Nine people were shot in six incidents across the city Monday and Tuesday — including a grandmother hit in the face, a man killed in The Bronx, and a woman left clinging to life on Staten Island, according to cops.
The fatal shooting happened around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday on East 194 Street near Marion Avenue in the Fordham Manor section of the Bronx, authorities said.
Dashan Carver, 36, of West Farms, was shot in the torso and taken to St. Barnabas Hospital where he was pronounced dead, cops said.
His identity was not immediately released pending family notification, and the motive for the slaying was not immediately clear.
On Monday alone, six people were struck in four separate incidents, according to preliminary numbers released by police.
In the most recent, a 32-year-old man was blasted in the left cheek at the corner of Carroll and Ford streets in Crown Heights around 8:30 p.m., authorities said.
Someone inside a gray, four-door sedan fired a .40-caliber weapon at a small crowd, striking the victim, according to police sources.
He was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
About 90 minutes earlier, a 52-year-old woman, described as an innocent bystander, was left clinging to life after a drive-by shooting in the lobby of a building Park Hill Avenue near Sobel Court on Staten Island, cops said. She was with her family, including her son and daughter, at the time, cops said.
She was taken to Staten Island University Hospital North in critical condition.
“One of the bullets penetrated both lobby door windows and struck our victim in the head,” Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said Tuesday. “Currently our victim is on life support, no brain activity.”
“This is definitely looking like a gang-motivated shooting,” Harrison said.
He said investigators found video of a white Kia Sorento that was used in the shooting. Police sources said the video showed the flash from the bullet being fired.
Investigators are looking to question three men believed to be gang members or associates in connection to the incident, the sources said.
In a 1010 WINS interview Tuesday morning, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said the area is “plagued by some gang activity.”
“This is a terrible incident where you have a woman in a lobby of a building who is shot in the head and is really in grave condition this morning,” he said. “This is an area where…we have a couple other shooting incidents, one closed with an arrest. One actually was someone who shot themselves, and this [was] the third.”
“Last night an innocent bystander was shot in the lobby of 225 Parkhill Ave !!” the NYPD’s 120th Precinct tweeted Tuesday morning. “If anyone has information leading to the arrest of the individuals responsible! We can’t allow this in OUR community!”
About 45 minutes earlier, a 24-year-old man was hit once in the left foot on East 166th Street near Sheridan Avenue in the Concourse Village section of the Bronx, according to police sources.
He was taken to Lincoln Medical Center by private means, with non-life-threatening injuries.
And three people — including a teen — were shot just outside a subway station at East 170th Street and Grand Concourse around 3:25 p.m. Monday, officials said.
A 16-year-old was struck in the left leg, a 22-year-old took a bullet to the left shoulder and a 23-year-old was shot in the right leg, authorities said. The 22-year-old was taken to NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln and the other two victims were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, cops said. They were all expected to survive.
Only one person fell victim to gun violence on Monday’s date in 2019, which was a Saturday.
The violence comes as the city continues to see a surge in shootings.
“It’s continued from what we’ve seen since really May, where we see north of 35 percent on the homicides, and we’re close to a 100 percent increase on shootings — just about double this year,” Shea said on 1010 WINS.
“The officers are out there pulling the guns off the street every day. We just need to recalibrate and get some of these very dangerous people that will not listen and put guns down, to get them off the street.”