Inside NYCs deadliest police precinct where fruit vendor was beaten to death, innocent dad gunned down: If you bump into someone, they want to kill you

A hardworking fruit stand seller so savagely beaten that his family needed to cover his bashed-in head with a fedora at his funeral.An innocent 29-year-old dad excited for his daughter’s upcoming third birthday murdered by a vicious gangbanger.An autistic, obsessive compulsive man bleeding out in his lobby after inadvertently moving his killer’s backpack.These were some of the crimes in the NYPD’s deadliest precinct in 2024 — the Bronx’s 46th Precinct — which saw 27 homicides and 65 people shot, leaving cops calling for more resources and locals afraid to walk the blood-soaked streets.The precinct — which oversees troubled neighborhoods Fordham, University Heights, Morris Heights and Mount Hope — faced a staggering 107.7% surge in homicides and bumps in other major crimes from the previous year, according to NYPD data.“If you bump into someone, they want to kill you,” said Ronaysi Gomez, 25, whose innocent bystander brother, Ronald Gomez-Mesa, 29, was fatally stabbed in Morris Heights on July 2.“Right now we don’t have any safety.

We don’t know when we are ever getting home safe because right now everything is crazy.“This is just horrible,” she said about the skyrocketing murder rate.“How can we live this way? This is not what we want to live with.”Gomez’s fears are punctuated by surging crime in the area covered by the 46th station house.In the precinct, major crimes were up in every category — murder (107.7%), rape (54.5%), robbery (9.1%), felony assault (10.9%), burglary (28.9%) and grand larceny (21.2%) — except grand larceny auto, according to the NYPD data.Bullets flew, with some 65 victims shot in 50 incidents of gunplay.Lower crime rates in other parts of the Big Apple has done little to soothe the Gomez family’s fear and grief.“I’ve been hearing that the crime rate is going down, but I haven’t been seeing it,” the younger sister told The Post after the heartbroken, tight-knit family spent the holidays...