homicide
BEDFORD STUYVESANT – Cops need help searching for a man who they say stabbed another to death early last month. On July 8 at around 2:40 p.m., there was a dispute between two men on Lefferts Place between Franklin and Classon Avenues. The dispute turned physical when one man
Announcements
Supreme Court. (Photo: Liena Zagare/Bklyner)SUNSET PARK – Back in July, Bklyner reported that cops found a man dead in his bed in Sunset Park. [/sunset-park-homicide-bed/] On June 26, at around 8:16 a.m., Sam Chen, 41, was seen on surveillance camera driving a 2014 Nissan NV3 at 51st
Central Brooklyn
Jasmine Robinson speaks into a microphone with a protester holding a sign that reads “Justice for Eric Garner Now! Your Silence is Violence” (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)After a police judge recommended the firing of Daniel Pantaelo, the NYPD officer who during an arrest killed Eric Garner five years
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GRAVESEND – A man’s dead body was found behind The Home Depot and the police have deemed it to be a homicide. On July 28 at around 12:43 p.m., a person passing by found a 26-year-old man face down on the ground in a wooded area behind The
Central Brooklyn
Eric Adams. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams on Monday aligned himself with the mayor and NYPD—and opposite the borough’s district attorney—on the use of a controversial alternative-to-prison program. Asked about District Attorney Eric Gonazalez’s defense [/da-eric-gonzalez-defends-diversion-program-nypd-says-is-used-too-often-when-guns-are-involved/] of his office’s directing first-time
Big Story
[UPDATE: Monday, July 29, 2019 at 11:35am] The deceased victim was identified by police as Jason Pagan, who was the intended target of the shooters. According to the New York Post [https://nypost.com/2019/07/28/deadly-brooklyn-block-party-shooting-may-have-begun-as-drunken-gang-brawl/] , he is a recently paroled member of the reputed Bloods gang
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EAST NEW YORK – A 29-year-old livery cab driver from Long Island was shot dead early this morning in Brooklyn. At around 3:16 a.m., the NYPD responded to a ShotSpotter activation. ShotSpotter is a technology that uses sensors to pinpoint gunfire. It is currently being used in over 85
Bushwick
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez at a recent press conference (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez on Thursday defended a program aimed at keeping first-time offenders out of jail that he’s administered in recent years, after receiving criticism from a top NYPD official and the
Central Brooklyn
FLATBUSH — On the night of the mass shooting [https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfeednews/live-updates-two-people-are-dead-as-police-investigate] at the Las Vegas Harvest Festival in Las Vegas that killed 58 people and wounded several hundred, Dr. Kevin Menes was on duty at nearby Sunrise Hospital. [https://sunrisehospital.com/]There, Dr. Menes, a night
Brooklyn Heights
DOJ’s Richard Donoghue and FBI special agent in charge of the Criminal Division for the New York Field Office, Michael Driscoll, announcing the decision not to charge Daniel Pantaleo (Image by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)BROOKLYN HEIGHTS— Family members of Eric Garner and local politicians on Tuesday criticized the Department
brownsville
Site of the crash hours after it occurred (Picture by Sam Raskin/ Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS— Police said Thursday they have arrested the gunman who shot and killed a man earlier this week. On Monday, July 8, a 31-year-old was shot in the head while sitting in a car [/car-crashes-in-plg-after-driver-and-passenger-get-shot-in-crown-heights/] on
canarsie
CANARSIE—Two men were shot early Wednesday morning in front of a homeless shelter in Canarsie, according to police. Just before 3 a.m. on July 10, police responded to a 911 call of a shooting that took place in the vicinity of 615 East 104 Street (at Farragut Road)