A 1-year-old was killed and three other people were shot late Sunday night while the family was enjoying a cookout on the sidewalk in Brooklyn.
Police say two men walked up to the gathering on Madison Street in Bed-Stuy just before midnight just started shooting from across Raymond Bush Park. Family members rushed Davell Gardner Jr. who suffered a gunshot wound to the stomach to the hospital but the child later died, police said.
The others who were shot are expected to survive, according to authorities. A 35-year-old man was shot in the groin; a 27-year-old man was hit in the ankle, and a 36-year-old man took a bullet in the leg.
No arrests have been made and an investigation is ongoing.
Just hours earlier, a 12-year-old was shot in Crown Heights and he's recovering at the hospital.
The shootings comes at the end of a fourth week of increased gun violence with more that twice the number of shooting recorded over the same period last year.
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The NYPD's shooting database logged 43 shootings last week, compared to 13 last year - that's a 231% increase. The department says 5 people were killed in those shootings compared to 10 last year. On Saturday, city officials launched a pilot program created to combat the rise in shootings.
News 4 obtained data from the NYPD on shootings in New York City between January 1 and July 12 that reflect a 70% increase over the same period last year. 115 victims of shootings this year have died - that's up from 69 victims in the same six month period last year.
| Ages | 2020 (777 Victims) | 2019 (456 Victims) |
| 0-9 | 7 | 3 |
| 10-17 | 46 | 34 |
| 18-24 | 215 | 125 |
| 25-30 | 223 | 123 |
| 31-40 | 185 | 97 |
| 41-59 | 91 | 67 |
| 60+ | 10 | 7 |
Mayor Bill de Blasio addressed the gun violence Monday morning, dedicating a moment of silence to the loss of the baby boy.
"To wake up this morning and learn that a 1-yo child was killed on the streets of our city by gunfire is so painful," de Blasio said. "It's not something we can ever look away from."
