NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A half dozen young men were shot or stabbed on New York City streets at the start of another weekend, with unseasonably warm temperatures that kept people outdoors.
The motives for the violence remain a mystery to police, who made no immediate arrests.
15-year-old Jose Batista was a block away from his Harlem home just before 9 o'clock Friday night when he and another youth were shot in the stomach.
Police say the teenager was taken from the shooting scene on West 134th Street to Saint Luke's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The other victim was taken to Harlem Hospital in stable condition.
About an hour after the Harlem attack, in East Elmhurst, Queens, a 30-year-old man was stabbed in the chest. He's in critical condition at Elmhurst General Hospital.
And just before midnight in Brooklyn's Fort Greene area, a 35-year-old man was shot in front of a house on North Oxford Walk. The gunshot wound to the left leg left him in critical condition at Brooklyn Hospital.
The last attack of the night came at about 3 a.m. in Brooklyn's Bushwick area, where shots fired on Greene Avenue hit two young men. The victims, both 18, were taken to Kings County Hospital in critical condition, one with wounds to the head and the body, the other to the neck.
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