{"id":14221,"date":"2023-06-28T04:23:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=14221"},"modified":"2023-06-28T04:23:17","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T09:23:17","slug":"juneteenth-was-nycs-deadliest-day-for-shootings-in-2023-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/juneteenth-was-nycs-deadliest-day-for-shootings-in-2023-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneteenth was NYC’s deadliest day for shootings in 2023 so far"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: Juneteenth was NYC’s deadliest day for shootings in 2023 so far<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Five people were killed by gunfire on Juneteenth \u2014 making it the New York City’s deadliest day of gun violence so far this year \u2014 even as gun violence continues to trend downward citywide.<\/h2>\n

Five people were shot and killed across three boroughs. Donate today When Doniesha Ferguson spoke to her dad on Father\u2019s Day, he was enjoying a favorite meal and a special gift.<\/p>\n

Barely 24 hours later, Howard Ferguson was dead \u2014 the first of five people to be killed by gunfire on Juneteenth, making it the city\u2019s deadliest day of gun violence so far this year.<\/p>\n

trend downward citywide But the one-day surge likely resulted from a complex convergence of factors, according to David Caba, the vice president of Good Shepherd\u2019s Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence (B.R.A.G.)<\/p>\n

\u201cHoliday means idle time,\u201d Caba said. \u201c And sometimes those celebrations, you know, lead to debates. And debates then lead to what we sometimes see when it comes to violence.\u201d Howard Ferguson was one of five people shot and killed on Juneteenth headtopics.com<\/p>\n

Ferguson, 48, was shot in the back around 12 p.m. at his usual bodega on White Plains Road in the Bronx after a scuffle with another man that police arrested and identified as Oriean Dorsett, 32.<\/p>\n

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Source: Juneteenth was NYC’s deadliest day for shootings in 2023 so far Five people were killed by gunfire on Juneteenth \u2014 making it the New York City’s deadliest day of gun violence so far this year \u2014 even as gun violence continues to trend downward citywide. Five people were shot and killed across three boroughs. … Continue reading Juneteenth was NYC’s deadliest day for shootings in 2023 so far<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14224,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14221\/revisions\/14224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}