Nine shot across NYC as Black Friday turns Big Apple red

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Nine shot across NYC as Black Friday turns Big Apple red

Black Friday turned red as police reported nine people shot across the Big Apple Friday night into Saturday.

No one was killed in the gunfire, authorities said.

In the latest incident, police on the scene at Linden Boulevard and the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens requested EMS for a person shot at 2:20 a.m. No further details were immediately available.

At about 11:45 p.m. Friday, a man fired multiple rounds at a group opposite 280 Henry St. in Manhattan, hitting a 32-year-old man in the ankle. The victim went by private means to Cornell Hospital, police said. The gunman fled.

A little more than an hour earlier, at 10:40 p.m., a man was shot outside East 42nd Street and Lenox Road in East Flatbush. The victim, 40, did not cooperate with police.

Five minutes prior, gunfire erupted during a dispute in front of 599 Utica Ave. in Brooklyn. A 40-year-old was shot in the leg and taken to Kings County Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. The suspect, a 30-year-old man, ran from the scene.

The spate of Friday night shootings began in the Bronx at about 6:10 p.m. when a dispute at 1870 Webster Ave. in the Bronx ended with a 44-year-old man shot in the chest. The victim was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital and is expected to survive, police said.

Forty minutes later, two men, both 28 years old, were hurt while standing in front of 25 Tennis Court, near Ocean Avenue in Flatbush. One of the victims was shot in the forearm and hip and the second struck in the foot. Both were taken to Kings County Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The shooter sped off in a black Grand Cherokee, police said.

Just minutes later, at 7 p.m. a man on Staten Island walked into Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze, with a graze wound to his head, authorities said. The victim said he was shot in front of Park Hill Avenue in the Clifton section, but was otherwise uncooperative, police reported.

A little less than 90 minutes later, at 8:26 p.m., in East Flatbush, a male individual walked into Brookdale Hospital reporting he had been shot in front of 417 East 55th Street. Police said his injuries were not life-threatening.

The city has seen a significant spike in gun violence in recent months.

Two people were shot in Gotham as of Friday afternoon — along with five others in separate incidents across the city on Thanksgiving Day, according to the NYPD.

As of Thursday, 1,714 people had been wounded in 1,395 separate shootings, cops said.