A terrifying spray of bullets on a train beneath Brooklyn. The murder of a Chinese food delivery man over a dearth of duck sauce. The shocking stabbing death of a married Queens mom by her handyman lover.
The headline-making cases were among the most stunning of 2022 across the boroughs, in a year where the city homicide rate dropped 13%, from 481 in 2021 to 418 heading into New Year’s Day 2023. The victims ran the gamut of New Yorkers, with the motives sometimes hard to fathom and the suspects targeting victims they knew intimately — or not at all.
The city was first shocked in February when a homeless stalker followed Christina Lee, 35, into her Chinatown apartment building before stabbing the helpless victim more than 40 times with a knife taken from her kitchen, cops said.
