Two women and three men were injured, one seriously, when gunfire erupted on the famous Coney Island boardwalk in New York City early Sunday morning in the latest weekend of violence in the Big Apple.
At around 2 a.m., gunfire rang out on the 21st Street boardwalk, where a large crowd had gathered for a pop-up party, injuring the five. No one will now cooperate with a police investigation into her shooting, and a motive is unclear.
A 31-year-old man is in critical condition at Coney Island Hospital after being shot in the back. Four other victims are in stable condition at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn. Their names have not been published.
A 36-year-old man was shot in the chin and a 19-year-old man in the leg. Two women – a 27-year-old and a 26-year-old – were both shot in the left leg.
As of Sunday afternoon, no arrests have been made and the incident is still under investigation, an NYPD spokesman told . A description of the shooter was not given.
It’s not clear what triggered the shooting, and a police source told the New York Post, “Right now, the five victims are saying nothing.”
The eerie video, captured through a window by local eyewitnesses and shared on Citizen, showed the moment they saw a man – believed to be the shooter – run through the neighborhood with something hidden in hand.
The early Sunday morning shooting is the latest in a weekend of violence in New York City that has seen at least six other people shot dead across the city and a 14-year-old boy stabbed to death on the subway.
A witness went live on Citizen and recorded the scene from their window when five people were injured on Sunday morning
A 44-year-old man was shot and killed just before 9 a.m. Sunday in a Brooklyn council building after an argument broke out between the victim and the gunman. No arrests were made in that shooting, which took place at the Breukelen Houses on Flatlands Avenue.
Two men were shot dead outside a Bronx nightclub around 2am on Sunday and two others – a 21-year-old and a 26-year-old – were shot dead at the Last Stop Bar & Grill on White Plains Road. They were listed in stable condition.
A 31-year-old woman was shot in the arm by an apparent stray bullet at around 3:26 a.m. while walking in the Emmons Avenue and Nostrand Avenue area of Sheepshead Bay.
The Coney Island Boardwalk was empty Sunday morning as police continued their investigation. There were no arrests as of Sunday afternoon
The shooting happened Sunday morning during a pop-up party on the famous Coney Island boardwalk in New York City. The promenade (seen on July 4th) is a popular tourist destination
According to statistics released by the NYPD, the number of serious crimes this year through July 3 has increased by 38% compared to the same period in 2021.
Violence in the subway continued to escalate on Saturday when a 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death after a scuffle on the platform in the afternoon.
He was named as Yonkers’ Ethan Reyes Sunday night.
Officers responded to the 137 Street – City College train station in Hamilton Heights, north of Columbia University, where they found the teenager on the northbound 1 platform with a stab wound to the abdomen.
The victim was transported to Mount Sinai St. Luke’s where he was pronounced dead.
Violence in the subway continued to escalate on Saturday when a 14-year-old boy was stabbed to death after a scuffle on the platform in the afternoon
Witnesses told local news outlets that the brawl began when three teenage girls tried to rob the victim.
The witness said: “There were girls. There were three little girls. There was a guy with the green one like me, he stabbed, and there were also two small children, maybe 13 or 14. They wanted to take his phone.’
The person also said that the emergency services arrived too late to save the teenager: “When they brought him up he was dead. His head was tilted back, his eyes were rolled white and purple again, his lips were purple, purple . He was dead.”
One person, a man, is being held in custody not far from the scene in connection with the incident. When he was arrested, he was bleeding from his back and stomach.
It is the third stabbing this week on the New York subway. On Tuesday, a 55-year-old man was stabbed in the back and punched in the face in an unprovoked attack around 6 p.m. at Brooklyn’s Jay Street Metrotech station.
The victim was taken to hospital and is said to be in stable condition.
On train seven in Queens, a driver had his face and hands cut at around 8:30 a.m. during the morning rush hour. This victim was also taken to the hospital in stable condition.
In January, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that 1,000 more officers would be deployed on the nation’s largest subway system.
Violent crime has become endemic in New York’s transportation system in 2022.
According to statistics released by the NYPD, the number of serious crimes this year through July 3 has increased by 38% compared to the same period in 2021
According to statistics from the Metropolitan Transit Authority, rapes and robberies have increased by over 50% this year compared to the same time. Meanwhile, crime is up over 15% and grand theft is up over 97%.
While crime is on the rise, the number of subway riders has also increased by almost 35% compared to last year.
In June, it was announced that the NYPD was installing 100 hidden cameras on subways across the city.
The cameras are not monitored and do not transmit in real time, but are used as a backup to help investigators collect evidence.