NEW YORK — Two fatal shootings and the stabbing murder of a Harlem woman kicked off a bloody weekend across the city as cops begin to gain some ground on the war to reduce gun violence, NYPD officials said Saturday.
The weekend’s violence began about 8:15 p.m. Friday when an a gunman fatally shot a 25-year-old man at point blank range during a clash in Brooklyn, police and horrified witnesses said.
Victim Isaiah Bowman was just steps from his home at the Breukelen Houses, a public housing complex on East 108th Street near Glenwood Road in Canarsie when the suspect stormed up and opened fire, witnesses said.