New York City’s five-day streak of no shooting victims ended with a bang with two people hit by gunfire within three hours, police said Friday.
At 10:11 p.m. Thursday, the NYPD announced on X that no one had been shot in the five boroughs since Saturday.
“For the first time in 30 years, there have been 0 shooting victims in New York City for a 5-day period,” the department noted. “This is the longest we’ve gone without a shooting victim since the beginning of the CompStat era and is a result of the brave work that the members of the NYPD do every day.”
But that streak ended five minutes after the NYPD posted the good news, officials said.
At 10:16 p.m., cops in East New York, Brooklyn were called to Linden Blvd. near New Jersey Ave., where a 34-year-old man had been shot in the leg.
The victim managed to take himself to Brookdale University Medical Center, where he was treated for a minor wound.
About three hours later, a 17-year-old boy was attacked by two men on Watson Ave. near Close Ave. in the Soundview section of the Bronx.
The teen told police that he was walking down Watson Ave. at about 1:14 a.m. when two men jumped him.
One of the suspects punched him in the face with brass knuckles, police were told. His partner pulled a gun and fired off one round, hitting the teen in the right thigh before both men ran off.
The victim managed to get a friend to take him to Lincoln Hospital, where he was being treated Friday morning.
No arrests have been made in either case, cops said.
The NYPD marked the shooting victim-free span a day after Mayor Adams announced that cops had seized more than 20,000 illegal guns during his administration.
The official tally — 20,137 since the start of 2022, including 377 so far this year — is updated daily on the NYPD website. More than 1,400 of the seized weapons were untraceable ghost guns.
“That’s 20,000 weapons that no longer can threaten the safety of New Yorkers and our neighborhoods, our families, and our children,” Adams said at a press conference Wednesday with Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch by his side. “That’s 20,000 fewer chances that a New Yorker is shot or killed.”
