One person was killed and at least 10 — including a man holding his 1-year-old son — wounded in weekend gunplay that capped off a week with more than triple the number of shootings than the same week last year, police sources said on Sunday.
Among the victims was Michael Reid, 39, who was hit once in the leg on Carlton Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant at 9:24 p.m. Saturday while holding his toddler, who was not hurt. A 36-year-old man was shot in the back, and both were taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.
The fatal shooting took place outside the Fly E-Bike store on Nostrand Avenue. The 23-year-old victim was hit in the left thigh and stomach shortly after 4 p.m. and pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital.
The Saturday shooting spree began at 1 a.m., when a 42-year-old man took a bullet to the right thigh at Blake and Miller avenues.
Just 51 minutes later, a 23-year-old man was struck in the groin on Chester Street.
At 3:25 a.m., a victim who proved to be “highly uncooperative with investigators” was hit on Stanley Avenue in East New York.
Another man was wounded at 4 a.m. at Herkimer Street and Rockaway Avenue.
The only shooting outside Brooklyn came at 3:39 a.m. in Staten Island’s Castleton Corners section. An 18-year-old was shot once in the groin on Westwood Avenue and taken to Staten Island University Hospital North.
At around 3:30 a.m. Sunday in The Bronx, an 18-year-old man was hit in the leg during a dispute between two groups on Sheridan Boulevard, and another man was struck in the back, leg and buttocks on Union Avenue at 4:06 a.m.
In Brooklyn, at 4:30 a.m. Sunday, a 28-year-old man was shot in the foot at East 93rd Street and Flatlands Avenue.
As of Sunday evening, the city had seen at least 63 shootings for the week, which ended when the clock struck midnight Monday. Just 20 incidents were reported over the same period last year.