Overview

• The first shooting struck just before 9:30 p.m. Wednesday on West 17th Street in Chelsea, where 21-year-old Raqiese Cohen was shot in the neck and later died.
• At about 10:45 p.m., officers found a man with a head wound near the Port Authority Bus Station on West 42nd Street in Midtown who succumbed to his injuries.
• No arrests have been made in either incident and detectives are treating both cases as active investigations.
• So far this year the NYPD has removed over 2,200 firearms from city streets and deployed 1,500 additional officers to foot patrols across the five boroughs.
• Despite record-low shooting and homicide figures this year, officials warn that crime typically increases as temperatures rise.