With temperatures soaring over 90 degrees, New Yorkers faced the hottest weekend yet this yearand the most violent. In 48 hours, over four boroughs, 25 people were shot, including a 15-year-old protecting an infant and an 11-year-old paralyzed by a stray bullet.
The Daily News tallies the violent weekend, which ended with six dead and at least 19 injured, the bulk over a 24-hour period from Friday night to Saturday, when 14 people were shot.
The two days of bloodshed represented 5% of this years roughly 440 shootings. Despite the violence, that figure represents a 23% drop compared with the 574 victims shot through this time last year.
The dead are Ivan Martinez, 21, killed early Sunday morning in the Bronx; Damien Powell, 25, fatally shot in the chest on Sunday afternoon in Crown Heights; Terrance Davis, 24, who died Sunday after being shot on Friday; Antonio Wilson, 23, killed in Clinton Hill; and Damion Riley, 39, shot dead in East Flatbush. The name of the sixth victim has not yet been released.
In Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, 11-year-old Tayloni Mayzick was paralyzed when a stray bullet from a gang shooting went through her neck and into her spine. Her great-grandmother, from whom she gets her middle name, Lucille, died the next day. "It was too much for her," Tayloni's father Robert told the Post.
In the Bronx, 15-year-old Sarah Rivera was shot in the leg as she pushed a baby carriage away from the sound of gunfire. "Everybody started running, so I went to grab the carriage," she told the Daily News. The baby's fathera strangertied his shirt around her leg as a tourniquet.
"We should have more gun control, Rivera's mother said. I wish they could just make guns extinct, period."
Long Hot Weekend: 25 Shot in New York Over Just 48 Hours
The Daily News tallies the violent weekend, which ended with six dead and at least 19 injured, the bulk over a 24-hour period from Friday night to Saturday, when 14 people were shot.
The two days of bloodshed represented 5% of this years roughly 440 shootings. Despite the violence, that figure represents a 23% drop compared with the 574 victims shot through this time last year.
The dead are Ivan Martinez, 21, killed early Sunday morning in the Bronx; Damien Powell, 25, fatally shot in the chest on Sunday afternoon in Crown Heights; Terrance Davis, 24, who died Sunday after being shot on Friday; Antonio Wilson, 23, killed in Clinton Hill; and Damion Riley, 39, shot dead in East Flatbush. The name of the sixth victim has not yet been released.
In Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, 11-year-old Tayloni Mayzick was paralyzed when a stray bullet from a gang shooting went through her neck and into her spine. Her great-grandmother, from whom she gets her middle name, Lucille, died the next day. "It was too much for her," Tayloni's father Robert told the Post.
In the Bronx, 15-year-old Sarah Rivera was shot in the leg as she pushed a baby carriage away from the sound of gunfire. "Everybody started running, so I went to grab the carriage," she told the Daily News. The baby's fathera strangertied his shirt around her leg as a tourniquet.
"We should have more gun control, Rivera's mother said. I wish they could just make guns extinct, period."
Long Hot Weekend: 25 Shot in New York Over Just 48 Hours
Did u even read the bolded you quoted ?
when he found what happened to her SMH. Mind you she was not even the intended target.
for the young girl who's now paralyzed, because nikkas can never hit their intended targets, bytches
