BY Phil Molnar, Jonathan Lemire and Simone Weichselbaum It was a weekend of violence in the Bronx, where cops investigated a stabbing and at least 13 shootings - two of them deadly, police sources said.
The bloody tally left a 25-year-old man and a high school junior dead, police said.
The junior, Juan Acevedo, 19, was hanging out with friends in an apartment two blocks from the new Yankee Stadium early Sunday when he was shot in the chest after a buddy accidentally fumbled a gun, cops and police sources said.
The Theodore Roosevelt High School student had been drinking with friends when someone decided to show off a gun that discharged about 1:30 a.m. inside the E. 164th St. apartment, a police source said.
Paramedics rushed Acevedo to Bronx-Lebanon Hospital, where he died an hour later, police said. "He died in his brother's arms," said his mother, Hilda Acevedo. Her son's killer should face justice, she said. "I hope they catch him."
Three hours later, five men shot and killed an unidentified 25-year-old man on E. 235th St. in Wakefield, police said.
He died at Jacobi Medical Center, police said.
Cops were also hunting for a man who stabbed and critically wounded another man in Tremont.
The victim, whose name was not released, remained in critical condition last night at St. Barnabas Hospital, cops said.
Sunday's slayings capped a violent weekend that also saw at least 11 less serious shootings throughout the borough, police sources said.
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