Warm weather leads to shootings across New York, leaving two dead

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From Katherine Donlevy

During the night from Saturday to Sunday, gunfire was heard throughout New York City – coinciding with a noticeable rise in summer temperatures.

According to the New York Police Department, six people were hit by bullets in four shootings at nightfall, leaving two of the victims dead.

The deadliest explosion occurred at 10:30 p.m. in a house in South Richmond Hill, Queens.

Police found a 52-year-old woman with a gunshot wound and a 27-year-old man with numerous gunshot wounds to his upper body in the house on the corner of 95th Street and 11th Avenue, police said.

Another man, 33, was found a mile away with a gunshot wound to the head and a gun next to his body.

The woman was taken to hospital in stable condition, but the men were pronounced dead at the scene. Police were initially unable to say whether the 33-year-old man could have been the shooter.

But the bloody night had already begun hours earlier in East Flatbush.

A 15-year-old boy was shot in the left arm in front of a residential building around 5:30 p.m., police said.

Just a few miles away in Brownsville, a 58-year-old man was shot in the left ankle at the Marcus Garvey House shortly before 8:45 p.m., the NYPD reported.

Both were taken to nearby hospitals in stable condition.

Another teenager was shot in the left elbow shortly before 7:30 p.m. at the corner of West 135th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem, police said.

The 19-year-old victim is in stable condition and a male suspect was taken into custody – the only one that night.

All four shootings remain under investigation.