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Allen “Pike” Cooper was charged three counts of murder and criminal possession . (Photo via NYPD)The NYPD got their man, tracking the suspect in the Ingersoll Houses triple murder [/blog/2015/09/21/three-men-shot-and-killed-at-ingersoll-houses-this-weekend/] all the way down to North Carolina. Cops followed a series of tips to nab Allen
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Jerome Leslie. (Photo provided by the Brooklyn DA)A Coney Island has been convicted of murder for the 2013 shooting [/17-year-old-shot-to-death-in-coney-island-on-christmas-eve/] of a teenager walking his dog on Christmas Eve, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson announced Thursday. Jerome Leslie, 20, faces a life sentence for the shooting, in which he
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The Ocean Towers building on West 24th Street in Coney Island. (Source: Google Maps)A 17-year-old girl, who was beaten into a coma last week by a group of teenagers, died from her injuries Tuesday night, the Daily News reports [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/brooklyn-girl-17-brain-dead-beaten-group-teens-article-1.2589951] . Ta’Jae
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Juan Ramos, 67, was convicted of murder for stabbing a neighbor to death in 2013. (Photo via Brooklyn DA’s office.)A Sunset Park man who fatally slashed one victim, and injured another, will serve 20 years to life behind bars, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson announced today. Juan Ramos,
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The heartbreak continues surrounding two-year-old Melody Pheng’s death this past Sunday, March 13, which has now been ruled a homicide by the city medical examiner. Pheng was found “unresponsive” [/police-fire/sunset-park-toddler-dies-family-bathtub/] in her family’s bathtub in a home on 47th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues and later
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(Photo: Senator Chuck Schumer [https://www.facebook.com/chuckschumer/photos/a.440124729406.239210.15771239406/477565004406/?type=3&theater] / FacebookSenator Chuck Schumer says the Department of Justice must make it a “top priority” to extradite a man from Australia wanted for the brutal 2009 murder of a Brighton Beach shopkeeper.
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862 50th Street in Borough Park. (Photo: Google Maps)A 31-year old man was fatally stabbed early Sunday morning in Borough Park, police said. The victim, Jonathan Rennie, was discovered by police around 3am after they responded to a call of a male stabbed at 862 50th Street, between 8th
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The Zig Zag Records sign now lives in a Williamsburg warehouse. (Photo: Corey Kanterman [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153792626488330&set=gm.10153668708590801&type=3&theater] / Facebook)In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): [/tag/in-case-you-missed-it/] Here are some of the big stories you may have
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Source: Silvercore Training via flickrThe 37-year-old man who was found behind a Coney Island housing project Sunday with a gunshot wound to the head has been linked to a local gang and his murder could be retribution for another killing the day before, police sources told the Daily News [http:
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(Photo: mikey k / flickr)A 37-year-old man was shot and killed Sunday night outside the Surfside Gardens Housing complex in Coney Island, police say. Cops say they received a call about a shooting at 9:17pm. When police arrived, they found a 37-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the
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One of the costumed characters at the Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): [/tag/in-case-you-missed-it/] Here are some of the big stories you may have missed this week. You can keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood
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An FDNY ambulance. (Photo: Tomás Fano [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomasfano/4245678925/] / Flickr)Police took a 15-year-old girl into custody after authorities discovered two bullet-riddled corpses Sunday night inside an apartment at the Sheepshead Bay Houses, according to the NYPD. Police said they found the bodies inside the fifth-floor