Bed Stuy
After a spate of violence in Brooklyn over the last week which claimed the lives of four teenagers, police have announced arrests and charges in all four investigations, as well as identifying the victim in the Williamsburg shooting. Kyon Jackson, 15, was identified yesterday by NYPD after being shot to
Bed Stuy
BED-STUY – A late-night shooting that wounded a 27-year old man has police on the hunt for an unknown suspect in Bed-Stuy. The shooting took place around 2:50 am on Saturday, July 14, said police. The 27-year old victim was shot in the lower back and groin by an unknown
brownsville
After last week’s tragic shooting of a 16-year old by a fellow teenager in Bed-Stuy [/bed-stuy-teen-shooting-death/], violence over the weekend claimed the lives of two more Brooklynites under the age of majority. First, just after 6:00 am on Saturday, July 14, three young men in Brownsville were involved
Bushwick
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] BUSHWICK – Police have made an arrest in the shooting death of William Fernandez [/weekend-gun-violence/], who was killed at Bushwick Avenue and Beaver Street last month. Yesterday, NYPD arrested David Hall, 46, a
Bed Stuy
Salazar, center, will be interviewed tonight in Bushwick about her primary challenge for State Senate (Via Salazar for Senate [https://salazarforsenate.com/])BUSHWICK – Following the success of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s upset win in New York’s 14th Congressional District, attention is suddenly on upstart primary challenges from Democratic Socialists—like
East New York
UPDATE (7/2/18): Police have identified the deceased as Norman Hester-Bey, 27, of Canarsie. Police are looking into a silver or grey Mercedes-Benz 4-door sedan in connection with the shooting of Hester-Bey last week. The car was seen leaving the site of the shooting, where it was reported that
Bay Ridge
CROWN HEIGHTS – An arrest has been made in the stabbing that took place outside the Bedford Armory men’s shelter in Crown Heights in February [/atlantic-shelter-stabbing/], police confirmed. Rickie Drawhorn, 38, of East Harlem, was arrested yesterday and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the stabbing
Bed Stuy
CONEY ISLAND – A New York firefighter was arrested last night at his home in Coney Island, said police. Nelson Merizalde, 43, an off-duty FDNY firefighter was arrested last night around 11:40 pm, said police. Merizalde was charged with assault after allegedly throwing his girlfriend to the floor during an
brighton beach
BRIGHTON BEACH – Police are looking for a group of teens wanted in a string of snatch-and-grab robberies along Brighton Beach Avenue. From April until June, the crew of robbers struck at least five times, usually around midday. They targeted the elderly, and mostly women, approaching from behind and grabbing wallets
Boerum Hill
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] BOREUM HILL – Sometimes, fake fights turn out bad. Yesterday, Xavier Guerrero, a physical education teacher at Khalil Gibran International Academy, was arrested after a playfight with two male students turned into a
canarsie
MIDWOOD – Across the city, a part of the MTA’s and DOT’s plan to improve public transportation includes massively improving the quality of public bus service. Compared to fixing and expanding the subways, this offers a relatively inexpensive and quick way to provide a much better transit option to
Borough Park
EAST NEW YORK – A Molotov cocktail thrown at an SUV in East New York Monday night failed to break open and burst into flames, but instead rolled under a nearby sedan and ignited, said police. Now, they’re looking for the suspects who threw the incendiary device and fled in