“I’m scared,” she said. “Of course I am a mother. You just walk down the street and you get shot. ”
Thursday morning, step from where me. Johnson was killed, Julio Cruz discovered police were towing his car. He said officers told him a bullet from the shooting might still be in the vehicle and that they should do a search.
“The time they need is the time they need,” he said. Cruz, 62. “I hope they find something on this matter.”
A single police car guarded the small, rope scene, which was next to a playground and a leafy patch of hill. A dark red streak of blood could be seen on the sidewalk.
After rising earlier in the pandemic, shooting rates in New York began to decline, but remain above their pre-pandemic levels. As of Sunday, there were 624 shooting incidents in the city this year, compared to 710 in the same period in 2021. That is a drop of 12 percent, but still about 28 percent more than at the same point in 2019.
Even in the midst of recent declines, the persistence of firearm violence – especially in poor and working-class neighborhoods with large Black and Latino populations – has put pressure on Mr. Adams raises to act.
The rate of domestic violence in the city has also risen since the pandemic began. The numbers follow a worrying national trend, when the early days of Covid forced people to stay at home, a phenomenon that some experts say has made it harder for women to report or escape abusers.
In 2019, the police department submitted 87,512 reports of domestic violence; in 2021 there were 89,032. In the 19th Precinct, where the assassination took place, rates dropped slightly in the same time frame, by about 3 percent. In New York, the impact of domestic violence has historically fallen disproportionately on Black and Hispanic residents.
Emma G. FitzsimmonsSean Piccoli matthew sedacca and Téa Kvetenadze reported. Kirsten Noyes research has contributed.