New York Metropolis is beginning 2025 with two back-to-back killings inside six hours of the ball dropping in Instances Sq..
As police cleared out Instances Sq. so the town Division of Sanitation may sweep up all of the New Yr’s confetti, cops have been referred to as to W. 137th St. and Lenox Ave. in Harlem, the place they discovered a person sprawled out on the bottom with a slash wound to his neck about 4:20 a.m. Wednesday.
Medics rushed the sufferer to Harlem Hospital however he couldn’t be saved. Cops are nonetheless working to determine the person.
An hour later two males have been shot, one fatally, within the Bronx, police mentioned.
Gunshots rang out close to the nook of E. one hundred and seventieth St. and Teller Ave. about 5:20 a.m. When first responders arrived, they discovered a 23-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the neck and a 46-year-old man who had been shot in each legs.
Each males have been rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, the place the older man died, cops mentioned. His identify was not instantly launched as cops tracked down kinfolk.
No arrests have been made in both case.
Earlier within the night, in the previous few hours of 2024, two males have been shot and two others pistol-whipped throughout a crazed conflict in Canarsie, Brooklyn, cops mentioned.
A 23-year-old man was shot within the head and proper foot and a 62-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the intestine through the 7:15 p.m. taking pictures on E. one hundred and fifth St. close to Flatlands 2nd St., cops mentioned. The gunman additionally struck two different males, 20 and 25, along with his handgun earlier than working off.
All 4 males have been taken to Brookdale College Hospital, the place there have been anticipated to get well. No arrests have been made.
The NYPD ended 2024 with a 3% drop in homicides and a 7% drop in shootings citywide in comparison with final 12 months.
As of Sunday, NYPD detectives had investigated 375 homicides in 2024, 15 lower than the 12 months earlier than. Cops responded to 899 shootings in comparison with 974 in 2023.
Initially Revealed: January 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM EST
