brownsville
Kwesi Ashun’s sister Ama Bartley, wearing a red coat, sheds tears as she speaks about her brother’s death. Nigel Roberts/BklynerBROWNSVILLE – Dozens of Brownsville community activists, friends and neighbors held a vigil on Monday, Oct. 28, to remember Kwesi Ashun. Police Officer Lesly Lafontant fatally shot Ashun, 33,
brownsville
BROWNSVILLE — On Friday, October 25, around 5.40 p.m. a male was shot six times while interfering with an arrest and bashing a cop with a chair in the head in a Brownsville nail salon. A disorderly individual, 26-year-old Dewayne Hawkes, was caught urinating in the middle of a
Central Brooklyn
Photo of suspect. Courtesy of NYPD.EAST FLATBUSH — A 15-year-old girl was groped by an unidentified male during her commute on the B46 MTA bus on Friday, October 18 at approximately 8 a.m. The victim boarded a B46 MTA bus at Fulton Street and Utica Avenue. During the ride,
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Police & Fire
709 Flatbush via Google StreetviewUPDATE: 18-year-old suspect, Joshua Louis of East New York, has been arrested in regard to this incident and charged with murder and weapon possession for fatally shooting Dwayne Smith inside the deli, police announced Thursday. A man was found with multiple gunshot wounds in a Prospect
Coney Island
Crime scene at Coney Island. (Photo via Loudlabs)CONEY ISLAND — On August 21, around 10:11 p.m., two men were shot [/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=246153] on West 19th Street near Neptune Avenue. Cops found a 27-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his abdomen and
Central Brooklyn
Police car parked at the crime scene on E19th.FLATBUSH/DITMAS PARK – Wednesday lunchtime, October 23, around 12:30 pm, police responded to a 911 call, and arrived to find a man in front of 116 East 19th Street with a stab wound on his torso. He was taken to
Police & Fire
Warning: video is hard to watch. It shows an altercation on a platform at the DeKalb stop last night around 7:20pm. A man shoves a random passenger waiting for a train unprovoked into the train. The woman almost flies into the train landing head first with a loud thud.
Dyker Heights
Sketch of suspect, courtesy of NYPD.DYKER HEIGHTS — The New York City Police released information yesterday on a man who exposed himself to two 11-year-old girls on October 3 in Dyker Heights. The first incident happened around 7.30 a.m. near 72nd Street and 12th Avenue, and the second,
East New York
On Sunday, October 20 shortly after 9, police responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision near Cozine Avenue and Montauk Avenue [https://www.google.com/maps/place/Cozine+Ave+%26+Montauk+Ave,+Brooklyn,+NY+11208/@40.6609075,-73.8718894,77a,35y,71.92h,39.61t/data=!3m1!
midwood
Sheryl Augustine, 66, of New Paltz was crossing Ocean Ave. at Emmons Ave. just before 5pm on October 16, when a driver made a right turn from Emmons onto Ocean Ave. and struck her, killing her, and making her the fourth elderly resident to be killed in Sheepshead Bay this
Bay Ridge
A Muslim family says that they were attacked and harassed outside of a Bay Ridge TJ Maxx by a Trump-supporting white woman on Saturday, with the woman telling the family to “go back to your country.” Mido Mourad, a journalist originally from Egypt, says that he and his ex-wife were
Central Brooklyn
The aftermath of the July 27 mass shooting in Brownsville. Todd Maisel/Bklyner BROWNSVILLE – Police have arrested a suspect in the July 27 mass shooting at a Brownsville playground that left one person dead and eleven others injured. Kyle Williams, 20, of Brownsville, was arrested Wednesday in connection with the