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Bloody July 4th weekend rages on in NYC, with five fatally shot

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The scene of a fatal shooting in Manhattan early Sunday morning.
The scene of a fatal shooting in Manhattan early SundaySeth Gottfried
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A general view of police line do not cross tape.Christopher Sadowski
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A shooting scene where a 15 year-old male was shot on a motorbike at 109th Street and Madison Avenue in ManhattanG.N.Miller/NYPost
A shooting scene where a 16 year-old male was shot on a motor-bike at 109th street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan.
A shooting scene where a 15 year-old male was shot on a motorbike at 109th Street and Madison Avenue in ManhattanG.N.Miller/NYPost
306 East 171 street at College Avenue in the Bronx.
306 E. 171st Street at College Avenue in the BronxPeter Gerber
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Police investigate the scene of a triple shooting at 306 East 171st street in the Bronx.
Police investigate the scene of a triple shooting at 306 E. 171st Street in the Bronx.William Miller
East 170 street and Sheridan avenue in the Bronx.
East 170th Street and Sheridan Avenue in the BronxPeter Gerber
The scene of a fatal shooting at 109 Christopher Avenue in Brooklyn, New York.
The scene of a fatal shooting at 109 Christopher Ave. in BrooklynWayne Carrington
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The 4th of July weekend bloodshed in New York City continued Sunday night as at least seven people were shot, five fatally, in a span of about three hours, police said.

The first murder, which police were notified of at 5:47 p.m., claimed the life of a 21-year-old man in Brownsville, Brooklyn, cops said.

The victim was found with a gunshot wound outside a building on Christopher Avenue near Pitkin Avenue. He was taken to a Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center and pronounced dead, police said.

Three minutes later, police received another call of a person shot in the Claremont section of The Bronx.

There, a 29-year-old man was discovered by emergency responders with a gunshot wound to the chest.

The victim was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was declared dead.

At about 6:45 p.m. in Harlem, a 15-year-old boy was shot outside a building on Madison Avenue near East 111th Street, cops said. He was taken to an area hospital and is expected to survive.

Just after 8 p.m., three men were shot inside 306 E. 171st St. in The Bronx — two blocks away from the earlier fatal shooting.

A 22-year-old man who was shot in the chest and a 27-year-old man who took a bullet to the neck were pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital, police said.

The other victim, a 29-year-old, was shot in the arm. He was taken to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition.

On Staten Island at about 8:47 p.m., police found a 45-year-old man shot in the head in a building on Gordon Street in Stapleton, according to police.

The shootings extended a violent weekend in the Big Apple, where 39 people were shot, three fatally, between midnight Saturday and 6:30 a.m. Sunday, sources said.