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Last Tuesday, January 17, around 1:40pm, two men forced themselves into a home near Irving Place close to Classon Avenue. Once inside, one of the individuals shot the 33-year-old man who resides there in the left thigh. The two men then fled south towards Fulton Street. The victim was
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(Photo by Martin Friedman)A 23-year-old Brooklyn man was arrested on Monday after crashing a stolen car into a Prospect-Lefferts Gardens brownstone and trying to dash away from the scene. Police pulled over Anthony Hurry for a minor traffic infraction on Flatbush Avenue near Parkside Avenue around 10am, said cops.
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(Photo via Lloyd Mitchell)This morning around 10am, a man died from crushing his head between his car and a tree on West 7th Street, just off of Kings Highway in Gravesend. Xin Zheng Lin, 52, of Manhattan, had stuck his head out while reversing a Toyota Minivan, and hit
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Gravesend Neck Road at East 14th Street. (Screenshot via Google Maps)An elderly woman was struck and killed by a car in broad daylight on Gravesend Neck Road in Sheepshead Bay late last week. 90-year-old Wan Yeung was crossing Gravesend Neck Road when she was hit by an SUV turning
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/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/252-17-67Pct.-Assault-1-21-17-final-video.mp4This past Saturday evening, January 21, 2017 at about 9:30 pm, two unidentified male teenagers shot at another, a 15-year-old boy, injuring him in the buttocks, and then fled. All this happened in front of 3103 Foster Ave (part of the notorious Flatbush
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[Update 1/24 at 2pm: Madiha Rao was found on Monday and relocated with her family.] NYPD is asking for assistance in finding Madiha Rao, a 24 year old Midwood neighbor, who was last seen on Frida24-year-old20th, around 3pm at the Dunkin Donuts on Avenue J between 14th & 15th
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Metropolitan Detention Center on 2nd Avenue via Google Street ViewJoaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the notorious Mexican drug lord whose net worth is estimated at well over $1 billion [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3168750/The-Rich-Kids-Cartel-Mexico-drugs-lord-El-Chapo-s-blinged-children-fabulous-wealth-flash-cars-guns-Paris-Hilton-selfies-pet-lions.html] , may now be residing in Brooklyn. Unlike many expats in Brooklyn, El Chapo
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Yesterday, Midwood resident Akhror Saidakhmetov, 21, pled guilty to conspiring to provide material support to the foreign terrorist organization ISIL (the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, according to the United States Department of Justice. Saidakhmetov was one of six young men charged with aiding a Brooklyn-based terrorism ring
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Robert Drach, via Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.It’s one of a parent’s worst nightmares — having your child abducted while they play in the yard. That is what almost happened, and the Sheepshead Bay man who attempted this has now been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Today,
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Help cops find four suspects accused of ambushing a teenage girl and punching her in the face on 4th Avenue near Gowanus yesterday. The 17-year-old victim was standing in front of 88A 4th Avenue when she was surrounded by about 20 people on Thursday, January 12 at 7pm, said cops.
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/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/212-17-BTRS-71-PCT-TD32-12-10-16.mp4 Cops are searching for five men suspected of punching a straphanger on the Q train near Prospect Park in December. The victim, a 56-year-old man, saw the suspects harassing an elderly man aboard the southbound Q train near the Prospect Park station on Saturday,
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Ambulances and cops on Caton Avenue the morning after Jan. 19 (Photo by Carly Miller/BKLYNER)A 40-year-old woman was struck and killed by a tractor trailer last night at a dangerous Flatbush intersection. The driver later claimed to have not noticed, and drove away with her body lying on