At least four people were shot, one fatally, as a weekend of violence continued in The Big Apple late Saturday, police and sources said.
There have been at least 20 shootings or stabbings in all five of the city’s boroughs in just the last two days causing at least three deaths.
A man was fatally shot at a Harlem smoke shop near the busy intersection at 125th Street and Fifth Avenue shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday night, police and sources said.
Police sources said the man was declared dead at the scene.
Just blocks away at the same time, a female was shot near 125th Street and 2nd Avenue, according to police.
In the Bronx, a man was shot near 55 E. 196th St. in the Jerome Park neighborhood around 9:40 p.m., cops said.
Another man was shot in Staten Island at 121 Norway Avenue, police sources said.
Additionally, a 29-year-old man was slashed in the neck in Brooklyn, cops said.
According to police, the victim was stabbed at 3202 Church Street in East Flatbush around 9:38 p.m.
He was transported to King’s County Hospital in grave condition.
The suspect, a male dressed in all black, fled the scene on foot, police said.
Over a 15 hour period from Friday afternoon and early Saturday morning, two people were killed and 13 others were shot or slashed across four boroughs.