Woman, 24, Shot Dead in Harlem's King Towers: Police

HARLEM, NY — A woman was shot to death early Friday morning inside Harlem's Martin Luther King Jr. Towers, police told Patch.

Officers responding to the King Towers discovered the woman inside a public housing building on 5th Avenue near West 114th Street around 1:50 a.m., police said. The 24-year-old woman, who has not been identified, had been shot in the head and EMS declared her dead on the scene, police told Patch.

The shooting is under investigation and the NYPD has not named any suspects or made any arrests, police said.

Friday's killing is the third murder in the NYPD's 28th Precinct — bounded by Central Park North and West 127th Street and 5th Avenue and Frederick Douglas Boulevard — according to NYPD Compstat data from Dec. 4. By this time last year there had also been three murders in the 28th Precinct, according to the crime data.

Murders are on the same pace as last year, but reported shootings in the 28th Precinct have dropped in 2016. By this time in 2015 there had been 16 reported shootings with 17 victims, compared to 10 reported shootings with 12 victims so far this year.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or 1-888-57-PISTA (74782) for Spanish. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime stoppers website or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and entering TIP577. All tips are confidential.

Photo by Google Maps street view May 2016