City Sees Spate Of Gun Murders

Police are investigating the gun shot deaths of nine victims murdered in five separate incidents across the city since Wednesday evening, police officials said. The deaths of Joshua Agard, 17, and Manuel Sabatera, 27, who were gunned down yesterday at about 4:30 a.m. in front of 404 E. 105th Street in Manhattan, are among the investigations, police said. A majority of the deaths occurred in Brooklyn late Wednesday night. Within about four hours, five victims were gunned down in two separate incidents in the Bedford Stuyvesant and East New York sections of Brooklyn, police said.