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Man shot in Brooklyn is first slaying of 2008
BY WILLIAM MURPHY | [email protected]
Several slayings punctured the early hours of the New Year in New York City, just as it ended the calendar year with the lowest number of homicides in four decades.
The first reported homicide of 2008 came at 2:09 a.m. in central Brooklyn, when a 26-year-old man was found fatally shot near Rockaway Avenue and Blake Avenue, police said.
In the Bronx, a 17-year-old man was stabbed twice in the stomach during what police called "a large dispute," at 3:10 a.m. at East 183rd Street and Walton Avenue. The unidentified teen was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital at 3:39 a.m.
And also in the Bronx, a 28-year-old man was shot several times in a building on Bronx Park South at 3:33 a.m. He died at St. Barnabas Hospital at 4 a.m., police said.
Police had no word late Tuesday morning of any arrests in the three killings.
The city unofficially ended 2007 with 494 homicides, though officials said some deaths during the year later could be reclassified as homicides. The 494 slayings were the lowest for any year since a more reliable record-keeping system started in 1963.
In 2006, there were 596 homicides. The city's worst year for homicides was 1990, when there were 2,224.
BY WILLIAM MURPHY | [email protected]
Several slayings punctured the early hours of the New Year in New York City, just as it ended the calendar year with the lowest number of homicides in four decades.
The first reported homicide of 2008 came at 2:09 a.m. in central Brooklyn, when a 26-year-old man was found fatally shot near Rockaway Avenue and Blake Avenue, police said.
In the Bronx, a 17-year-old man was stabbed twice in the stomach during what police called "a large dispute," at 3:10 a.m. at East 183rd Street and Walton Avenue. The unidentified teen was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital at 3:39 a.m.
And also in the Bronx, a 28-year-old man was shot several times in a building on Bronx Park South at 3:33 a.m. He died at St. Barnabas Hospital at 4 a.m., police said.
Police had no word late Tuesday morning of any arrests in the three killings.
The city unofficially ended 2007 with 494 homicides, though officials said some deaths during the year later could be reclassified as homicides. The 494 slayings were the lowest for any year since a more reliable record-keeping system started in 1963.
In 2006, there were 596 homicides. The city's worst year for homicides was 1990, when there were 2,224.