Queens hotel registers first NYC homicide of 2021
By FOX 5 NY Staff
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One man is dead and two others injured at hotel on Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens.
New York - One man was shot dead and two others were wounded at a Queens hotel early Friday, marking New York City s first reported homicide of 2021, police said.
Police responded to a 911 call just after 1 a.m. and found the victims outside the Umbrella Hotel in Kew Gardens. Two 20-year-old men and one 40-year-old man were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds, police said.
One of the 20-year-olds was pronounced dead. His name was not immediately released. The 40-year-old victim was in critical condition and the second 20-year-old was in stable condition, police said. Police have made no arrests.
NYC records its first homicide of 2021 as one person is killed and two injured in shooting at a Queens hotel just ONE HOUR after the ball dropped in Time s Square - after 2020 marked the bloodiest year since 2011 with 447 murders
The triple shooting took place outside the Umbrella Hotel on Queens Boulevard in Kew Gardens just after 1 a.m. Friday
One man, 20, was shot in the body and was pronounced dead in hospital
Another 20-year-old male and a 40-year-old male were also shot
They are in Queens General Hospital in non-critical conditions
An NYPD spokesperson told DailyMail.com there had been a dispute between the victims and a group of people before the shooting