The Thanksgiving weekend in New York City got off to a violent start leaving at least one person dead and several others injured after a succession of shootings and stabbings beginning late Wednesday and early Thursday, police said.
On Wednesday night, at around 11:30 pm, authorities confirmed that a man was shot and killed near 145th Drive and 184th Street in the Brookville section of Queens.
When police arrived at the scene, they found a 40-year-old victim unconscious and unresponsive in the driver’s seat of a 2018 Nissan Maxima. The victim had gunshot wounds to his chest.
“He must have slammed into a telephone pole after being shot,” police said.
The injured man was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
So far, no arrests have been made, and the motive for the shooting is unknown.
Around 7:45 pm Wednesday, another man was shot in the chest at Boston Road and East 173rd Street in the Bronx, cops said. He was in stable condition and recovering at St. Barnabas Hospital.
In yet another violent incident, at 1:20 am Thursday morning, a man was shot in the left leg at Sheridan Avenue and East 165th Street in the Concourse section of the Bronx and was taken to Lincoln Medical Center in critical condition, cops confirmed.
In all the shootings, no arrests have been made, and the circumstances leading to the shootings remain unknown.
Just two and half hours after the shooting on Sheridan Avenue in the Bronx, a 28-year-old woman was stabbed in the arm by another woman, on West 140th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem, in Manhattan. The victim was rushed to Harlem Hospital in stable condition. The attacker fled the scene. Police do not know whether the two women were related and the motive behind the stabbing is still unknown.
Two men were stabbed on East 7th Street and First Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan after 11 pm on Wednesday. The men, aged 24 and 35, were hanging out on the street with a group when a fight broke out between them and another man known to them.
As the argument turned violent, the suspect stabbed the younger man in the groin and the older man in the leg before fleeing the scene.
Police have yet to make any arrests in any of the tragic incidents in New York City over the weekend.