1 dead, 3 injured in spate of overnight NYC stabbings and shootings
A Brooklyn man was killed in Crown Heights and three other people were hurt in two separate shootings in Harlem and Brooklyn early Saturday, cops said.
Police responding to an assault in Crown Heights around 1:43 a.m. found Kerwin Cox, 35, lying on the sidewalk on Franklin Avenue near Lincoln Place. He had been stabbed in the chest.
Cox, who lived in the Gowanus Houses in South Brooklyn, was pronounced dead after being rushed to Interfaith Hospital. The investigation is ongoing.
About 45 minutes earlier, at about 1 a.m., a 26-year-old man was shot around at 760 Eldert Lane in Brooklyn after a fight with another male, police said. The victim was taken to the hospital where he is expected to survive.
In Harlem, a 48-year-old man was shot in the left leg and a 50-year-old woman was shot in the right leg at 1:24 a.m., cops said.
The incident unfolded in front of 2569 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd., where an unidentified man opened fire at the two, cops said. The suspect, described as 6 feet 2 and wearing a beige sweater, fled. The victims were taken to nearby hospitals.
