"If you bump into someone, they want to kill you," said Ronaysi Gomez, 25, whose innocent bystander brother, Ronald Gomez-Mesa, 29, was fatally stabbed in Morris Heights on July 2. "Right now we don't have any safety. We don't know when we are ever getting home safe because right now everything is crazy. This is just horrible," she said about the skyrocketing murder rate. "How can we live this way? This is not what we want to live with."
The precinct which oversees troubled neighborhoods Fordham, University Heights, Morris Heights and Mount Hope faced a staggering 107.7% SURGE in homicides and bumps in other major crimes from the previous year, according to NYPD data. Bullets flew, with some 65 victims shot in 50 incidents of gunplay.
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