NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Three men were found dead—either shot or stabbed—in vehicles across New York City over the span of 45 minutes Wednesday night.
The deaths followed a bloody Fourth of July weekend in the city that left a half-dozen people dead and dozens more wounded. From July 1 to July 4, 51 people were wounded, six of them mortally, in 36 shootings across the city, according to the NYPD. That’s compared to 27 shootings in which 32 people were wounded, seven mortally, during the same four-day period in 2021.
Wednesday night’s violence started just before 11 p.m. when a 37-year-old man was shot in the chest and leg as he sat in the passenger seat of a Jeep Grand Cherokee at Classon and Atlantic avenues in Crown Heights.
Police believe the Jeep was stopped at a red light when the shooter approached on a bicycle and fired into the SUV, striking the victim multiple times.
A 31-year-old woman behind the wheel of the Jeep tried to drive away during the shooting but struck a “stationery object” less than a block away at Classon Avenue and Pacific Street, police said.
EMS transported the man to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The woman was taken to the same hospital in stable condition for a medical evaluation.
Less than an hour later, just after 11:30 p.m., a 32-year-old man was found fatally shot in the backseat of a vehicle parked at Sutphin Boulevard and 121st Avenue in South Jamaica, Queens.
The victim had been shot once in the neck and once in the chest. He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center but did not survive.
A 28-year-old man later walked into the same hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, saying he’d been wounded in the same shooting. He was listed in stable condition.
Minutes after the Queens shooting, a 30-year-old man was found fatally stabbed inside of a vehicle in the Laconia section of the Bronx around 11:40 p.m.
Shortly before he was killed, the man had been in a dispute with another man near Schorr Place and Eastchester Road. At some point during the confrontation, the man stabbed him multiple times.
The victim got into a vehicle and tried to drive away, but he only made it about four blocks to East Gun Hill Road and Seymour Avenue, where he crashed into a pole.
Officers responding to a 911 call found him unconscious inside the vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS.
None of the victims have been identified.
No arrests have been reported amid ongoing investigations, police said.
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