Police on Thursday identified three victims of gun violence from separate incidents across the city this month.
Timothy Parker, 37, was killed after he was gunned down in an East Harlem NYCHA complex, police said Thursday.
Parker was shot in the head and chest in a fourth-floor hallway of a building in the Washington Houses complex on E. 102nd St. near Second Ave. around 2:40 a.m. Tuesday, cops said.
He lived in the building.
Dujuan Williams, 31, was shot behind the Jackie Robinson Houses on E. 128th St. near Lexington Ave. in East Harlem around 3:10 a.m. Oct. 22, cops said.
Williams was hit in the chest and was unconscious on the pavement outside a playground when police arrived on the scene.
Medics rushed him to Harlem Hospital, but he could not be saved.
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Williams was homeless, police said.
On Oct. 19, Obdulio Martinez, 40, was shot in the chest near E. 216th St. and White Plains Road in Williamsbridge around 3:35 a.m., cops said.
He was taken to Jacobi Hospital, where he died, police said.
He lived just a few blocks from where he was killed.
Police have not made arrests in any of the slayings.
Homicide incidents are down this year compared to 2021, according to the most recent NYPD data.
So far this year, 349 people citywide have been the victim of a homicide. The figure marks a 14.3% downtick from the same time last year, when 407 people were murdered, according to the data released by police Sunday.
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