July 5, 2022
The count of 52 shooting victims between Friday through Monday marked a 62.5% increase from the same period last year, when 32 people were wounded by gunfire across the city, data provided by the NYPD shows.
By comparison, there were 13 people shot on July 4, 2021 — compared to the 21 shot Monday.
There were 13 people shot on July 4, 2021 — compared to the 21 shot Monday.
Nine people were shot Sunday, compared to five on the same date last year. Saturday’s victims of gunfire totaled 16, double the number shot that day in 2021. And six people were shot Friday, the same number as last year.
“What crime is doing is it is overshadowing all that we’re doing,” Mayor Eric Adams said at a Queens press conference. “We have some real W’s, and crime is the No. 1 issue on New Yorkers’ minds right.
After a terrible start to the year, the city’s gun problem has improved, and shooting incidents for the first half of 2022 were actually down 12% versus 2021. But abrupt spasms of violence, particularly over weekends, still plague the five boroughs.
The first fatal shooting happened at 11:30 p.m. Monday at a deli in East New York. The circumstances of the dispute are not yet clear, but two men, 21 and 23, are dead, and a third, 18, is in critical condition at Brookdale. A suspect is in custody.
At almost the same moment, in the Bronx, three people were shot on Prospect Avenue in the Belmont section.
A 62-year-old man is dead, and two other men, 23 and 26, are stable at St. Barnabas.
And then after midnight, there were at least two more shootings, in Norwood (a man shot in the shoulder) and Morrisania (a man shot in the chest).
“We saw what happened in Chicago … outside the city of Chicago,” Adams added.
Asked Tuesday whether he believed his administration’s plan to combat the scourge of gun violence is working in light of the recent shootings, Mayor Eric Adams acknowledged crime is a top issue on the minds of New Yorkers right now.
The gun violence in New York City follows the Illinois July 4th parade shooting that took six lives, as well as a shooting at a Philadelphia July 4th event that left two cops wounded and sent people scrambling for cover.
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