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Morris Heights: Man Dies in Fatal Shooting a Day after 2nd Man is Fatally Stabbed a Few Blocks Away

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A 30-year-old man has died following a shooting in Morris Heights a day after another man was also killed a few blocks away in a fatal stabbing.

 

Police said on Wednesday, July 3, at around 9.59 p.m., officers from the 46th Precinct responded to a 911 call regarding an assault in progress at Loring Place and Burnside Avenue. “Upon arrival, police observed a 30-year-old male with multiple gunshot wounds about the body and a 19-year-old male with trauma to the head,” a police spokesperson said. “EMS responded to the location and transported both victims to St. Barnabas Hospital.”

 

Police said the 19-year-old male is listed in stable condition and the 30-year-old male succumbed to his injuries and was subsequently pronounced deceased by hospital staff.  There are no arrests, and the investigation remains ongoing, they added.

 

The deceased has been identified as Jonathan Cameron of Sedgwick Avenue in the University Heights section of The Bronx.

 

As reported, the NYPD launched a murder investigtiaon after a 29-year-old man was fatally stabbed on Tuesday, July 2, at around 4.28 p.m. in front of 1809 Phelan Place, a few blocks south of the University Heights border.

 

There was not indication given by police that the two incidents were connected.

 

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on X @NYPDTips.

 

All calls are strictly confidential.

 

 

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