NEW YORK (1010 WINS) – Two men were killed and multiple people were injured—including a woman grazed by a bullet in Manhattan and a man shot on a porch on Staten Island—in gun violence across the city Friday into Saturday, police said.
The first deadly shooting happened in St. Albans, Queens around 11:45 p.m. Police said 29-year-old Wayne Joseph was shot multiple times at Quencer Road and Dunkirk Street.
Officers responding to a 911 call found Joseph with gunshot wounds to his torso and right thigh. He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center but did not survive.
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Hours later in the Bronx, a 30-year-old man was shot at Avenue St. John and Fox Street in the Longwood section around 5:50 a.m., police said. The man was found lying on the ground on Avenue St. John with gunshot wounds to his back.
Police said the victim was taken to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He has not been identified.
No arrests have been reported in either deadly shooting.
Shootings in every borough Friday into Saturday also left a number of people injured, including a woman who was grazed in the neck by a bullet at a Manhattan basketball court and a man who was shot as he slept on his Staten Island porch.
Sources told the New York Post that several shooters, including two on Citi Bikes, opened fire on a group at the King Towers Court at Lenox Avenue and 113th Street in Harlem around 6 p.m., striking the 25-year-old woman, who suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
On Staten Island, a 37-year-old man was asleep on his porch near Hillside and Vanderbilt avenues in Fox Hills around 11:15 p.m. when a dark-colored sedan drove by and someone inside opened fire, police said. The man was struck in the back and upper neck but was expected to survive.
Non-fatal shootings were also reported in the Soundview and Mott Haven sections of the Bronx, as well as in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Earlier on Friday, an 18-year-old man and a 36-year-old man were killed in separate Bronx shootings and a 39-year-old man was killed in a Brooklyn shooting.
