Wednesday's Fourth of July celebrations in
The New York Post reports one victim, a 33-year
old man in the Flatlands neighborhood of
Also on Wednesday, an MTA police officer was
stabbed in the eye by an unprovoked, deranged man wielding a knife at a Long
Island Railroad station in
When the day was done, a total of 17 people
were shot in
The Fourth of July shootings mirror 2011's
violent Labor Day weekend during which 67 people were shot within three days and
one bloody shootout left two cops injured and two people dead.
Mayor Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray
Kelly have repeatedly called on
Police say a woman was struck by a stray bullet
and three teens were shot a short time later during Fourth of July celebrations
in An NYPD officer was shot in the chest on the
Two people died and four were injured during
two separate shootings in northwest The holiday violence comes after a scorching
week in which 60 people were victims of gunfire. nymag.com
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