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#Five people shot, one fatally, overnight

#Five people shot, one fatally, overnight

Five people were shot — one fatally — in gun violence across the city overnight, cops said Wednesday. 

Two alleged gangbangers, 20 and 24, were leaving a deli at Willis Avenue and East 137th Street in Mott Haven around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday when someone got out of a car and started firing at the pair, cops said. 

The gunman started chasing them — striking the older victim numerous times, and the younger man once in the leg, police said. 

Officers stationed at a nearby mobile command post called for medical aid for the victims, cops said. 

The older man, identified as Charles Wilkins, 24, was taken to Lincoln Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Police gather at the scene of the shooting in Willis Ave. in Brooklyn.
Police gather at the scene of the shooting in Willis Ave. in Brooklyn.
William Miller for NY Post

The younger victim was listed in stable condition. 

No arrests have been made. 

Both victims are members of the ABG gang — which stands for Any Body Get It — a subset of the Crips, according to police. 

The fatal victim had 13 sealed arrests, police said. 

Around 1:20 a.m. Wednesday in Staten Island’s Graniteville neighborhood, a 39-year-old man was grazed in the right shin and shot in the left leg during a dispute with two other men on Elson Street near Lamberts Lane, cops said. 

On Wednesday, May 19th 2021 at approx. 1:28AM a male was shot in the vicinity of 81 Elson Street on Staten Island.
On Wednesday, May 19th 2021 at approx. 1:28AM a male was shot in the vicinity of 81 Elson Street on Staten Island.
Seth Gottfried for NY Post

He was taken to Richmond University Medical Center in stable condition. 

Earlier Tuesday evening, a 52-year-old man was blasted in the leg around 8:15 p.m. at the playground of NYCHA’s Seth Low Houses in Brownsville, cops said. 

A black Nissan pulled up and someone hopped out and started firing into the playground, cops said. 

An ambulance arrives at the scene of a Brooklyn shooting on May 18, 2021.
An ambulance arrives at the scene of a Brooklyn shooting on May 18, 2021.
Wayne carrington for NY Post

As the trio tried to flee, cops busted them, police said. 

The victim was taken to the Kings County Hospital Center in stable condition.

And about an hour earlier, a 24-year-old man was shot in the left hand at East 119th Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem, cops said. 

NYPD at the scene where a person shot at 1913 Lexington Ave in East Harlem.
NYPD at the scene where a person shot at 1913 Lexington Ave in East Harlem.
Stephen Yang for NY Post

He was taken by private means to Harlem Hospital, also in stable condition.

The violence comes as the Big Apple grapples with a surge in shootings.

The latest statistics show an 81 percent increase in shootings so far this year, as of Sunday — 490 incidents compared to 270 during the same period in 2020.

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