Four people were murdered – and 10 others shot or stabbed – during a nine-hour period that ended early yesterday, cops said.
A police spokesman said the slayings, recorded from 11 p.m. Friday through 5:40 a.m. yesterday, were not part of any pattern, but rather a statistical quirk.
But the sudden burst of deadly violence reflects a 6.4 percent surge in killings through Aug. 29 – and signals further disturbing evidence of a continuing upward trend in this year’s homicide rate.
Last year, there were 629 murders in the Big Apple. As of Aug. 29, there were 448 slayings, compared with 421 last year.
In the first of the four killings, an unidentified 24-year-old man was shot to death in The Bronx.
Also in The Bronx, Lonni Daughtery, 22, was shot in the chest and later died of his wounds. There was no motive or suspect, cops said.
In the East New York section of Brooklyn, a 30-year-old superintendent was found stabbed to death inside his basement apartment.
And in the Jamaica section of Queens, an unidentified man was found dead, lying face-up in the street. He had been shot in the head, cops said.