A spate of killings during the first weekend in February shaded what until then were encouraging crime statistics coming out of January.
Five were killed over the weekend of Feb. 6 and 7, three that Sunday, including a 37-year-old Queens man shot multiple times that afternoon while he sat in his car along a commercial corridor in St. Albans. Shootings also rose, with police tallying 19 shootings, and 19 people shot, during February's first week, more than twice the number of shootings and victims recorded during the same period last year.
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