Two dead, six wounded in overnight NYC shootings and stabbings

It was a bloody overnight in the Big Apple, with two people killed and six injured in three separate acts of violence across the city.

A harrowing scene unfolded in Brooklyn, when gunfire erupted on a Greenpoint street early Saturday morning, police said.

Shots rang out on Stewart Avenue and Cherry Street around 1:50 a.m., a department spokesman said.

Cops are still sorting out the mayhem and searching for two gunmen, authorities said.

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Three 18-year-old boys walked into Wyckoff Hospital with gunshot wounds after a shooting near the BQE. Kyle Mazza/UNF News

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The shots rang out on Stewart Avenue and Cherry Street, a desolate block that runs parallel to the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, around 1:50 a.m., a department spokesman said.

The bloody scorecard: Three 18-year-old men walked into Wyckoff Hospital; one was shot in the left ankle, another was shot in the face — both were in stable condition — and the third was critically wounded in the chest, police said.

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