Gunfire erupted today near the massive West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn — not far from where Mayor Bloomberg was marching — as the entire city reeled from a epidemic of shootings over the past two days.
By noon today, a total of 46 people had been shot in the city since Saturday morning, authorities said.
While Mayor Marched, Shots Fired at the Parade
Gunfire erupted today near the massive West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn — not far from where Mayor Bloomberg was marching — as the entire city reeled from a epidemic of shootings over the past two days.
By noon today, a total of 46 people had been shot in the city since Saturday morning, authorities said.
At just before noon, a gunman fired into the air several blocks away from the start of the West Indian Day Parade route in Crown Heights before hopping into a cab and fleeing.
Bloomberg, who has decried the recent spate of gun violence, had just started marching.
Witnesses said the unidentified gunman got out of the car at E. 94th and Winthrop streets, and then ran off after tossing his gun. Cops caught him down the street after Macing him.
Police then washed the Mace out of his eyes with a carton of milk.
The frightening incident came as people around New York City continued being shot in a frenzy that began early Saturday morning.
Twenty five people had been shot as of 6 a.m. Sunday — including three kids at a house party-turned-shooting gallery in The Bronx early Sunday.
By early Monday morning, seven more people were shot in four separate incidents in Brooklyn — one of them fatally.
By noon, another seven people had been shot — bringing the shocking toll to 46 people injured by gunfire since Saturday morning.
In one incident today Tyrief Gary, 18, was fatally shot to the chest at 12:45 a.m. at 109 E. 54th Street in Brooklyn. Three others were shot during the same incident, all of whom were in stable condition at Kings County Hospital.
Police sources believe that three of the shootings this morning are connected to the pre-dawn festivities leading up to today’s West Indian Day parade.
The traditional celebration, known as J’ouvert, has been the scene of numerous shootings in the past, although cops have had it under control in recent years.
Separately, another man was shot in the chest today at 4:24 a.m. at Linden Blvd and Nostrand Avenue. He was in critical condition at Kings County Hospital
At 6 a.m., a man was shot in the leg in a McDonald’s at 57 Empire Blvd in Brooklyn, and was in stable condition at the same hospital.
At 11:48 a.m., a 41-year-old man was shot at 7th Avenue and W. 127th St. in Manhattan and taken to Harlem Hospital, where his condition was unknown. A 50-year-old man was in custody and being questioned.
Calling the chilling violence “just unconscionable,” Bloomberg demanded that the feds step up their efforts to get illegal weapons off the streets.
“We just cannot continue to have these guns in the hands of kids who don’t understand the value of human life,” he said.
The crime wave mirrored the city’s drug-fueled epidemic of violence in the 1980s and ’90s, police sources said.
“Last night was unbelievable,” one source said yesterday. “I can’t remember a couple of hours like these since the days of crack.”
A total of eight people alone were shot at 3:40 a.m. at the out-of-control house party on East 221st Street in The Bronx Sunday, authorities said.
The violence erupted after one man crashed the gig and then got into an argument with another male partygoer, sources said. Each opened fire on the other, spraying the panicked crowd with at least 21 bullets.
“I heard three shots, then a bunch more,” said a neighbor who asked that her name be withheld. “Then I heard people going over the fence and women screaming.”
Sabine Walters, 48 — whose daughter threw the “liquor barbecue” bash and whose 11-year-old son, Shaquan, was hit in the right calf by a bullet — said, “I looked around, screaming, ‘Where’s my son? Where’s my son?’ ”
Shaquan, his leg wrapped in white gauze, looked terrified as he whimpered to a reporter from his bed at Jacobi Hospital, “My foot hurts.”
Police apprehended one unidentified man suspected in the shooting, and were questioning him today.
They said they still are searching for 17-year-old Oneil DaSilva, of Mount Vernon, in connection with the shooting. His rap sheet includes nine arrests for attempted murder, third-degree assault and burglary.
The other two wounded kids were a 13-year-old girl hit in the left thigh and a 14-year-old girl shot in the back. Both were in stable condition last night.
Five men were also shot at the party. A 24-year-old victim, shot twice in the chest, was in critical condition.
The most gravely injured victim in the other shootings was a man shot on East 93rd Street in Brooklyn. He later died.
not in CH
Too much curry chicken will make you do strange things.
Leah
How’s that gun control working out for you Bloomberg? Why not come down South where our citizens are ARMED.
Crown st
Does anyone know what happened corner montgomery and Troy? Lots of police activity as of 9 pm.
If the people act this way...
If this is what the parade brings with it why don’t they cancel it.
There was a major incident at Schenectady and Montgomery half an hour ago.
SL
some of this is from MOVIES, violence in books and media.
they don’t have a stable life at their home, and the violence in movies express their turbulent lives. horrific way to live. they have a tragic culture.
someone got shot on my block
yeah someone just shot someone on montgomery st between albany and troy ave
Guliani
It’s time to get Guliani back!
shlaime
Montgomery and troy was a stabbing
Cash for Guns
Guliani ran all kinds of cash for guns programs. He even ran a toys for guns program going into December when everyone needs gifts for their kids.
Bloomberg is an idiot
Instead of taking responsibility for his incompetent police force and their lack of control on street thugs he blames federal gun control laws. Mr. Bloomberg – our rights to guns (as Americans) came long before you and your administration. Communities with higher rates of licensed LEGALLY carrying gun owners have LOWER crime rates. That is a fact. A statistic that cannot be washed away by any politician or their agenda. Maybe the reason criminals shoot guns all over the place in NYC is because they know that they can get away with it. I do not live in NYC and I challenge any of these guys to come shoot up in the air in my neighborhood. They would never do it because it would be the last thing they did. My neighborhood, like so many in the US, is a safe place because many people here exercise their rights to own and carry weapons. And guess what? For as long as I can remember not a SINGLE person has ever been shot in my neighborhood. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. And idiotic politicians like Bloomberg only help them. Easy to talk with an ARMED private security team protecting you all day isn’t it? If you hate guns so much let us see your private security lay down their weapons whenever they are inside NYC. What’s good for the gander should be good for the goose.
Sam
Stop the parade! its long overdue…. at least move it out of a residential area and have metal detectors at the entrance…
ch resident
y dont they just cut out labor day then they can cut the crime level for the year???????????????
Canceled
cancel the parade and save lots of tax money. we don’t need this madness.
Greg
Man I don’t miss living in ny
DeClasse- Intellectual
Bloomberg call for feds to do more is a complete admitence of his total incompetence as Mayor. No matter how many gun laws that Obama passes and no matter how many registrations, it will be useless because the those who commit crimes are not going to register their guns and weapons. The only way to to stop cuddling these crooks and throw them into the slammer. In the old days they used to hang pirates as soon as they cought them, now they cuddle them and look what has occurred. This whole mess is Bloomberg’s fgailure to prevent the violence even before it starts.Bloomberg is a hyprocrite as well, he calls for removal of illegal guns but his agenda does not really do that and as a result we have this in Crown heights making a lovely place not to live.
CANCEL THE PARADE
We really have gotten to the point that I think they AHOULD and they MUST cancel the parade. Is NOT working to have everyone terrorized the whole labor day when everyone gets so wild. Pls CANCEL the parade.It is not Lag Baomer and we behave. ;pls!!!
not in CH
They just have to stop eating that curry chicken it drives people crazy.
lets work to stop the violence now
Anyone from the CHJCC reading this? We need to get a petition going now, signd by all the Jews and the majority of the caribeans and blacks and chinese who are law-abideing snd anti-violence. We probably can’t stop the parade, but we must at least insist on “new years eve ball drop security.” no one comes in without being searched (with the lack of clothing that shouldn’t be too hard. Anyone caught with a weapon gets locked up in a correatioms bus and left there for 3 days until they can be processed and bussed to prisons across the country (because NY can’t hold all of them!)
Dovid
The problem is if they cancelled the parade we all know Bloomberg would be called a racist and there would be riots. We do not need another Crown Heights progroms. And you know if it were Bloomberg that did that we would be targeted since Bloomberg is a yid.
enough
Elevate the parade- every ethnic group gets 5th Ave.for its parade. It’s PC. Give them 5th Ave. Let the whole city see what we have to live through