Gun violence in Manhattan breaks 25-year record

Four people were injured in three separate incidents in Manhattan during the night of May 15-16. One of them died, the other received life-threatening injuries. The number of shooting incidents in Lower Manhattan has now reached a 25-year high. NBC New York.

The first shooting took place in the East Village at the intersection of 3rd Street and Avenue D around 23:15 p.m. Sunday, May 15. Bronx resident Brandon Atkinson, 39, was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head in Bellevue.

About an hour later, a car pulled up to the curb at LaGuardia Houses on the Lower East Side and opened fire on a group of people standing outside. Two young men aged 19 and 22 were wounded in the leg and arm. Both are in stable condition at Bellevue. It is not clear if they were originally targeted by the shooter.

Then around 5 a.m. Monday, a 24-year-old man was shot in the chest at the intersection of 47th Street and Tenth Avenue in Hell's Kitchen. The cops say he went to Mount Sinai West hospital on his own. He is now in critical condition with life-threatening injuries.

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New York is facing a massive surge in violent crime. From the beginning of the year to May 8, the number of shooting incidents in the patrol district of South Manhattan (between 66th Street and the Battery) increased by 31% compared to the same period last year. Between January 1 and May 8, the number of shooting incidents in southern Manhattan reached its highest level since 1997. Of the eight NYPD patrol areas throughout the city, only South Manhattan and the Bronx have returned to late-1990s levels.