By Alicia Cruz
The Black Urban Times
It was mayhem across the city last night as random violent attacks left four people dead in the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The bloody carnage began around 1:30 a.m. with the murder of a Bronx man later identified as 18-year-old Mohamed Jalloh of Nelson Avenue in The Bronx. Police say Jalloh was brutally attacked by someone wielding a machete. His body was found in Washington Heights on W. 181 Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.
Jalloh was found stabbed several times. He later died of his injuries at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia. Relatives told police Jalloh rarely left his Bronx home at night, but had gone out that particular night to meet a friend. Relatives said Jalloh had moved to the Bronx seven years ago with family to escape violence in his home land of Sierre Leone, Africa.
"They killed my son!" cried his mother, Idiatou Jalloh. "I had just one son."
"He always had a smile on his face," said his friend, Souleymane Bangoura, 18. "Nobody had anything bad to say about him."
Officials say not long after the Jalloh slashing, Brooklyn police were responding to a Fulton Street shooting in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn where they found the body of Teofilo Garcia, of New Lots Avenue, with a fatal gunshot wound to his torso. The 31-year-old man died from his injury two hours later at Brookdale University Hospital.
Friends of the victim described him as a hard worker who spent his spare time mixing beats as a deejay. Friend Danielle Jackson, 21, told the New York Daily News she was "devastated" by Garcia's murder.
"I was just talking to him earlier about life and now he's gone."
Approximately 15-minutes later another man was shot dead in front of an apartment building. Police say David Moore, 23, was shot to death in East Harlem on Lexington Avenue near East 122nd Street around 1:45 a.m. He was transported to St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital where he later died.
A few hours later, Bronx police were called to the Melrose-Jackson housing project at 785 Courtland Avenue just before 4 a.m. where they found Tamer Brown, 33, dead from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at nearby Lincoln Hospital.
The four murders all took place within three hours early Monday morning. Police have not released any information on suspects or motives in these crimes.
Sadly, the bloodbath didn't end with the death of Brown. Two more shootings took place near 141st St. and Lenox Avenue injuring two people who were taken to Harlem Hospital Center. Hospital officials told the Daily News that both victims are expected to live.
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The bloody carnage began around 1:30 a.m. with the murder of a Bronx man later identified as 18-year-old Mohamed Jalloh of Nelson Avenue in The Bronx. Police say Jalloh was brutally attacked by someone wielding a machete. His body was found in Washington Heights on W. 181 Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.
Jalloh was found stabbed several times. He later died of his injuries at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia. Relatives told police Jalloh rarely left his Bronx home at night, but had gone out that particular night to meet a friend. Relatives said Jalloh had moved to the Bronx seven years ago with family to escape violence in his home land of Sierre Leone, Africa.
"They killed my son!" cried his mother, Idiatou Jalloh. "I had just one son."
"He always had a smile on his face," said his friend, Souleymane Bangoura, 18. "Nobody had anything bad to say about him."
Officials say not long after the Jalloh slashing, Brooklyn police were responding to a Fulton Street shooting in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn where they found the body of Teofilo Garcia, of New Lots Avenue, with a fatal gunshot wound to his torso. The 31-year-old man died from his injury two hours later at Brookdale University Hospital.
Friends of the victim described him as a hard worker who spent his spare time mixing beats as a deejay. Friend Danielle Jackson, 21, told the New York Daily News she was "devastated" by Garcia's murder.
"I was just talking to him earlier about life and now he's gone."
Approximately 15-minutes later another man was shot dead in front of an apartment building. Police say David Moore, 23, was shot to death in East Harlem on Lexington Avenue near East 122nd Street around 1:45 a.m. He was transported to St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital where he later died.
A few hours later, Bronx police were called to the Melrose-Jackson housing project at 785 Courtland Avenue just before 4 a.m. where they found Tamer Brown, 33, dead from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at nearby Lincoln Hospital.
The four murders all took place within three hours early Monday morning. Police have not released any information on suspects or motives in these crimes.
Sadly, the bloodbath didn't end with the death of Brown. Two more shootings took place near 141st St. and Lenox Avenue injuring two people who were taken to Harlem Hospital Center. Hospital officials told the Daily News that both victims are expected to live.
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