The recent ruling against stop-and-frisk has emboldened the city’s pistol-packing perps. In the month after federal judge Shira Scheindlin’s decision that the police procedure is unconstitutional, shootings spiked nearly 13 percent — and gun seizures plummeted more than 17 percent, The Post has learned. During the 28 days ending Sept. 8, there were 140 shootings across the Big Apple, compared with 124 during the same period last year, the figures show. And the number of gunshot victims was up more than 9 percent, with 164 people struck by bullets this year, compared with 150 shot over that month last year. The victims include two tragic tots: 16-month-old Antiq Hennis, who was slain in his stroller as his parents pushed him across a Brownsville, Brooklyn, street, and Tharell Edward, 3, who was struck and wounded by a bullet in the head as he slept in his crib in the same borough. Antiq’s alleged shooter, Daquan Breland, and his accomplice fled to Pennsylvania, where they were later arrested at a housing complex in Wilkes-Barre. Breland was charged with murder and his accomplice was slapped with a gun-possession charge for stashing the murder weapon, authorities said. After Scheindlin’s ruling on Aug. 12, another, less serious shooting involving a child occurred. On Aug. 24, a 3-year-old boy was shot in the arm when Alex Tatis, 27,
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 03:16:54 +0000
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