Crime & Safety

3 Shot Dead In NYC Weekend Violence: NYPD

Separate shootings across Brooklyn and The Bronx left two men wounded and three dead, police officials said.

Three men were shot dead in separate shootings over the weekend, police said.
Three men were shot dead in separate shootings over the weekend, police said. (Peter Senzamici/Patch)

NEW YORK CITY — Three men were shot dead and two more were wounded in a wave of weekend violence scattered across New York City, police said.

No shooters had yet been arrested as of Monday morning in the separate shootings that unfolded in Brooklyn and The Bronx, authorities said.

The first shooting was reported Saturday in Brownsville, where NYPD officers responded to a 911 call of two people shot about 11 p.m., officials said.

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Cops arrived to find Lamont Russell, 30, with several gunshot wounds to his chest, as well as a 28-year-old man who was shot in the hand, police said.

Medics rushed the men to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where doctors pronounced Russell dead, authorities said. The other man remained in stable condition.

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Just over four hours later, cops responded to another shooting in East New York, police said.

They found Anthony Haughton, 60, on the ground with a gunshot wound in his chest early Sunday, authorities said.

He too was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead, police said.

The final incident left two men shot along Ely Avenue in The Bronx, officials said.

A 29-year-old man was shot in the head, while another man, 40, suffered a gunshot to his left leg, police said.

Doctors later pronounced the younger man — who police did not immediately identify because his family had not been notified — dead at Jacobi Hospital, authorities said.

The 40-year-old man was listed in stable condition, police said.

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