2 separate overnight shooting in NYC leaves 2 dead and 2 injured

By Edward Era Barbacena 

Two people were killed and at least three others hurt in a spate of shootings across the city overnight.

The Big Apple bloodshed included three others injured in stabbings in Queens and on the Lower East Side, police said.

The two slayings took place in separate shootings in the Bronx and Staten Island late Friday night.

In the Bronx, shortly before midnight, a 31-year-old man was shot multiple times in the chest in front of 907 Teller Ave., near East 162nd Street, police said. The victim was pronounced dead at Lincoln Hospital. There are no arrests.

On Staten Island, at about 10:20 p.m., cops responding to a 911 call of shots fired in front of 55 Bowen St. encountered a 44-year-old man shot in the left armpit and a 28-year-old man who had been shot in the leg, authorities said.

The older man was later pronounced dead at Staten Island University Hospital North, while the younger victim was in stable condition at Richmond University Medical Center, police said. There are no arrests.

Earlier Friday night, a 17-year-old male was shot in the left arm outside Francis Lewis Boulevard and Hollis Avenue in Queens at 10:45 p.m., police said. The teen was taken to Cohen Children’s Hospital in stable condition, the NYPD said.

When bullets weren’t flying, blades were drawing blood, cops said.

In Manhattan, a 29-year-old man was critically injured after being knifed in the neck during a nasty dispute on the Lower East Side.

Cops collared a 32-year-old suspect following the melee, which broke out on Ludlow Street near Delancey Street at about 4:20 a.m. Saturday. “He’s not believed to be the stabber,” an NYPD spokesman said.  

The bloodied victim, who remained conscious, had staggered over to Stanton and Essex streets a few blocks away and flagged down police, authorities said. He was in critical condition in Bellevue Hospital Saturday, cops said. 

Joshua Medrano, a Lower East Side resident, was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and disorderly conduct, the NYPD said.

In Bayside, at 4:45 a.m., two men in their 20s were stabbed in front of Hatfields sports bar on Bell Boulevard by a third person who became enraged when one of the victims started talking to an unidentified woman, cops said.

Both men were taken to a local hospital with non life-threatening injuries, cops said. The suspect fled in a Honda Accord, The NYPD said. There are no arrests.