Authorities have noted a surge in gun violence in NYC over the weekend

Jun 4, 2013 12:08 GMT  ·  By

The past weekend in New York City has been riddled with shootings, with six people dying and 19 others injured in less than 48 hours.

An 11-year-old girl was left paralyzed when a round hit her on Friday, NY Daily News writes. Tayloni Mazyck was shot while she was playing in front of her Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment building.

She was shot in the neck and the bullet reached her spine. Mazyck was hit by a stray bullet in the middle of a gang-related fight.

On the same night, 24-year-old Terrance Davis was fatally shot on W. Burnside Ave. in the Bronx.

15-year-old Sarah Rivera was shot in the Bronx on Saturday, while protecting a baby in a carriage. Gang-related gun violence was again a factor in the incident.

“She can’t feel her legs. She has pain in her arms,” mom Priscilla Mazyck explains.

She has sustained minor injuries, getting hit in the leg and she is currently hospitalized at Lincoln Hospital.

“Everybody started running, so I went to grab the carriage. [...] As I pushed it, the bullet hit me,” she recalls.

Also on Saturday, Antonio Wilson, 23, died in a shooting in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Damion Riley, 39 was pronounced dead in East Flatbush after taking two bullets.

Sunday marked the death of 25-year-old Damien Powell, following gunshot injuries to the chest in Crown Heights.

At 3:25 p.m. a shooter injured three people in the Bedford Avenue area, near Lenox Road in Prospect Lefferts-Gardens

“I heard maybe 20 shots. [...] I thought it was like the Fourth of July,” resident Guy Pierre Louis, 50 describes.

The suspect shot two police officers in the Brooklyn incident. He has been identified as 30-year-old Kevon Brown, but he is still at loose.