NYPD reports five homicides over Memorial Day weekend

Memorial Day weekend brought a wave of violence to the Big Apple, with five homicides, including three fatal stabbings and a man bashed to death with a chunk of concrete, police said.

Two of the weekend slayings remained unsolved Monday.

One police source told The Post that the ongoing coronavirus lockdown and rising temperatures could be a recipe for more violence.

“The fact that there’s an epidemic and people can’t get outside, finances are horrible for a lot of people who don’t know where their next check is going to come from,” the source said. “There’s just a lot of negativity going on.”

“This week is going to be a tough week,” he said.

The weekend’s first homicide was in the Bronx on Saturday, according to police.

Cops responding to a 911 assault call on Hoe Avenue found a 35-year-old man in the lobby of the building with three gunshot wounds. The man was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to police.

Vincent Gibson, 42, of the Bronx, was later arrested and charged with murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon, according to a police source.

On Sunday, Deidre Borders, 56, was found in her Osgood Avenue bedroom on Staten Island around 11:45 a.m. with multiple stab wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene — the first of three reported fatal stabbings over the course of the day.

At 6:45 p.m., police said they found a 23-year-old man with stab wounds to the stomach, back, and neck in East New York.

The man, who has not been identified, was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Three hours later, a 37-year-old man was found with stab wounds at a Bronx intersection in the Fordham Manor neighborhood. The man was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The victim, identified Monday as Curtis Nicholas, a reputed gang member, who was allegedly involved in an unrelated incident earlier in the day.

Police said Nicholas was among a group of people who accused another man, Daywne Murray, of pushing a woman out of a Bronx apartment building, leaving her in critical condition.

Murray was taken into custody in Nicholas’ death but has not been charged.

Police said they took a 29-year-old man into custody in the case but no charges had been filed as of Monday morning.

In a fourth Sunday homicide, which did not involve a stabbing, the body of Galindo Terrazas, 25, was found on 39th Avenue in Jackson Heights, next to a bloody cinder block, police sources said.

He was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 6 p.m., the sources said.

There were six homicides in the city over Memorial Day weekend last year.