A gunman shot and wounded three people at a Bronx cookout Monday, less than 24 hours after a similar incident in which two men were killed and another was wounded in Upper Manhattan.
As a group of people enjoyed the party on E. 221st St. near Bronxwood Ave. in Williamsbridge around 6 p.m, a gunman stepped up and sprayed the crowd with at least 10 bullets, police sources said.
When cops arrived, they discovered a 27-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the right hand and a 21-year-old man suffering from a shot to the back and left armpit, cops said.
Medics took the victims to Jacobi Hospital, where they are expected to survive.
A short time later, a 33-year-old man walked into the same hospital after being shot twice in the right leg in the same incident, police said.
The older victim was also expected to recover.
A superintendent in the neighborhood watched as the younger victims were loaded into an ambulance.
“There’s always drama in that building,” Noel Martinez told the Daily News. “There’s always stabbings and shootouts, especially in the summer.”
It was the second day of tragedy in a row for the city.
Around 11:40 p.m. Sunday, men ages 44 and 45 were killed when a gunman in a black ski mask opened fire from across the street at W. 207th St. and Tenth Ave. in Inwood, hitting the victims outside Blue Sky Smoke Shop.
The younger man, identified by a friend as James Michael, was shot in the face and rushed by medics to Harlem Hospital, but he could not be saved. The shooter’s other target died at New York-Presbyterian Allen Hospital minutes later, cops said.
An uninvolved 36-year-old man chatting on the phone nearby was also hit when the stray bullet grazed his knee.
Police have made no arrests in either shooting.
