental
The shooting comes two days after East Harlem saw another deadly shooting of a 25-year-old man identified by police as Shaquel Ganey, who lived one block from the shooting on Second Avenue.
Gaine was shot in the chest in front of a liquor store and ran into Kanan Deli & Grocery, where he fell around 11pm on Friday, according to Fox 5.
Someone on the scene called the emergency services and the first responders found Gainer lying on the floor covered in blood. They rushed him to Haarlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
No arrests have been made yet and the motive for the shooting is unclear. Police are still investigating and did not provide details about the suspect.
Shooting in New York has risen 30 percent since last year, with 174 reported incidents in the last seven weeks ending Feb. 20, according to the latest NYPD figures. For the same period last year there were 133 shootings.
Crime has also increased by more than 20 percent, according to NYPD data, with 2,994 incidents reported this year, compared with 2,477 in 2021.
Murders have also risen slightly, with New York City police up 3.8 percent from 2021.
Meanwhile, rape and robbery have risen by 42 and 32 percent, respectively.
A recent report released earlier this month by New York City police showed that almost every New York City police station has seen jumps in crime this year – including five, which have doubled, according to data from the New York City Police Department. New York.
Shooting in New York has increased by 30 percent compared to last year, with 174 incidents this year compared to 133 last year.
Queens was particularly hard hit by the influx of incidents, with an almost 150% increase in overall crime.
Last Tuesday, Queens police tracked a career criminal with 19 previous arrests and three convictions for assault, accused of shooting a mother of four walking her dog to a Brooklyn shop window.
Namel Colon, 36, was arrested at a Chinese restaurant in Queens after evading capture for nearly two months after the January 2 shooting at the Salim Smoke Shop in Bedford-Stuyvesant, during which Jennifer Inoa, 36, was walking, and her annual pet pit bulls were dead.
Colon, who lives on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, according to public records, was later handcuffed and taken to the 79th district of the neighborhood, where he is accused of murder and criminal possession of weapons, police said.
It is unclear whether Colon was on bail, parole or parole at the time of the attack, and it is not known how he escaped investigators for seven weeks after the shooting.
Last Tuesday, police in Queens tracked down a career criminal in connection with the January 2 shooting at the Salim Smoke Shop in Bedford-Stavesant, which left 36-year-old dog Jennifer Inoa and her annual pet pit bull dead. The footage shows Inoa and her dog in the store just before the shooting, while a man, although the intended target, seen in the lower right corner of the image, watches eating a bag of chips.
Jennifer Inoa, 36, a mother of four, was shot dead by a suspect in a Brooklyn deli last month when she opened fire on another customer at the store
Her one-year-old pit bull Blue was also killed during the January 2 attack
But he had previously been released on parole after being jailed three times for assault as New York State faces questions about his unsecured policy, which critics warn flooded the streets with dangerous criminals, many of them then commit a repeat offense.
Records show that Colon is a serial criminal with 19 previous arrests with 11 serious crimes, including three crimes for which he was serving a sentence and was released on parole or parole.
Conditional release refers to when a prisoner is released early and has similar responsibilities as parole.
Inoa, a mother of four who lived two blocks from the grocery store where she was shot, was walking her dog Blue when she was killed on the night of Jan. 2, her 46-year-old friend Carlton Bush said after the incident.
– I was angry. I’ve been doing a lot of this. I lost my wife and my dog, “Bush told the Daily News on Tuesday after his arrest. “He was my best friend. We had a family and needless to say, [the arrest] is a bit anticlimactic. ‘
Bush told the paper that Colon “will have to think about his own answers” about his alleged role in the assassination. – And fortunately he lives at least with his answers.
“She had children,” he continued. “She had people who loved and cared for her and everything, and now they took her life.
“That will not be punishable.”
Bush said Inoa’s children are now with their aunt.
Chinatown was also rocked by a shocking murder less than two weeks ago when 35-year-old Asian commercial Christina Yuna Lee was cut to death by a homeless serial criminal who followed her home to her apartment after being released on bail. .
Yuna was found by cops in her apartment with several stab wounds in the blood-soaked tub.
Christina Yuna Lee, 35, was stabbed to death in her New York apartment by a “homeless serial criminal” on February 13
Asamad Nash, 25, was arrested in connection with a murder in Chinatown. According to court records available from DailyMail.com, Nash has been arrested four times in the last year alone and was released on bail when he allegedly killed Lee.
Asamad Nash, 25, was arrested in connection with the murder. Horrifying footage shows the man the police say slipped into the building behind Lee after she got out of a taxi.
Our homeless man was released on bail after several unsolved crimes, including an attack in September and an arrest for criminal offenses in early January. He was due to stand trial on March 3rd. According to ABC7, he has been arrested at least seven times since 2015, most recently on January 6, 2022.
To tackle the “triggers” and areas known for high shooting rates, New York City police have unveiled a 90-day plan for the first three months of 2022 to make the fight against “crime, fear and riots” a top priority. , according to an NYPD inside note seen by the New York Post.
Those who have been involved in recent or multiple gun incidents are added to the list so that all units are aware of common violators in their areas.
According to the sought-after “Crime Plan 2022”, the Partnership for Strategies to Combat Fire Violence is stepping up the prosecution and investigation of these “high-value criminals”.
Under the new policy, sections that had more than 10 shooting incidents last year were tasked with outlining a plan on how to reduce gun crime in their teams, along with their annual crime reports. Detectives are also required to provide analyzes of conflicts between active criminal groups in their jurisdiction.
“The plan should include an analysis of the people, places and conflicts that have contributed to their gun violence and a site plan to deal with it,” the note said.
“These triggers are responsible for the disproportionate share of violence in the city and are the main drivers of violence in the area,” the note said.
More police patrols are “strongly targeted” at areas with higher gun violence rates, the note said, and the plan calls for “tightly managed saturation patrols” in those areas.
“The department makes an average of less than four targeted patrols / community visits per week in the top 100 gun violence blocs,” it said. “Most of these targeted patrols are not on the appropriate days and hours.”
“While targeted patrols are an imperfect measure of ‘engagement’, they tell us whether we spend our free time in areas prone to violence.”
‘We are not. This must change immediately.
Public transport and densely populated shopping areas also need more attention from New York City police, according to the plan, with the introduction of a specific “City Center Initiative” to reduce attacks and looting in the area.
“The goals should focus on reducing crime and riots in Midtown,” the note said. The tourist area, the note reads, is “emblematic of the city’s success and safety.”