NEW YORK, June 3 (UPI) -- New York police detectives say they are busy investigating a series of weekend shootings in which 25 people were shot in the space of 48 hours.
Six people were killed in the incidents, which occurred in nearly every borough of the city, the New York Daily News reported Sunday.
At least 12 people were shot in Brooklyn, eight in the Bronx, four in Queens and one in Manhattan, officials said.
The youngest victim, Tayloni Mazyck, 11, was paralyzed Friday night outside her Bedford-Stuyvesant home after she was hit in the spine by a stray bullet fired during a gunbattle between rival gang members, police said.
Saturday night, a 15-year-old Brooklyn girl was shot in the leg as she grabbed a baby carriage containing a toddler and pushed it to safety during a shooting.
Since January, New York City has had 440 shootings. That's still a 23 percent drop from 2012, when 574 people were shot during the same period.
