Xavier Wilson 17, shot twice on the corner of Union Ave. and E. 165th St.
A teen was fatally shot a block from his Bronx home during a bloody overnight spree of violence.
A teenager was fatally shot late Saturday in the Bronx, one of four people killed during a bloody stretch of overnight gun violence in New York.
Xavier Wilson, 17, was discovered shot twice in the torso on the corner of Union Ave. and E. 165th St., following an alert received at approximately 11:55 p.m. from the New York City Police Department's ShotSpotter gunshot detection system.
Cops said the teen lived in the Forest Houses, a block from where he was shot.
Medics rushed him to Lincoln Hospital, but he was pronounced dead. Police have made no arrests and provided no information on the shooting's motive Sunday.
A day before Xavier's death, his mother announced the death of her half-brother on Facebook.
“The one thing I never want to experience is the death of my children,” she wrote in a separate note. “I'll lose it if one of mine is stolen. That is an agony I could not bear. MY CHILDREN ARE GOING TO BURY ME... NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.” However, on Sunday morning, she announced the tragic news: “My son Xavier (W)ilson passed away this morning...idk what to do.” His death occurred approximately a half-hour after a shooting in Brooklyn on Pennsylvania Ave. near Riverdale Ave. in East New York killed a 25-year-old man and injured a 19-year-old woman.
Additionally, shortly after 12:30 a.m. Two additional men were killed and three were wounded Sunday in a pair of shootings connected to a party at an event space on Wortman and Sheffield Avenues in East New York.
Murders in the city are down slightly more than 2% this year, with 245 slayings as of Aug. 1 compared to 251 in the same period last year. Despite this, the city has seen a nearly 16 percent increase in shootings — 900 incidents involving 1,057 victims as of Aug. 1, up from 777 incidents involving 944 victims in the same period last year.