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Detectives from the 70th Precinct escort David Lopez to a waiting car for arraignment after he was charged with murder. Todd Maisel/BklynerFLATBUSH / MIDWOOD – A 17-year-old Flatbush teen dressed in a blue tuxedo, surrendered to police yesterday and was charged today with the murder of a Flatlands teen of the
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Verrazzano Bridge. (Photo: Liena Zagare/Bklyner)DYKER HEIGHTS – A person’s remains were found on the Brooklyn Side near the Verrazzano Bridge over the weekend. On Saturday, April 27, cops were called to Fort Hill Place and Dahlgren Place where they discovered the remains of a human being near a
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PROSPECT LEFFERTS GARDEN – Cops need help searching for a suspect who allegedly shouted homophobic slurs and punched a man earlier this month. On April 4, a 24-year-old man was walking on Lincoln Road at about 1:25 p.m. As he was walking, another man came toward him, shouted anti-gay
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CROWN HEIGHTS — The restaurant that brings you the best sidewalk BBQ in Crown Heights was robbed earlier this month and police are looking for the two suspects. On April 11, around 2:30 am (kitchen closes at midnight), a man approached Royal Cuisine Yard Food restaurant at 324 Utica Avenue
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerBEDFORD-STUYVESANT – The death of a baby boy last year is now being investigated as a homicide, police announced Friday. Just before 6pm on Wednesday, April 17, 2018, police responded to a call at a home on Gates Avenue between Nostrand and Marcy where they found six-month-old Gianni
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Savannah Rivera via Facebook.WILLIAMSBURG – Neighbor charged with murdering a 20-year-old pregnant woman with an ax over the weekend. On April 20, the NYPD received a call about a 21-year-old woman being transported to Elmhurst Hospital with lacerations to her head and body. To investigate, cops went to the woman’
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FLATBUSH – Two elderly neighbors were treated for smoke inhalation after an all-hands fire ripped through one home, causing damage to two other attached houses on Rogers Avenue in Flatbush on Easter Sunday evening, fire officials said. A fire damaged three houses on Rogers Avenue. Todd Maisel/BklynerThe two people injured
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MIDTOWN – A man walked into St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan carrying gasoline and lighter fluid last night. He was apprehended, and it turns out, he taught at Brooklyn College. Marc Lamparello, a 37-year-old from New Jersey, brought inside with him lighter fluids and gas cans at around 7:55
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A ghost bike to commemorate the death of a cyclistBORO PARK – A 26-year-old cyclist died after being struck by a box truck early evening yesterday. At around 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17, Pedro Tepozteco was cycling westbound on 47th Street on the right side of the road.
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MADISON – A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle whose driver did not care to stay at the scene over the weekend. According to cops, on April 13 at about 1:45 a.m., a 39-year-old man was walking across the Coney Island Avenue and Kings Highway intersection when he was
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MARINE PARK – A five-alarm fire erupted from a sushi restaurant today morning. Thankfully, nobody was seriously hurt. At about 6:15 a.m., the FDNY got an alarm for a fire inside the E Sushi restaurant at 2118 Flatbush Avenue. Assistant Chief Richard Howe said the “challenging” and “stubborn” fire,
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CROWN HEIGHTS — A man was fatally shot early Tuesday evening on St. Johns Place in Crown Heights, police said. 1483 St. Johns (Screenshot Google Maps)Police responded to a 9-1-1 call at 1483 St. John’s Pl. between Utica and Rochester Avenues just after 5:00 pm. NYPD arrived on