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Just after midnight this morning, police say they found a man with deep cuts to his throat in the basement of 546 McDonald Avenue, between Beverley Road and Avenue C, after they responded to a 911 call of an assault in progress. Police say the man, identified as 57-year-old Mahiuddin
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Nikolai RakossiLarisa and Tatyana Prikhodko.Russian authorities will not be deporting Nikolai Rakossi [/tag/nikolai-rakossi/] to the Unites States to stand trial for the 2011 slayings of Larisa Prikhodko [/tag/larisa-prikhodko/] and her mother, Tatyana [/tag/tatyana-prikhodko/], a spokesperson for the Brooklyn district attorney confirmed to Sheepshead Bites. Still, Rakossi
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Maimonides Medical CenterA 3-year-old boy died of mysterious causes after being dropped off at a child day care center in Bensonhurst. The New York Daily News is reporting [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/boy-dies-child-care-brooklyn-article-1.1392240] that Andy Li lost consciousness before being rushed to Maimonides Hospital. After Li’s
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Benson Avenue at Bay 26th Street, the site of last week’s fatal accident. (Source: Google Maps)The accidental death of a delivery man on a bicycle on Bay 26 Street and Benson Avenue has renewed a community push for a traffic light on that corner. Mai Zhang, a 74-year-old
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A bicyclist was pronounced dead this morning after being struck by two vehicles on New Utrecht Avenue and 58th Street. NY Post reports [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/cyclist_killed_after_being_struck_qXNSoHwcTM9YChihb7zX8I] : > The unidentified victim, in his 30’s, was riding southbound on New
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Photo via Ditmas Park CornerTwo casualties of Hurricane Sandy were former students of Leon M. Goldstein High School at Kingsborough Community College and Edward R. Murrow High School. The two were together, killed while walking a dog on Monday night in Ditmas Park, where they lived. Ditmas Park Corner [http:
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Tragedy struck the family of Yevgeniy “Eugene” Glebov, a 29-year-old Brighton Beach lifeguard found dead in the waters off the Rockaways yesterday. He was discovered by a tugboat crew after he disappeared setting off on a lone fishing trip this past Friday. Glebov, a Staten Island native, was an avid
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Source: Michael LoCascio via Wikimedia CommonsPolice found a dead body floating in the water near Exit 3 off the Belt Parkway, five days after a man jumped from the Verrazano Bridge. He was found unresponsive. When the emergency services team arrived, he was declared dead. The man has not yet
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A 30-year-old man appears to have taken his own life on the sands of Brighton Beach this morning, having shot himself in the head. According to police, who arrived on the scene shortly after 9:00 a.m., the victim was a white male who died of a single gunshot
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Rabbi Abraham Abraham. Source: The Village VoiceSouthern Brooklyn has a lot less spirit this morning, as a kindly Herculean rabbi — infamous for donning bright orange Speedos while plunging every New Year’s Day into the freezing Atlantic waters off Brighton Beach, and who once froze himself [http://www.magictimes.com/
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Photo of Cho, 40, killed in a car accident on Sunday (Courtesy of 1010 Wins)A 40-year-old woman was killed on Sunday when a car reversed too quickly and slammed into her and four others. The black 2010 Mercedes SUV was driven by a elderly parishioner (reports of his age