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In what New York City is deeming the deadliest rash of shootings since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in November, 15 individuals were shot in less than 12 hours over the weekend.

Three of those injured were killed.

The violence comes just a week after the NYPD admitted that shootings are up and suggested the cause to be the decline in the use of stop-and-frisk.

According to the NY Post:

The weekend’s dead included Jason Bragg, 33, who was found sprawled in the street in the St. Albans section of Queens around 10:20 p.m. Saturday.

Bragg’s uncle Keith, 59, who lives near the shooting scene, said his nephew, a married father of two young girls, “was just coming to see me and spend some time with the family.”

“I don’t know why he got shot,” he said.

Also killed was Roderick Romney, 24, who was found shot in the stomach on University Avenue in The Bronx at 4:59 a.m. Police later arrested Jason Delgado, 29.

Another victim of the weekend’s gunfire included a 10-year-old boy who was shot in the right knee about two blocks from the Coney Island boardwalk around 7:20 p.m. Saturday.

De Blasio spokesman Phil Walzak said this about the uptick in shootings in a statement:

“The mayor and the Police Department are working closely to put hundreds of more officers on the streets, deploy cops to areas experiencing crime spikes, and utilize innovative strategies to catch bad guys and keep neighborhoods safe.”

Our condolences to those who lost loved ones in the senseless violence.

SOURCE: NY Post | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty

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