3 killed, 4 others shot as violence soars in Big Apple overnight on Father’s Day: cops
Three people were killed and four others shot in five separate incidents as gun violence soared across the Big Apple overnight on Father’s Day, authorities said.
A 44-year-old man was shot in the face, a 40-year-old man blasted in the chest and a 37-year-old man struck in the leg in a single shooting at West 207th Street and 10th Avenue in Inwood around 11:40 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
The older two men were each hospitalized, initially in critical condition, but later succumbed to their injuries, police said.
The youngest man was hospitalized in stable condition.
The motive for the deadly violence was not immediately known.
Another man was killed about 35 minutes earlier on Ralph Avenue near Chauncey Street on the grounds of NYCHA’s Brevoort Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, cops said.
Tyreek Ogarro, 32, was struck multiple times in the torso when shots rang out around 11:05 p.m., police said.
He was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The motive for that shooting also remains unclear.
Hours earlier, a 29-year-old man was shot around 8:45 p.m. outside a church in the Claremont Village section of the Bronx, cops said.
The victim took a bullet to the torso in front of the Iglesia Pentecostal Cristo La Unica Esperanza on East 169th Street near Grant Avenue, cops said.
He was taken by private means to BronxCare Health System, where he was listed in stable condition.
Another person was shot on the grounds of NYCHA’s South Beach Houses on Norway Avenue near Kramer Street in the Arrochar section of Staten Island around 1 a.m. Monday, police said.
The victim, whose gender and age were not immediately known, was taken to Staten Island University Hospital North with non-life-threatening injuries.
In another early-morning act of violence, a man was shot just outside the W & Fam Deli Grocery on Flatbush Avenue near East 31st Street around 3:10 a.m., authorities said.
The victim was struck in the upper left side of the stomach – and the bullet flew out through his lower back, cops said.
The wounded man stumbled his way toward the Flatbush Avenue-Brooklyn College subway station, where another person found him lying on the staircase and called 911, police said.
He was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center, where he was listed in stable condition.
No arrests have been made in any of the incidents.
