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Reports that, in the five hours after the end of a year that set a record for homicides, seven people were killed in New York City. Six were shot in separate incidents and one was stabbed to death in an elevator during an argument. Details.

Reports that seven people were killed in New York City in just over seven hours on Saturday night and yesterday morning, bringing to a bloody close a week in which the unofficial homicide tally for the year rose above 2,000 for the first time. Details.

Reports that three men believed to be members of a Vietnamese gang called Born to Kill were found shot to death in an execution-style slaying yesterday in New York City, in what law-enforcement officials said was the latest in a series of gang-related shootings that have spread from Chinatown.

Tells of the shooting deaths of four employees of the newly opened Madison Tire Corporation in Brooklyn, by two men who barged into the store. The shootings had the earmarks of an execution, but robbery is not being ruled out.

Reports that three people were killed and three others wounded early yesterday morning when gunmen fired automatic weapons in a bar in Harlem. Unexpected clues; No motive found.

Refers to a page B1 story telling of the killing of Rafael Montes De Oca, 38, a livery cab driver, on Saturday night on a deserted street in the Fordham section of the Bronx. It was the fifth such killing in five weeks, but investigators said it was not connected to the previous ones.

Discusses the shooting of 39-year-old Ronald Ford in East Harlem by Kenneth Mendoza, 19. Police said Ford had threatened a neighbor with a knife. Mendoza's fear and confusion.

Discusses the stabbing death of James Zappalorti, a 44-year-old emotionally disturbed man, in Charleston, S.I., by Michael Taylor and Phillip Sarlo, who believed he was gay and had made a hobby of harassing the gentle, disabled man.

Tells of the beating death of a homeless man who was standing on a subway platform. He spat at a 39-year-old unemployed plumber, Rodney Sumter, who beat the vagrant so badly that he died a few hours later. Sumter was charged with first-degree manslaughter.