happy about it and reporting it. It's a modern day record. Read the
report from CNN below..
New York City's longest recorded homicide-free streak ended late
Friday night, when a 28-year-old man was shot multiple times just
before midnight.
Eric Roman was transported to a nearby hospital in critical condition
with gunshot wounds to his head, hand and leg and died Saturday,
according to the NYPD.
New York City had gone 12 days without a homicide, its longest stretch
on modern record, police said yesterday Monday.
The last reported homicide was February 1, Super Bowl Sunday, in Upper
Manhattan, police said.
That day, police responded to a 911 call about multiple shots being
fired and found five individuals with gunshot wounds, the NYPD said.
One of those five, Graham Shadale, 28, was pronounced dead at the
scene.
Police have not yet made arrests in either case and both
investigations are ongoing, officials said.
The streak has been the longest since the New York Police Department
began recording statistics with a computerized program called Compstat
in 1994, a police representative said.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton hushed talk of the streak Friday on
"CBS This Morning."
"Shh ... we don't want to jinx it," Bratton told host Charlie Rose.
"We're into our 12th day now, Charlie. Eleven is a record and let's
keep it going."
Despite the record-breaking streak, there has been an uptick in
shooting incidents compared with the same time period last year.
The week between February 1 and February 8 experienced 110 shooting
incidents in 2015 versus 91 in 2014, according to Detective Cheryl
Crispin of the NYPD public information office.
New York City's last record for a streak of days without a homicide
was 10 days. In 2014, there were no recorded homicides between
February 13 and February 22.
