Bloody Christmas Weekend Sees 6 Killed In New York City: NYPD

NEW YORK CITY — Five people were shot dead and one fatally stabbed over a bloody Christmas weekend in New York City, according to the NYPD.

Gun violence in Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx claimed the lives of four men and a 64-year-old woman fatally shot in the head between Friday and Tuesday, police said.

A Manhattan pediatrician was found fatally stabbed in the back, buttocks, eye and palms in an East Harlem, according to police and reports.

The violence began in Queens with the death of Elgin Reynolds, 40, on Friday morning about 12:15 p.m., police said.

Reynolds tried to escape a gunman who found him on 165th Street in Jamaica, said police.

According to police, the gunman — who police describe as a man in his early 40s, standing about 6 feet tall and last seen wearing a green jacket and du-rag — fatally shot Reynolds in the leg, torso and face.

On Christmas Day, police arrested Roland Codrington, 35, an East Harlem man Commissioner Keechant Sewell said was linked to two homicides and an assault in a bar with a pit bull and a baseball bat.

Police accuse Codrington of fatally stabbing Bruce Maurice Henry — identified by the New York Post as a Manhattan pediatrician — who was found in Marcus Garvey Park Friday with stab wounds all over his body.

"The women and men of the NYPD have once again shown their resolve to bring to justice a perpetrator and stop a crime pattern," Sewell said at a press conference.

"Our hearts go out to the family and friends and loved ones of the victims who fell prey to this predator."

Three people were shot dead the day after Christmas, police said.

Two young men — ages 26 and 29 — were shot dead in The Bronx Monday just after 4 a.m. and 9 p.m., respectively, police said.

Monday's victims included Valeria Ortega, who was shot dead in broad daylight while walking to the supermarket with her son, according to police and reports.

A stray bullet hit Ortega near Dyckman Street and Vermilyea Avenue about 11:30 a.m., police said.

Police said the most recent shooting was uncovered on Sutphin Boulevard in Queens Tuesday morning just before 3 a.m. when NYPD officers found a man shot in the head in a car.