New York City is starting 2025 with two back-to-back killings within six hours of the ball dropping in Times Square.
As police cleared out Times Square so the city Department of Sanitation could sweep up all the New Year’s confetti, cops were called to W. 137th St. and Lenox Ave. in Harlem, where they found a man sprawled out on the ground with a slash wound to his neck about 4:20 a.m. Wednesday.
Medics rushed the victim to Harlem Hospital but he couldn’t be saved. Cops are still working to identify the man.
An hour later two men were shot, one fatally, in the Bronx, police said.
Gunshots rang out near the corner of E. 170th St. and Teller Ave. about 5:20 a.m. When first responders arrived, they found a 23-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the neck and a 46-year-old man who had been shot in both legs.
Both men were rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where the older man died, cops said. His name was not immediately released as cops tracked down relatives.
No arrests have been made in either case.
Earlier in the evening, in the last few hours of 2024, two men were shot and two others pistol-whipped during a crazed clash in Canarsie, Brooklyn, cops said.
A 23-year-old man was shot in the head and right foot and a 62-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the gut during the 7:15 p.m. shooting on E. 105th St. near Flatlands 2nd St., cops said. The gunman also struck two other men, 20 and 25, with his handgun before running off.
All four men were taken to Brookdale University Hospital, where there were expected to recover. No arrests have been made.
The NYPD ended 2024 with a 3% drop in homicides and a 7% drop in shootings citywide compared to last year.
As of Sunday, NYPD detectives had investigated 375 homicides in 2024, 15 less than the year before. Cops responded to 899 shootings compared to 974 in 2023.
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