By: TJV News
Dozens of people were injured and 14 were killed in 62 shootings in New York City over the last week.
According to the New York Post, the number of shootings was an increase of 26 from the same week in 2019. And the number of murders was 10 more year-over-year.
Seventy-six people were wounded.
On Friday afternoon, a man was shot and killed while attending a vigil against gun violence. How many times have we seen reports of people being killed at “anti gun” events, peace vigils, etc?
Paul Pinkney, 46, was lighting candles for 28-year-old DeShawn Reid, who was shot and killed nearby on Ocean Avenue on Friday afternoon when Pinkney himself was gunned down, his family told The Post.
Pinkney was shot twice in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
The Post reported:
“He was loved by everybody,” Tyquasia Davis, 30, the wife of Pinkney’s nephew, said at the crime scene Sunday.
“And everybody just can’t believe this because he don’t mess with nobody. He don’t bother nobody, you know? He just drinks his beer or whatever and said ‘hello’ to everyone. Speaks to all the children. It’s just sad.”
Davis said Pinkney, known to friends as “P-Funk,” was a handyman, doing “little side jobs here and there, just trying to stay free of the coronavirus.”
“He was out here because another young man died over there so he came from the young man’s candle lighting yesterday, right there where a young man died,” she said. “So, he went to go in and light a candle for him and somebody shot him.”
Among the incidents was a shooting at Grand Central Station Saturday morning that left one person wounded. CBS reported:
The shooting happened around 10:30 a.m. on the southbound platform of the 4, 5 and 6 lines.
The NYPD said a 40-year-old man was walking along the platform when a gunman approached him and shot in the left arm. He was in stable condition at a nearby hospital, police said.
In the Bronx a man who was shot to death while sitting in a car in the Bronx Saturday night, the New York Daily News reported.
The New York City Police also released video footage showing a gunman who fired 10 rounds into an apartment from a Bronx street Saturday night. No one was injured in the shooting, according to the Daily News.
Early Saturday morning, meanwhile, a 28-year-old corrections officer was shot to death at a party in Queens.
The NYC Scanner Twitter account called the situation a “NYC warzone.”
The NYPD has posted several tweets in recent days with images of firearms it seized shooting suspects this week.
