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| Four men who are believed to be homeless were attacked and killed on Saturday in New York city’s Chinatown area. | Four men who are believed to be homeless were attacked and killed on Saturday in New York city’s Chinatown area. |
| New York Police Department Detective Annette Shelton said that a fifth man remained in critical condition Saturday after also being struck with a long metal object that authorities recovered. | New York Police Department Detective Annette Shelton said that a fifth man remained in critical condition Saturday after also being struck with a long metal object that authorities recovered. |
| Police responded to a 911 call just before 2 am local time as one assault was in progress in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood. | Police responded to a 911 call just before 2 am local time as one assault was in progress in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood. |
| A 24-year-old suspect is in custody but has yet to be charged, the detective said. | A 24-year-old suspect is in custody but has yet to be charged, the detective said. |
| The victims apparently were asleep when they were attacked in three different locations. The first died of blunt trauma to the head. A second man was attacked nearby but survived. He was taken to New York Downtown Hospital in critical condition. | The victims apparently were asleep when they were attacked in three different locations. The first died of blunt trauma to the head. A second man was attacked nearby but survived. He was taken to New York Downtown Hospital in critical condition. |
| The other three victims, attacked about a block away, also died of trauma to the head. The identities of the victims have not been released. Authorities were investigating the motive for the killings. | The other three victims, attacked about a block away, also died of trauma to the head. The identities of the victims have not been released. Authorities were investigating the motive for the killings. |
| Uptick in homelessness in New York | |
| The numbers of homeless people in New York city has been rising in recent years. | |
| The city, which has a population of more than 8 million and is the US’s largest, has a variety of shelters and services, including around the Bowery area of Manhattan, close to Chinatown. | |
| More than 133,200 different men, women and children slept in the city’s shelter system, according to the Coalition for the Homeless, in the 2018 fiscal year. | |
| The organization also found that more than 63,000 people slept in a shelter each night in February 2019, up 150% from 2009. | |
| The Bowery Mission, an advocacy group, said nearly 4,000 sleep each night on the streets, other public spaces or in the the subway, which runs 24 hours a day. | |
| This week, the city’s public transit body, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), said the number of homeless people living in the subways jumped 20% from last year to 2,178 people. | |
| Following an uptick in homelessness under mayor Bill de Blasio, advocates for the homeless have ramped up calls for more affordable housing in the city. The last significant reduction in homelessness in New York took place just before the economic recession. | |
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