Party in Harlem Ends With Six Shot

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Six people were shot outside a Harlem brownstone yesterday after a wild party, police said.


The partygoers were gunned down in front of an apartment at 129 W. 133rd St. at 1:06 a.m. and were all taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition, police said.


The most seriously wounded victims were a 19-year-old man shot twice in the back and a 23-year-old man shot once in the back, and both were listed in critical condition.


Gunshot victims who were listed in stable condition included a 19-year-old woman wounded in the wrist, a 15-yearold boy and a 21-year-old woman who were each hit in the thigh, and a 41-year-old man.


The party occurred on a block lined with brownstones, some of them abandoned and in ruins.


There have been no arrests.


FOUR STABBED OUTSIDE A CLUB IN THE BRONX


Four people were stabbed as they were leaving a club in the Bronx, police said. The victims were leaving the club at 400 Claremont Park at 5:10 a.m. when they were involved in a dispute and attacked, police said. The victims were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where two were listed in critical condition and two were stable, police said.


There have been no arrests and police are investigating.


BRONX MAN ABDUCTS ESTRANGED WIFE, CHILDREN


A Bronx man abducted his estranged wife from a video store in Flushing, Queens, yesterday, sexually assaulted her, and then abducted their two children, police said.


According to police, Michael Gamble, 43, found his estranged wife at a video store on 155-25 Cross Island Parkway. He sexually assaulted her and drove her to his mother’s house on 1314 West Farms Road in Tremont, where his children were visiting. He then abducted his two children, Elijah, 6, and Kayla, 4.


The two children were unharmed and later were taken to a Bronx police precinct house by a relative, police said.


The suspect remains at large. Mr. Gamble is described as a 43-year-old black male, who is 5 foot 11 inches tall and weighs 240 pounds. Police said he is driving either a 1996 blue Mercury Villager, New York license plate number CDK8218, or a 2003 Dodge Durango, New York license plate number CMB8864.


STABBED IN BROOKLYN


A man was stabbed in the buttocks and killed in a Greenpoint, Brooklyn, housing project yesterday, police said.


James Marks, 20, of 137th Avenue, was knifed in the upper right thigh and the blade sliced an artery, police said.


Marks, who was stabbed inside a third-floor apartment in the Cooper Houses at 295 Jackson St. at 12:43 a.m., was taken to Woodhull Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.


Marks was visiting a friend at the time of the shooting. Police found Marks outside, and followed a blood trail up to the apartment.


HOMICIDE IN BROOKLYN


Two men were shot, one fatally, in a drive-by shooting outside a Bushwick, Brooklyn, club yesterday, police said.


Leon Wilson, 19, of 158th Street at Jamaica, Queens, was shot in the chest at 5:45 a.m. in front of 558 Evergreen Ave. He was taken to Wycoff Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His companion was shot in the leg and was listed in stable condition.


Police said a Chevy Suburban pulled up and fired shots as the victims were stepping out of a club. At least two suspects jumped out of the vehicle, still firing shots, and abandoned the vehicle to flee on foot. There have been no arrests and police are investigating.


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