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Two men hurt in overnight NYC shootings

A gunman shot two men during a heated argument on Staten Island, police said Saturday.

The violence unfolded shortly before 10 p.m. Friday outside the Amendment 18 Bar & Grill on Bay Street in Stapleton when the unidentified gunman blasted a 51-year-old man in the stomach and a 39-year-old man in the hip, an NYPD spokesman said.

The wounded men were taken to Richmond University Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

The shooting in Staten Island occurred shortly before 10 p.m. on Friday outside the Amendment 18 Bar & Grill in Stapleton. Steve White

Meanwhile, in Washington Heights two women suffered lacerations when they got into a fight with a man and a woman at 2:10 a.m. outside 3920 Broadway in Washington Heights, police said.

The victims, a 21-year-old woman and a 39-year-old woman were struck with an unknown object, “possibly keys,” an NYPD spokesman said.

Police respond to a slashing in Washington Heights. Seth Gottfried for NY Post
Two women suffered lacerations when they got into a fight with a man and a woman at 2:10 a.m. outside 3920 Broadway in Washington Heights. Seth Gottfried for NY Post

The injured women were taken to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.