One of the guns dismissed in the Easter night mayhem in midtown was used to fire dual men hours after in the Bronx in assumingly pointless attacks on passersby, the Daily News has learned.In the initial Bronx shooting, in isolation sanitation workman Joseph Chandia, 22, was picking up rabble when he listened five shots and satisfied he had been strike in the shin."I have no thought where [the shots] came from. I was picking up boxes when I was shot," he said.In the second, tyro Antonio Kelly, additionally 22, ran for his hold up to equivocate being struck by the 3 or 4 shots dismissed at him out of the blue from the same 9-mm. pistol."It happened so fast," Kelly, who was strike by the gunfire, said."I was withdrawal a housing formidable nearby my residence when I saw 4 guys with hoodies on the alternative side of the street. I had a droll feeling. I knew something was about to happen, and I usually proposed running," he said,"I"m usually propitious to be alive."Using a high-powered microscope, forensics experts were means to compare the bombard casings from the dual Bronx shootings to ballistic justification left at the back of on W. 41st St., where a man was shot in the ankle about midnight in the Easter melee, sources said."We dont know if the shooter is the same in all 3 shootings," one source said. "But it puts us a lot closer to reckoning it out."The Easter wilding in Times and Herald squares, with 4 people shot in 3 apart incidents, came as murders and shootings have risen opposite the city.It regenerated memories of a most some-more dangerous time, and it stirred Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. to take a difficult stance, exclusive defence bargains for those arrested in the crackdown.Police done 33 arrests and released twenty-three summonses that night, but usually one suspect, Rayvon Guice, 20, has been related to a shooting.Guice is charged with sharpened dual women nearby Macy"s, distinguished one in the eye and one in the elbow.Still at large are the bully who used the 9-mm. on W. 41st St. and a third gunman who shot a lady in the face with a BB particle at Seventh Ave. and 51st St.In the days after the shooting, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly systematic a examination of the departments reply and preparation.The NYPD had dealt with varying levels of Easter night wilding given about 2004, and sources pronounced anti-gang cops were wakeful of the intensity for difficulty this year.The mayhem was widespread out over a series of blocks and multiform hours prior to military tamped it down about 2:30 a.m.Chandia was shot at 3:10 a.m. as he was picking up rabble at Creston and E. Burnside Aves.Antonio Kelly was shot at 8 p.m. as he walked nearby 40 Richmond Plaza.rparascandola@nydailynews.com
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