A 23-year-old girl was killed in a dramatic crash on Staten Island, a male body was found inside a burned-out car in Queens, and four men were wounded in shooting and stabbing incidents in Manhattan and the Bronx during another violent early-morning night. weekend around NYC.
An unidentified individual has been found burned to death following a mysterious car fire in Queens. The body was found after police and FDNY responded to a report at the intersection of Mott Avenue and Bay 25th Street in Far Rockaway shortly before 2:40 a.m.
After the FDNY extinguished the fire, the body of the unidentified individual was discovered in the driver’s seat of the vehicle. The city medical examiner’s office will determine the cause of death. At the moment the make of the car was not detailed nor was there any more information about the victim.
Later, at around 4:45 am, a 23-year-old woman was killed in a dramatic one-car accident on Staten Island that left the vehicle cut in two lengthwise. The 30-year-old driver was arrested after the deadly episode on suspicion that he was drunk. Charges against him were pending, he said. Daily News.
The impact left a dramatic, bloody and rubble-strewn scene in front of 2545 Hylan Blvd., in the New Dorp neighborhood, he described. New York Post. The unidentified victim died from injuries sustained after being thrown from the passenger seat of the white Dodge sedan.
The driver was going south when for unspecified reasons he lost control of the vehicle and collided with a “barrier.” “It appears the vehicle struck a utility pole,” an NYPD spokesperson said.
In addition, a 34-year-old passenger was shot twice during an argument aboard a subway train in Manhattan early this morning, hours after Mayor Eric Adams and Governor Kathy Hochul proclaimed that crime had dropped in the last three months in the chaotic New York subway.
Also earlier this morning three people were stabbed during an altercation in the Bronx around 6:10 am The attack occurred during a possible “alcohol related” incident outside Allerton Avenue and Olinville Avenue in Allerton, police said.
One victim was stabbed in the leg, another in the chest, and a third in the arm. The trio were transported to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition, authorities reported.