A young man of 11 years old yesterday added to the fatal figures for shootings in New York , when he was killed inside an apartment in the Bronx.
The officers who responded to a call to 911 The fatally wounded youth was discovered at the residence on Valentine Ave. off E. Burnside Ave., Mount Hope neighborhood, around 4: 05 pm, police said.
He was unconscious with a gunshot wound to the torso. Doctors rushed him to St. Barnabas Hospital but were unable to save him. His homicide was reported just hours after a woman and a man, both young, were shot in the head on the streets of Gramercy Park and the East Village.
It was a disastrous start for the month of September, although homicides have decreased this year compared to 2021, according to the latest official figures from the NYPD.
So far this year, the Bronx leads the city in homicide figures. That municipality has seen 90 murders to date, a decrease of 7.2% compared to the same period last year. Brooklyn is close behind, with 86 murders. Then 50 cases in Queens, 34 in Manhattan and 4 in Staten Island, highlighted Daily News.
The perimeter of the Police Station 13 in Midtown East Manhattan: Didn’t have any homicides this year and two happened in the last few days. Earlier in the year it was noted that almost all 77 NYPD precincts had seen increases in crime in their territories and in five of them the rate had doubled.
More recently, the number of shootings confirms the fears of experts that New York was going to experience a rise in violence this summer, both with firearms and blades. However, last week Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Adams celebrated that in front of 2021 shootings had decreased 05%, also citing an increase of 104% in seizures of illegal weapons.
No arrests have been made in any of these three homicides from yesterday. Anyone with information should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-CLUE (74782). Also through crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
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