At least five shot, two killed in overnight gunplay across NYC
At least five people were shot — two fatally — as gun violence continued across the Big Apple early Tuesday, according to cops and police sources.
A 23-year-old gangbanger died after being blasted in the face inside a home on Stanley Avenue in the Tompkinsville section of Staten Island around 2:40 a.m., police said.
The circumstances of the shooting were unclear Tuesday morning, and no one has been arrested.
The victim, whose name has not been released pending family notification, is a member of the Original Stacks and Grimmy Bosses gangs, according to police sources.
In Brooklyn around 12:50 a.m., a 30-year-old man was shot in the head on Avenue D near New York Avenue in East Flatbush, cops said.
Officers found him unconscious and unresponsive, and EMS pronounced him dead at the scene.
No arrests have been made, and witnesses were described as uncooperative.
The victim’s name has not been released pending family notification.
Later in the morning in Queens, a 32-year-old man was shot once in the right shoulder as he sat in a white Ford Fusion outside the Sugardaddy’s Gentlemen’s Club near 51st Avenue in Long Island City around 4:30 a.m., cops said.
He was taken to Elmhurst Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
A 25-year-old man was shot on the right side of his chest on East 102nd Street near Avenue J in Canarsie around 3:30 a.m., police sources said.
He was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center by private means, with non-life-threatening injuries.
The gunman fled on foot.
And a 36-year-old man was shot once in the left foot around 2:30 a.m. during a dispute on Rockaway Parkway near Willmohr Street in Brownsville, police said.
He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center in stable condition.
