Two men were killed and eight people wounded in a spate of shootings over a bloody six-hour span in New York City stretching into early Sunday, cops said.
The shooting, which spanned three boroughs and are not believed to be related, sparked off about 9:10 p.m. Saturday when tempers flared at a block party in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, police said.
Roberto Cuevas, 45, got into an argument with his killer, who shot him in the back during the party at Fourth Ave. and 57th St., officials said.
Medics rushed Cuevas to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where he later died. He was about a mile from home when he was shot, according to cops.
The killer got away and has not been caught.
Brooklyn saw a second fatal shooting when a 23-year-old man was shot in the left shoulder on Pine St. near Etna St. in Cypress Hills about 2:25 a.m. Sunday, police said.
Medics took him to Brookdale University Hospital but he could not be saved. His name was not immediately released.
No arrests have been made but cops are looking for two men who fled the scene on a moped.
The killings come amid a sharp drop in shootings and homicides across the city this year. As of Aug. 3, murders are down citywide by nearly 26%, with 179 slayings this year through Aug. 3 compared to 245 in the same time frame last year. Shootings are down 21%, with 422 incidents compared to 534 by this time last year.
Two more shootings in Brooklyn Sunday left four people wounded. Just before 1:20 a.m. Sunday, a man believed to be in his 20s was shot in the right arm and a 35-year-old woman was blasted in the chest and right arm on Bushwick Ave. near Jefferson St. in Bushwick, police said.
Both are expected to survive and neither were initially cooperating with investigators, cops said.
Just 10 minutes later, a 59-year-old man was shot in the chest and a 35-year-old man was shot in the arm at E. 52nd St. at Farragut Road in East Flatbush. Medics took both victims to Kings County Hospital in critical condition but both are expected to survive, police said.
In the Bronx, a 22-year-old woman was shot in the arm a 32-year-old was struck in the back on Crotona Parkway near Elsmere Place in West Farms about 12:50 a.m. Sunday.
Medics took both to St. Barnabas Hospital, where the older woman was in critical condition with life-threatening injuries. A 37-year-old man walked into the same hospital with a gunshot wound not long after and police believe he was shot in the same incident, cops said.
And in Queens, a 30-year-old woman was shot in the right side of her chest about 3:05 a.m. at Beach 17th St. by the Rockaway Beach boardwalk in Far Rockaway, cops said. Medics took her to Jamaica Hospital, where she was in stable condition.
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