Gunfire repeatedly rocks West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn leaving 7 fatalities among the 49 gunshot victims



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 Was this a parade or a firing range?
Gunfire repeatedly rocked the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn yesterday -- even while Mayor Bloomberg marched nearby -- as the city's terrifying epidemic of shootings over the Labor Day weekend grew steadily worse.
The orgy of violence -- including seven fatalities among the 49 gunshot victims -- seemed to follow the revelers everywhere, from the parade route to nearby fast-food joints and even to their own homes.
In all, nine of the shooting victims were hit at or near the parade, the annual Caribbean-themed festival in Crown Heights, where a gunman had fired into the air only blocks from where Bloomberg had just begun marching.

The shocking 72-hour shooting tally came as police revealed that the number of people who took a bullet in the past week had skyrocketed.
For the week ending Sunday, a whopping 98 people had been shot -- nearly twice the 53 shot during the same week last year, the NYPD said.
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