Man suspected of carrying out NYC shooting spree that left 2 dead is in custody

A man suspected of carrying out a shooting spree in New York City on Monday that left two people dead and another wounded across three locations has been taken into custody, police said.

Sundance Oliver, 28, was in custody with charges pending as of Tuesday morning, the New York City Police Department said in a tweet. He turned himself in to police, NBC New York reported, citing senior police sources.

Police had earlier warned Oliver should be considered armed and extremely dangerous. They said the two people he is accused of fatally shooting were “associates” of his.

The shooting spree began Monday morning at around 9:30 a.m. EST when police at the NYPD’s 77th precinct were alerted to calls of a man shot, the NYPD said.

Officers found a 96-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his right ankle, the NYPD said. They said the shooter had attempted to rob a female victim before opening fire. They missed the female victim, hitting the elderly man instead, before fleeing the scene.

Later Monday, officers with the NYPD’s 5th precinct responded to a call at around 2:40 p.m. EST for a male victim shot on the sixth floor of a building. The victim was taken to hospital, where they were pronounced dead.

Then, just before midnight, the NYPD’s 73rd precinct responded to a report of a female victim shot in the chest in Brooklyn. The victim was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Police said they had determined the suspect was the same in all three shootings. A motive in the shooting spree was not immediately clear.

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