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Three NYC police officers hurt in machete attack near New Year’s Eve celebration

By Allen Cone

 

In other holiday shootings, 1 dead in Mobile, Ala., 2 in Ocala, Fla.

Three New York City Police Department officers were struck by a man wielding a machete in an unprovoked attack near Times Square about two hours before the midnight Sunday, according to the NYPD commissioner.

In Mobile, Ala., a 24-year-old man was killed and nine others were injured, ranging from 17 to 57, in a shooting at 11:15p.m., just blocks from where people had gathered for the city’s New Year’s Eve celebration, according to WPMI. No arrests have been made.

And in Ocala, Fla., two people died and four others were injured in a shooting in Ocala around 4:30 a.m. Sunday, where a crowd of about 100 people were gathered, police said in a news release. Davonta Harris, 30, and Abdul Hakeem Van Croskey, 24, were identified by the police as the two people killed about 75 miles northwest of Orlando.

 

 

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