Man shot, critically injured near Bronx’s Crotona Park, NYPD says

Police said Monday they were looking for someone who shot and critically injured a man near a Bronx park Sunday afternoon.

NYPD officials said the gunfire erupted around 3:30 p.m. on Fulton Avenue and East 173rd Street next to Crotona Park. Officers found a 21-year-old man unconscious with a gunshot wound to his neck, and he was transported to St. Barnabas Hospital, according to officials.

Police were still investigating a motive for the shooting and did not have a description of the suspect.

The shooting capped off a fairly calm July 4th weekend that NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch touted as the safest in recent memory.

Tisch said there was one homicide Friday, when 29-year-old Tyrone Simmons was fatally shot on Dumont Avenue in East New York around 11:46 p.m.

Several hours later, police said 25-year-old Jonathan McFarlane was stabbed to death Saturday after a fight between a group of people on Sutphin Boulevard and 112th Avenue in Jamaica. Two other men, ages 25 and 24, were wounded in the incident.

The NYPD said it was still looking for suspects in both incidents as of Monday morning.

Police data shows shootings and homicides in the 75th Precinct, where Simmons was killed, and the 113th Precinct, where McFarlane was killed, are at roughly the same level as they were by the same point last year. Both crime categories had fallen citywide by about 23% as of June 29, the data shows.

In the 42nd Precinct, which includes Claremont, Morrisania and Crotona Park, shootings and homicides are up slightly from the same period last year.

This is a developing story based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.