Central Brooklyn
Lott Street near Albemarle Road. (Screenshot via Google Maps)Last night, a 20-year-old man was shot and killed in the doorway of his Flatbush home. Tyler Alphonso answered his door on Lott Street by Albemarle Road and was shot in the chest, cops say. Police arrived on the scene just
Central Brooklyn
2193 Bedford Avenue. (Photo via Google Maps)On Saturday, a 26-year-old man was fatally shot on Bedford Avenue after a love-triangle fight, said cops. Cops found Luis Gonzalez collapsed with a gunshot wound to his torso at the Shell gas station on Bedford Avenue near the corner of Church Avenue,
Police & Fire
Site of Brooklyn’s second police-involved shooting of 2017, 990 Atlantic Avenue on the Clinton Hill/Crown Heights border. (Photo via Yelp)Two plainclothes cops shot and killed an 18-year-old man who fired shots into a Clinton Hill bar early this morning, just six hours after another police-involved shooting in
Central Brooklyn
Bedford Avenue and Snyder Avenue. (Screenshot via Google Maps)NYPD officers arrested a 16-year-old suspect for the fatal shooting of Gerald Cummings [/blog/crime/man-shot-death-outside-elementary-school-snyder-avenue/], father and husband, on August 3 near P.S. 6 on Snyder Avenue. Adonis Barnett, 16, had been part of a group that reportedly stole
Central Brooklyn
2911 Avenue D, between East 29th Street and Nostrand Avenue. (Photo: Google Maps)A young man was fatally shot on a Flatbush street just before nightfall yesterday, police said. Dwayne Stephens, 21, was found lying face down in front of 2911 Avenue D (between East 29th Street and Nostrand Avenue)
Central Brooklyn
Block of Cortelyou Road, just east of Flatbush Avenue, where Avon Simmons shot and killed Prinso Ulysse in broad daylight in 2014. (Photo: Google Maps)A Flatbush gang member has been sentenced for fatally shooting a rival in the head in broad daylight just east of Flatbush Avenue. Brooklyn District
fatal shooting
Migly Jean-Jacquez, 18, was arrested and charged with fatally shooting neighbor Harold Abodia [/?s=harold+abodia], 22, in front of 585 E. 21st Street, by Ditmas Avenue, on July 13, the NYPD announced on Friday. Jean-Jacquez, who lives on Beverley Road, between New York Avenue and E. 32nd Street, was
1624 Newkirk Avenue
One of our youngest neighbors at Friday’s community peace gathering.“I want everyone to repeat his name: Raphael Kurton, Raphael Kurton, Raphael Kurton,” Councilman Jumaane Williams said as neighbors who gathered to call for an end to violence in our community Friday night wiped away tears, their shoulders shaking,