Three people were fatally shot and one was stabbed to death in less than 24 hours across the Big Apple – marking a bloody start to the summer in the city.
The violence began just before 3 p.m. Wednesday, when 17-year-old Trequan Wingfield was shot in the chest outside of NYCHA’s Polo Grounds Towers at 2971 Frederick Douglass Boulevard, cops said.
Wingfield was taken to Harlem Hospital by EMS in critical condition and was declared dead shortly after, the NYPD said.
The suspect was described as a male who fled on foot southbound on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, police said. No arrests have been made.
Less than three hours later, a 40-year-old man was shot dead in the East New York section of Brooklyn, authorities said.
The victim was blasted in the back on Ashford Street near Linden Boulevard around 5:45 p.m., police said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS workers, cops said. A motive has not yet been determined.
The bloodshed continued early Thursday, when two men were shot – one fatally – in the Olinville section of The Bronx, police said.
The shots rang out around 12:30 a.m. at East 213th Street and Holland Avenue, authorities said.
Responding cops found a 34-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the right leg, cops said. He was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.
Another man, 26 – who was gravely injured with gunshot wounds to the chest and shoulder – was taken to Montefiore Medical Center by private means, police said. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The motive for the violence remains under investigation.
Hours later, a 45-year-old man was stabbed to death in Upper Manhattan.
The victim was knifed in the upper left torso at West 158th Street and Riverside Drive in Washington Heights around 5:20 a.m., police said.
A passerby found him slumped over on the ground and called the police, authorities said.
He was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside, where he was pronounced dead.
No arrests have been made, and investigators are still probing the circumstances.
A 38-year-old man was also hurt in a shooting on the grounds of NYCHA’s Walt Whitman Houses in Fort Greene around 12:40 a.m. Thursday, cops said.
On-duty cops in the area heard shots and responded to 101 North Portland Avenue, police said.
They found the victim, who had been shot in the torso and finger, police said. He was taken to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
Three male “persons of interest” have been taken into custody, cops said. They weren’t immediately charged.
In Midtown, someone fired off shots on Eighth Avenue near West 39th Street just before 2 a.m., cops said.
No one was struck, and the shooter fled, police said.
The circumstances around the incident weren’t immediately known.
