A memorial on 151st Street and Broadway, where Kenny Jimenez and Francisco Mercedez were killed in a shooting
The shootings followed a familiar pattern, erupting at outdoor gatherings and corner hangouts, in pockets of New York City long plagued by weekend violence that the Police Department has struggled to control.
Six of the victims were in northern Manhattan, including two young men who were killed in front of a deli just before 3 a.m. Sunday, shot by a gunman who fired several times before speeding off in a waiting car. Earlier in a crowded East Harlem park, a 17-year-old and two 18-year-old men were wounded as bullets flew.
And at a Bronx apartment building on Sedgwick Avenue, uniformed police officers shot a man who they said was beating and stabbing his girlfriend with an eight-inch knife; both were expected to survive.
All told, at least 14 people in New York were struck by bullets overnight, adding to a tally of shooting victims that is an increase of more than 10 percent over last year, to more than 822 citywide. The increase has persisted despite efforts to tamp down potentially violent situations before they escalate.
Police outside Thomas Jefferson Park in Harlem. Three people were shot there Saturday night
There have been successes: Shootings in the 47th Precinct in the Bronx, which leads the city in killings so far this year, have subsided over the past month amid increased police attention. But there have been spikes elsewhere, including in the 73rd Precinct in Brownsville, Brooklyn, where at least 56 people have been shot so far, up from 38 reported for the same period in 2013.
At the shooting in Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem, an unidentified gunman struck the three men, who were not identified, in the legs or buttocks Saturday around 10 p.m. The police described them as affiliates of a local crew, though it remained unclear if the sorts of turf rivalries long a problem in that corner of Upper Manhattan had sparked the violence.
Hours later, Kenny Jimenez, 21, and Francisco Mercedez, 29, were standing with another man outside a deli at 151st Street and Broadway when a hooded man pulled a handgun and opened fire, the police said. A bullet struck Mr. Jimenez in the neck, killing him only steps from his apartment building. Another hit Mr. Mercedez’s chest; he died about an hour later at Harlem Hospital, the police said. The third man, yet to be located by the police, was unharmed.
Around the same time, three men — ages 19, 24 and 29 — were shot in the Mill Brook Houses in the Port Morris section of the Bronx, the police said. All survived; none were talking to detectives.
And in Jamaica, Queens, a gunman emptied at least 21 rounds after an early morning argument in front of a house on 118th Avenue. The gunfire struck four people between the ages of 19 and 27, with one man in critical condition, the police said.
In West Harlem, the police reported that a 20-year-old man was shot in the right arm while in a car with three other people about 1:20 a.m. on Sunday.
There were no arrests in any of the shootings by Sunday afternoon, the police said, apart from the 34-year-old Bronx man who was expected to be charged in the knife attack on his girlfriend, 32.
The police said the man, who had yet to be identified pending charges, had been arrested for assaulting the woman last March but that they were back living together.
The police said the man, who had yet to be identified pending charges, had been arrested for assaulting the woman last March but that they were back living together.
