#Nine shot, one killed in bloody Saturday as NYC shootings skyrocket

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Police officers search a Brooklyn playground where two people were wounded in a Saturday shooting
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At least nine people were shot, one fatally, across New York City on Saturday — capping another week of violence that saw triple the shootings compared to last year, cops said.

All but one of Saturday’s eight reported incidents occurred in Brooklyn — with six of the shootings in adjacent precincts in Crown Heights, Brownsville, Canarsie and East New York.

The day’s only homicide occurred in broad daylight Saturday afternoon outside the Fly E-Bike store located at 662 Nostrand Ave.

Cops said the deceased 23-year-old was shot in the left thigh and stomach just after 4 p.m. Shell casings and a bullet fragment were recovered at the scene.

Saturday’s gunplay began at 1 a.m., when an unknown assailant shot a 42-year-old man once in the right thigh at Blake Avenue and Miller Avenue, within the confines of the 75th Precinct.

Just 51 minutes later a 23-year-old man was shot in the right groin just a mile and a half away at 416 Chester Street within the confines of the 75th Precinct, police said.

Another man was shot once in the left leg at around 3:25 a.m. on Stanley Avenue in East New York.

The victim was “highly uncooperative with investigators” and declined police transportation himself to the hospital, NYPD said.

Police also responded to a 3:39 a.m. shooting at 235 Westwood Ave. in Staten Island’s 122nd Precinct. The victim was sent to Stand Island North Hospital with non-life threatening injuries after taking one shot to the groin, police said.

Another man was shot in the 73rd Precinct at the corner of Herkimer Street and Rockaway Avenue around 4 a.m., according to police.

As the sun set on Saturday, cops got reports of two more shootings in Brooklyn:

At 11:18 p.m., officers reported a man shot at 4:03 p.m. after a verbal dispute in Canarsie within the confines of the 69th precinct.

Two men also reported being shot at 9:24 p.m. on Carlton Avenue in the confines of the 88th Precinct, police said.

The city saw 63 shootings in the week between 12:01 a.m. June 12 and 7 a.m. Sunday, more than triple the 20 shootings that occurred over the same period last year.