Four persons, including a 16-year-old boy, have been killed, and 12 others wounded in a separate shooting incident that happened in the New York City of the United States (US) on Monday, June 19, 2023.
A 56-year-old man, Kevin Roberts was also found dead in The Bronx, a borough of New York City.
US police investigators discovered the man with multiple gunshot wounds outside of an apartment building at around 11 p.m. on the same Monday.
The motive of the shooting is unknown, and US police are looking into whether the 16-year-old was the intended target as the shooting happened while the boy was standing across the street from where he lived on Marcus Garvey Boulevard just before evening.
In the Bronx, there was another deadly shooting that claimed the life of a 27-year-old man, who was fatally struck around 2:30 p.m. on Monday, June 19. Officials found the victim with a gunshot wound to the head.
The circumstances surrounding the shooting are unknown while arrest has yet to be made as of press time.
Also in Manhattan, United States (US), three people were shot, and one was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Gunfire also ripped through Staten Island, where two people were shot near Victory Boulevard and S Greenleaf Ave on the evening of the same Monday. Those victims, an 18-year-old male, and a 19-year-old female, are expected to survive. The suspects are described as four males who fled the scene in a vehicle.
An investigation into each of these separate incidents has been on with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) investigating exactly what led up to them.
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