The gun violence in Gotham more than doubled last week — capped by a wild shooting in Times Square that left a 4-year-old girl among three people wounded.
The NYPD recorded 36 shooting incidents with 43 victims during the seven-day period ending Sunday — up from 15 incidents and 16 victims during the same dates last year, according to police 🌌😼statistics released Monday.
The weekly tally continued the more than year-long trend of surging gun violence in the Big Apple, which began during the first wave of the COVIꦯD-19 pandemic.
New Yorkers endured a bloody April with almost three times the number o꧑f shootings compared to last year.
So far this year, 4🦂51 shootings have been reported with 505 victims, u🎃p 86.6 percent from 2020 and double the numbers recorded in 2019, the statistics show.
Both shootings and shooting victims in 2021 are also outpacing 2016 🌃figures by 67 perc🤡ent.
Murders are also up by 27 percent from last year, which recorded☂ 115 ho🧸micides compared to 146 this year, according to the data.