According to NYPD statistics, the number of gunplay incidents from Friday to Sunday increased by 60% over the previous year. In comparison to this year’s Fourth of July, there were just 13 shootings in the city in 2021. In a drive-by gunshot in the fashionable shopping neighborhood of SoHo, the boyfriend of an NYPD officer was wounded, and he was taken to the hospital.
A 62-year-old man was shot dead in the chest in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx; two people were slain in a bodega shooting in East New York, Brooklyn; and two men and a woman were injured in a shooting at a barbeque in Jamaica, Queens.
Surveillance footage captured the heinous act as bystanders rushed to intervene.
The suspect appeared to be holding the woman by the hair when the group rushed to help before calmly walking to his silver BMW.
Before taking off, the suspect paused for a few seconds as an angry bystander kicked his car and many gathered around.
Before carrying out the horrifying crime, it seemed as though the suspect had stopped in traffic behind another vehicle. The scene is captured on camera as another vehicle and a bus halt behind the suspect’s vehicle.
The suspect fled the scene after striking the automobile that was still stopped in front of him, but he was gone when police arrived.
In order to identify the suspect and car in the Bronx attack, police are asking for the public’s help.
Call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS if you have any information on the event.
A $3500 reward is being offered for information that will lead to the suspect.
Attacks in New York City are starting to pick up after a worker at a store in Harlem was attacked there on July 1. Austin Simon, 35, attacked Jose Alba, 62, while he was at work after Simon’s girlfriend’s credit card had been denied when he tried to buy a bag of chips.
According to Alba’s relatives, when she demanded the bag of chips from Alba, she was forced to take a knife out of her handbag and then contact Simon for assistance.
Simon was shown on camera storming inside the business, standing over Alba, and then starting to attack him.
Simon is then stabbed in the neck and chest by Alba using a box cutting knife. He eventually passed away from his wounds at a nearby hospital.
Alba was arrested for murder and booked at Rikers Island for nearly a week before posting bail.
The former bodega worker is stuck wearing an ankle monitor and is barred from leaving New York City. 
Many people contend that when Alba was attacked, he was only acting in self-defense.
An employee at Alba’s claims that the bodega worker once had a pistol held to his head.
He didn’t know if his own life would be in danger when Simon assaulted him.
He never wanted any issues, a store employee claimed.
Although homicides and shootings have dipped in New York City over the last six months since last year, the Independence Day weekend was particularly violent.
Shootings in June were down a quarter from last year and murders for the month plunged 31 percent.
According to NYPD statistics, the number of gunplay incidents from Friday to Sunday increased by 60% over the previous year. In comparison to this year’s Fourth of July, there were just 13 shootings in the city in 2021. In a drive-by gunshot in the fashionable shopping neighborhood of SoHo, the boyfriend of an NYPD officer was wounded, and he was taken to the hospital.
Other victims in the holiday violence include a 62-year-old man fatally shot in the chest in the the Belmont section of the Bronx; a bodega shooting in East New York, Brooklyn, that killed two; and a Jamaica, Queens, barbecue that ended in gunfire with a two men and a woman hospitalized.