Gun Free Zone Target Rich Environment working as intended
The Fourth of July weekend brought the city's most concentrated explosion of gun violence this year, with 12 people shot -- three fatally -- in little more than five hours.
The bloody mayhem from Saturday night through Sunday morning also marked the third consecutive weekend in which a dozen or more people were struck by bullets since the summer started.
Shootings were reported in The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, where two people were slain in separate incidents.
A passerby found one of those victims, Devon Powell, 24, around 5 a.m. in the gutter in front of a bus stop on Arlington Place, where dried blood still stained the sidewalk and street hours later.
Powell suffered a head wound so grisly that cops couldn't tell if he'd been shot, stabbed or beaten. |