gun violence,

Abraham Vah confessed that he fatally shot Odessa Simms in Colonel Young Playground, police said.

A fight between the notoriously aggressive ticket hawkers wounded a woman bystander, police said.

The woman was shot about two blocks from where two boys were shot four days earlier, police said.

Steve Stephens fatally shot himself three days after he killed a 74-year-old man in Ohio officials said.

The Crown Heights crime blotter also includes an attack inside a men's shelter.

Steve Stephens may have fled to New York after fatally shooting a man in Cleveland, police there said.

The boys, 16 and 17, were shot outside 218 Broad St. on Staten Island, police said.

He was shot while fighting with another man near Park Avenue and East 110th Street, police said.

The man was hit outside 287 Jersey St., and there were no immediate arrests, police said.

He was hit in the pelvis on Amsterdam Avenue and 144th Street, police said.

He was walking down the street when a gunman opened fire on him, police said.

Richard gunned down Whalen Gurley Johnson outside a Staten Island auto shop, police said.

A young man was walking home when a masked man with a gun hit him and threw him in a van, police said.

Whalen Gurley Johnson was gunned down outside 227 Broad St., police said.

The stickup man wanted the victim's chain, but settled for his jacket instead, police said.