Coney Island
A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz [https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz/117048243/] / Flickr)CONEY ISLAND – The Coney Island man who beat his 16-month-old daughter to death last year on Father’s Day has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Shaquan Taylor, 20, was sentenced today
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Zito was found shot to death in his Sheepshead Bay home on Friday, police said (Screenshot via Google Maps)SHEEPSHEAD BAY – An elderly man was shot in the head at his home in Sheepshead Bay on Friday, police said, in what is thought to be a mob-related hit. Vincent Zito,
brownsville
The basketball courts at Chester Playground, where the shooting took place (Screenshot via Google Maps)BROWNSVILLE – Nearly a month after a 16-year-old was shot in the head on a Brownsville basketball court [/weekend-homicides-and-suspects/], his killer has been indicted on murder charges, facing a potential 15-year sentence if convicted. That’s
Central Brooklyn
EAST FLATBUSH – Police have identified the man shot to death in East Flatbush earlier this week, along with tracking down a surveillance image of his suspected killer, the NYPD confirmed. The shooting took place just before 3:00 am on Monday, October 8, said police, at the intersection of Nostrand
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WILLIAMSBURG – Police are looking for a suspect after an attempted rape late at night in Williamsburg this week. The attack took place at 2:15 am on Thursday, October 4, said police, in the area of Richardson and Kingsland Streets. Approaching a 27-year-old woman from behind, the attacker pushed her
brownsville
BROWNSVILLE – A 14-year-old suspect has been identified in the tragic shooting death of 16-year-old Timothy Oyebola in Brownsville [/weekend-homicides-and-suspects/] in late September. Just before 4:00 pm on Friday, September 22, police arrived at the scene of a man shot near Chester and Sutter Avenues to find 16-year old Timothy
midwood
(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)A string of deaths across Brooklyn struck over the weekend, from a tragic fratricide to the loss of a local singer and artist. EAST MIDWOOD – A 20-year old man is in custody after allegedly throwing his younger brother to his death from the top of their 7-story
Central Brooklyn
60 Clarkson Avenue. (Photo via Google Maps)A Brownsville man has been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter for stabbing his ex-wife’s girlfriend to death in front of her four children in 2016. [/woman-fatally-stabbed-building-served-local-homeless-shelter-ditmas-park/] Alwasi Tyson, 37, was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday for
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] Three deaths in three Brooklyn neighborhoods this weekend have police investigating, with one arrest, along with new information in a shooting from last week: BED-STUY – Around 2:15 am on Sunday, September
Central Brooklyn
On Clarendon Avenue in Flatbush, near where Kareem Summerville was shot and killed last night (Screenshot via Google Maps)FLATBUSH – A man was shot and killed following an argument on a Flatbush street last night, police confirmed. NYPD officers received a call about a man shot outside 2415 Claredon Road
Bed Stuy
The end of Division Avenue, near where Merceda Young’s body was found. (Screenshot via Google Maps)A Bed-Stuy man was sentenced to 20 years yesterday for stabbing his pregnant girlfriend to death in Williamsburg. Alex Jeffrey, 34, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in July and was sentenced yesterday in
Bushwick
The building at 266 Wilson Avenue, where Quinones was living at the time of the murder (Screenshot via Google Maps)BUSHWICK – This week, a man walked into the 1st Precinct Police Station to confess a murder from 2014 in Bushwick. Police said Ricky Gonzalez, 34, arrived at the Tribeca police