NYC’s 5-day streak of no shootings — longest in 30 years — ends in Bronx, Brooklyn gunplay

New York City’s five-day streak of nary shooting victims ended with a bang with 2 radical deed by gunfire wrong 3 hours, constabulary said Friday.

At 10:11 p.m. Thursday, the NYPD announced connected X that nary 1 had been changeable successful the 5 boroughs since Saturday.

“For the archetypal clip successful 30 years, determination person been 0 shooting victims successful New York City for a 5-day period,” the section noted. “This is the longest we’ve gone without a shooting unfortunate since the opening of the CompStat epoch and is simply a effect of the brave enactment that the members of the NYPD bash each day.”

But that streak ended 5 minutes aft the NYPD posted the bully news, officials said.

At 10:16 p.m., cops successful East New York, Brooklyn were called to Linden Blvd. adjacent New Jersey Ave., wherever a 34-year-old antheral had been changeable successful the leg.

The unfortunate managed to instrumentality himself to Brookdale University Medical Center, wherever helium was treated for a insignificant wound.

About 3 hours later, a 17-year-old lad was attacked by 2 men connected Watson Ave. adjacent Close Ave. successful the Soundview conception of the Bronx.

The teen told constabulary that helium was walking down Watson Ave. astatine astir 1:14 a.m. erstwhile 2 men jumped him.

One of the suspects punched him successful the look with brass knuckles, constabulary were told. His spouse pulled a weapon and fired disconnected 1 round, hitting the teen successful the close thigh earlier some men ran off.

The unfortunate managed to get a person to instrumentality him to Lincoln Hospital, wherever helium was being treated Friday morning.

No arrests person been made successful either case, cops said.

The NYPD marked the shooting victim-free span a time aft Mayor Adams announced that cops had seized much than 20,000 amerciable guns during his administration.

The authoritative tally — 20,137 since the commencement of 2022, including 377 truthful acold this twelvemonth — is updated regular connected the NYPD website. More than 1,400 of the seized weapons were untraceable shade guns.

“That’s 20,000 weapons that nary longer tin endanger the information of New Yorkers and our neighborhoods, our families, and our children,” Adams said astatine a property league Wednesday with Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch by his side. “That’s 20,000 less chances that a New Yorker is changeable oregon killed.”