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(New York, NY) — The violent start to the New Year in New York City seems unending. On Sunday night, two men were shot inside a Upper West Side bodega. Police say the bullets flew just before 8 o’clock inside the store on Amsterdam Avenue near 92nd Street. The two victims, both teenagers, got into a dispute with two men outside the store. All four went into the bodega, and that’s when one of the suspects took out a gun, striking both victims. One teen was shot in the hip, the other in the stomach. The wanted gunmen took off on foot, police are still looking for them.
On Saturday morning, a gunman shot and wounded three people in a Brooklyn restaurant. Cops say the shooter fired off the shots at El Nuevo Tipico in Cypress Hills at around 1 a.m. Police say the gunfire took place after two men began arguing. One of them then pulled out a gun and started shooting. The victim took a bullet to the hand, a woman got shot twice in the leg and another man was grazed by a bullet to the stomach. The gunman took off on foot.
On Friday night, the NYPD says a 62-year-old man stabbed a 17-year-old boy to death outside a deli in East Harlem. Saul Sanchez of Manhattan has been charged with murder. Cops were called to the corner of East 108th Street and Second Avenue shortly after 6 p.m. and found the teen and two other men suffering from knife wounds. They say 17-year-old Carlos Rivas was stabbed in the chest and stomach and later died at Harlem Hospital, while Sanchez and another man suffered non life-threatening injuries. A witness says the fight started out as an argument and then turned violent.
