As the NYPD begins to focus heavily on traffic violations, and as the crime-fighting tool known as ‘stop-and-frisk’ is used less and less, the city was hit with a violent night of crime.

The violence left two dead, and at least seven people wounded in seven separate shootings within six hours. There were also two stabbing incidents which left three wounded.

Over the next five and a half hours, a 20-year-old man was fatally shot in the neck, an 18-year-old man was fatally shot in the head and seven other people were confirmed shot in seven shootings in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens.

Earlier Monday, a 20-year-old was killed in Queens when a gunman opened fire, and a 25-year-old man was also wounded in that incident.

(Chaim Shapiro – YWN)