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| 12 shot in 5 hours in NYC |
| 2014-07-09 |
The Fourth of July weekend brought the city's most concentrated explosion of gun violence this year, with 12 people shot -- three fatally -- in little more than five hours. The bloody mayhem from Saturday night through Sunday morning also marked the third consecutive weekend in which a dozen or more people were struck by bullets since the summer started. Shootings were reported in The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, where two people were slain in separate incidents. A passerby found one of those victims, Devon Powell, 24, around 5 a.m. in the gutter in front of a bus stop on Arlington Place, where dried blood still stained the sidewalk and street hours later. Powell suffered a head wound so grisly that cops couldn't tell if he'd been shot, stabbed or beaten. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #10 Kidnappings in Arizona are gang related, often armed with military level weapons brought fast and furiously across the border. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-07-09 15:19 |
| #9 What they need is some tough gun laws. |
| Posted by: KBK 2014-07-09 14:10 |
| #8 From the article: Another 21 people were hit by bullets between June 20 and 22, with two dying in shootings at barbecues in The Bronx and Brooklyn... As of June 30, shootings in the city were up 8 percent, with 521 incidents this year compared to 482 during the same period in 2013. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-07-09 13:01 |
| #7 Wannabes...pffftttttt........ |
| Posted by: Rahm Emanuel 2014-07-09 12:46 |
| #6 Few appear to accept the idea that trans-genetic changes could possibly give a human being different behavioral tendencies that might be negative or dangerous for their fellow beings? Meanwhile, apples fall close to the tree because they have obviously learned to do so. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-07-09 10:13 |
| #5 forget about getting news out of Detroit...Do you want to be the film crew sent to report? Think "Escape from New York" scenario |
| Posted by: Warthog 2014-07-09 09:48 |
| #4 Have the number of shootings increased since Rudy Giuliani was mayor? Is this gang violence? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-07-09 09:06 |
| #3 Atlanta |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-07-09 08:14 |
| #2 ..don't forget greater Miami, or Baltimore, or... |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-07-09 08:08 |
| #1 Hoping to out-shoot Chicago? And where does Detroit fit into the competition, I wonder? Whaddabout L.A.? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-07-09 07:56 |