NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Twelve people were shot in seven shooting over the course of nine hours across New York City. Two of the victims died.
The shootings happened between 4 p.m. Saturday and 12:30 a.m. Sunday in the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan.
Five of the victims were shot during an argument in a McDonald's parking lot in the Claremont section of the Bronx just after 9 p.m.
A 17-year-old boy, Armanis Valdez, was killed in the shooting. Three men and a woman were wounded.
The shooting scene outside the McDonald's in the Bronx.Roger Stern
The other deadly shooting was in the Fordham Heights section of the Bronx around 12:30 a.m., when a 34-year-old man was shot and killed during an argument.
Police said the victim was shot in the abdomen amid the dispute at E. 184th Street and Marion Avenue. He was taken to Saint Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
No arrests have been reported in either shooting.
In Rockaway Beach, Queens, two men shot a 30-year-old seven times as he was playing basketball, police said. He was in very critical condition at Jamaica Hospital.
There were three other shootings in the Bronx and one in front of a 7-Eleven at Eighth Avenue and W. 37th Street in midtown Manhattan. Among the wounded were three boys between 15 and 16 years old and two men, ages 22 and 41.
"Last night was tragic," Bronx community activist Sidney Flores said of the shooting outside the McDonald's. "It's a miracle that more people didn't die."
"It's ridiculous. It's crazy. We need to get these guns off the street," Flores said.
