Nearly 40 people were shot across New York City from the Fourth of July into early Sunday — including several fatalities, police sources said.
Between midnight Saturday and 6:30 a.m. Sunday, 39 people were struck by gunfire across every borough except Staten Island, with at least three people killed, sources said.
Among the incidents, a man in his 20s was fatally shot in the chest near West 111th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem around 10 a.m. Saturday, according to sources.
In Brooklyn, a 20-year-old man was shot in the chest at 12:43 a.m. Sunday in East New York, cops said.
The man, who was shot on Atkins Avenue near Pitkin Avenue, was rushed to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center but couldn’t be saved.
His identity wasn’t immediately released.
Around the same time, eight people were wounded in two separate incidents in Upper Manhattan, sources said.
Three men and a woman, ranging in age from 27 to 42, were struck when bullets flew at West 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue, sources said.
Mere minutes later and just blocks away, another four men were shot at a party at West 131st and Lenox, sources said.
Seven of the victims in those two shootings were expected to survive, while one man in the latter shooting was listed in critical condition, according to sources.
Then, at 2:40 a.m. a 23-year-old man was shot in the back on 116th Street near Morningside Park in Harlem, cops said. He was taken to St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital by private means.
He was uncooperative when interviewed by police and then died, according to an NYPD spokesman.
Investigators were canvassing for ballistic evidence and video. His name was being withheld pending family notification.
Locals said that the violence erupted from an annual Independence Day party.
“You felt safe. It was going so well,” said an attendee who witnessed the bloodshed, declining to give her name. “The only thing they were running from before was the fireworks.”
For reasons that remained unclear Sunday afternoon, a fight broke out at the party and shots rang out.
“You didn’t know where it was coming from because they were running this way and that way,” said the witness. “It’s not the time for this. We were out here minding our own business. … The boy lost his life.”
Nearly simultaneously, a 34-year-old woman was struck in the right leg by an apparent stray bullet while walking her dog on Anderson Avenue near West 164th Street in the Highbridge section of The Bronx, sources said.
She was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, and is expected to survive the wound.
At about 4:15 a.m. Sunday, two men were shot on East 39th Street near Avenue D in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, sources said, leaving one of the victims, 20, dead.
His identity was not immediately released, and no arrests were announced.
Around 6 a.m., four men and a woman were shot on Academy Street near Post Avenue in Inwood, Manhattan, sources said.
Among the victims, ranging in age from 16 to 31, three of the men were listed in critical condition at area hospitals, while the shooter remained at large, according to sources.
The July shootings come on the heels of a violent June in the city. With a total of 205 shootings during the month, it was the bloodiest June in 24 years — going back to 1996, when the NYPD logged 236 incidents, the NYPD said.
The run of shootings is in addition to at least 13 reported stabbings across the city between 4 a.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday, sources said.