This past weekend was notable for a number of shootings that left many injured and at least three dead.
In Harlem, police have been looking for any links in three shootings that occurred between 10PM and 11PM Saturday night. Two 22-year-olds were shot at Lenox and 125th, a 17-year-old was shot at Lenox and 137th and a 15-year-old was shot on Lenox (at a pizzeria) between 125th and 126th. Then just two hours later, a 21-year-old and 26-year-old were shot at 124th and Seventh Avenue by an 18-year-old Emmanuel Cobb. Apparently Cobb and his friends had gotten into an argument with group of men and Cobb fired at two men not even involved in the fight.
In Brooklyn and Queens, fights turned deadly. A 40-year-old man was shot in South Jamaica (176th Street and 110 Avenue) early Sunday morning during an argument. A relative told the Daily News Dwayne King was "killed after a man who was fighting over a woman with a young relative of King's pulled a gun." and around noon on Sunday, Erik Speights was killed in the Farragut Houses near the Brooklyn Navy Yard; relatives think that Speights and the gunman had an argument in a deli when they bumped into each other.
To follow up on the early Saturday morning shooting that later involved the police, a NYC Transit worker was shot in Harlem at Fifth Avenue near 110th Street. Police say that an argument occurred outside a restaurant, and a gunman Daniel Israel shot at 26-year-old train conductor Warren Dandridge (pictured) and two friends. Israel was still firing when two police officers arrived; Israel fired his gun as he ran away and the cops fired back at Israel, wounding him. Dandridge was pronounced dead at St. Luke's. Police are investigating the motive of the shooting as well as whether Israel was firing at police. NYC Transit President Howard Roberts Jr. said about Dandridge's death, "Warren's death is a senseless tragedy, a further example of the deadly toll illegal guns have exacted on our city."
Here are the latest NYPD CompStat figures (PDF): Murders are down 10% year-to-date versus 2006; felony assault is down 1% versus last year.
