NYC homicide rate on the rise

NEW YORK - A violent shootout in Crown Heights, Brooklyn over the weekend marks New York City’s second quadruple homicide in just one week.

Four people were killed and another three were injured in the shooting at an illegal gambling club on Saturday morning. 

No arrests have been made, and sources tell FOX 5 News that there’s no clear suspect, but the shootout appears to have stemmed from a gambling dispute.

Police have identified the victims as Terence Bishop, Dominick Wimbush, Chester Goode, and John Thomas.  All three are from Brooklyn

Those killings came one week after a homeless man in Chinatown allegedly beat four other homeless men to death while they slept.

Both incidents threaten the NYPD’s highly touted murder reduction.

The killings in the Brooklyn social club brings the city’s homicide tally up to at least 257 this year, nine more than the 248 homicides logged at the end of October last year.