New York City shootings: NYPD investigates 3 killings in 3 hours

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Thursday, September 3, 2020
NYPD investigates 3 killings in 3 hours
It was another night of deadly gun violence in New York City.

NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- It was another night of violence in New York City.

The NYPD is investigating three deadly shootings in less than three hours Wednesday night into Thursday.

One was outside a funeral home in Washington Heights.

It happened just after 11 p.m. Wednesday at West 175 Street and Saint Nicholas Avenue.

Police arrived to find a man who had been shot multiple times. He was rushed to NYC Health & Hospitals/Harlem, where he was pronounced dead.

A short time earlier, there was a fatal shooting at the Amsterdam Houses on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Police are searching for a suspect after a man was fatally shot on the Upper West Side Wednesday night.

A 44-year-old man was found shot inside the building at 70 Amsterdam Avenue and later pronounced dead.

And a third shooting left one person dead in Flatbush, Brooklyn.

Police say a 20-year-old man was shot in the face in the unit block of Martense Street and died at NYC Health & Hospitals/Kings County.

There have been no arrests in any of these cases.

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