The popping of fireworks this 4th of July was followed by gunshots heard across the city that left two dead and a dozen people wounded early Wednesday, cops said.
The 14 victims were hit by gunfire in 13 shootings that took place within a nine-and-a-half-hour span between 11 p.m. Tuesday and 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, according to NYPD preliminary estimates.
Two men, one from the Bronx and one from Inwood, died in the carnage, cops said.
The barrage of bloodshed comes as the city celebrated a somewhat peaceful holiday weekend, with Mayor Adams on Tuesday calling it “one of the safest in 19 years.”
Cops could not give an official shooting number Wednesday as they investigate each incident. In many cases, a victim showed up at the hospital looking for help, making it difficult to determine just when and where they were shot, a police source with knowledge of the case said.
The number of shootings and victims could increase or decrease after each incident is reviewed, the source said.
Three others were shot in the early morning hours on Independence Day, including an incident where a 13-year-old boy was hit in the ankle in Washington Heights, cops said.
The violence began at 11:20 p.m. when a 53-year-old woman walked into Long Island Jewish Hospital in Queens with a gunshot wound to the shoulder, police said. Police later determined that she was shot on 112th Road near 194th St. in St. Albans, Queens.
Within an hour, two men showed up at separate hospitals in the Bronx. One man, 34, hobbled into Westchester Square Hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg about 12:30 a.m., cops said. Then, just before 1 a.m., a 36-year-old man showed up at Montefiore Hospital with wounds to his leg and buttocks.
Both victims claimed to have been…
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