New York streets have been a ruckus all weekend long. In only a span of eight hours, 7 New Yorkers have been murdered and another 21 have been, shot, stabbed,etc. Hit the jump for the details on all of the tragedies.
Steph Bassanini
The carnage began around sundown Friday on a hot summer’s night, and continued until the sun rose Saturday morning.
Across barely eight hours, at least seven New Yorkers were murdered and another 21 shot, stabbed or slashed across the city — with only three suspects arrested before the blood stopped flowing.
FRIDAY
9 p.m.: Two Manhattan women, ages 19 and 28, slashed by a teen in the Washington Houses at E. 102nd St. and Third Ave.
11:13 p.m.: Mohammed Gebeli, 65, found mortally wounded with a single gunshot wound to the neck inside a Bay Ridge business at Valentino Fashion on Fifth Ave.
10:54 p.m.: A Brooklyn mother calls police to say she killed her 9-year-old son and tried to kill herself. The boy is found dead inside at 347 Marcus Garvey Blvd., the mother survived.
SATURDAY
12:05 a.m.: A 17-year-old boy stabbed five times — four in the back — by a suspect who flees from 21st St. and 37th Ave in Queens.
12:58 a.m.: Two victims shot — one in the chest, one in the leg — inside the Van Dyke Houses in Brooklyn.
3:39 a.m.: Three people shot and wounded at 149 Richards St. inside the Red Hook Houses.
3:40 a.m.: A 24-year-old man shot multiple times in the chest and a 21-year-old woman once in the arm at the corner of Seaview and Remsen Aves. in Brooklyn.
4:40 a.m.: A 25-year-old man stabbed to death by a female companion inside his third-floor Bronx apartment at 578 E. 141st St.
5:02 a.m.: Two gunshot victims hospitalized after a shooting at 270 E. Burnside Ave. in the Bronx.
5:06 a.m.: Three men killed and a fourth injured in a hail of 63 bullets fired from an AK-47. The killings occurred outside 185-4 144th St. in Queens.
5:30 a.m.: A brawl outside South Bronx jiggle joint Club Eleven leaves two men shot and six more slashed in the face and back at 1152 Randall Ave.
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