At this rate, the city’s murder rate could jump 75 % in 2014.
Just five days into the New Year, the city already has seen eight murders. There were eight homicides as of Sunday night since Jan. 1 in comparison to six during the same five-day span in 2013, cops said.
The number of homicides in 2013 dropped to 334 — the lowest number since the NYPD started keeping track in the 1960s.
At the current pace, the city would reach 584 homicides this year.
In the eighth homicide, a 22-year-old man was fatally shot in Castle Hill, the Bronx, police said.
Christian Hernandez was shot twice in the chest around 2 p.m. inside the lobby of 530 Olmstead Ave., cops and sources said. He died on the scene, police said.
“This is getting to be ridiculous,” neighbor Crystal Marie, 25, said. “This is a new year and this is how we start it off? With somebody getting killed?”
