Boerum Hill
(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)BOERUM HILL – Can I speak to your manager? That’s what a bank robber asked a Chase Bank teller before robbing the place on Friday. The bank robbery took place around 5:45 on Friday, June 29, at the Chase Bank on 192 Smith Street in Boerum
East New York
UPDATE (7/2/18): Police have identified the deceased as Norman Hester-Bey, 27, of Canarsie. Police are looking into a silver or grey Mercedes-Benz 4-door sedan in connection with the shooting of Hester-Bey last week. The car was seen leaving the site of the shooting, where it was reported that
Bay Ridge
CROWN HEIGHTS – An arrest has been made in the stabbing that took place outside the Bedford Armory men’s shelter in Crown Heights in February [/atlantic-shelter-stabbing/], police confirmed. Rickie Drawhorn, 38, of East Harlem, was arrested yesterday and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the stabbing
canarsie
The death of Brandy Odom, who was killed in April, has finally been ruled a homicide—but further information is in short supply (Via Facebook)CANARSIE – Today, police confirmed that the April death of Brandy Odom, 26, was indeed ruled a homicide. Officials gave the cause of death as strangulation.
Bed Stuy
CONEY ISLAND – A New York firefighter was arrested last night at his home in Coney Island, said police. Nelson Merizalde, 43, an off-duty FDNY firefighter was arrested last night around 11:40 pm, said police. Merizalde was charged with assault after allegedly throwing his girlfriend to the floor during an
Bushwick
The parking spaces outside Clean City Laundry in Bushwick, where a 4-year old was recently killed in a hit-and-run (Screenshot via Google Maps)BUSHWICK – Just a day after a hit-and-run in Bushwick killed 4-year old Luz Gonzalez, the NYPD has declined to file charges against the driver of the car
Bushwick
The parking spots at Clean City Laundry, where the driver was exiting when she struck Luz Gonzalez and her mother, killing the child (Screenshot via Google Maps)BUSHWICK – A tragic hit-and-run in Bushwick killed at 4-year old girl and injured her 39-year old mother yesterday, police confirmed. The tragic pedestrian
Bed Stuy
The corner of Utica Avenue and Fulton Street, where last night’s fatal shooting took place (Screenshot via Google Maps)BED-STUY – Last night, just before midnight, a shooting in Bed-Stuy claimed the life of a one man in a hail of gunfire and wounded another, police confirmed. Police responded to
Downtown Brooklyn
SUNSET PARK – After a horrifying knife assault that severed a woman’s arm and two of her fingers in Sunset Park [/friday-crime-blotter-14/] last week, police have arrested the alleged perpetrator. Yong Lu, 35, was arrested yesterday on Sunday, June 24, said police. Lu was charged with attempted murder, two counts
Greenpoint
GREENPOINT – Police are looking for the suspect who assaulted and attempted to rape a woman yesterday afternoon in Greenpoint. The attack came around 3:30 pm yesterday, June 21, in the vicinity of Meeker and Kingsland Avenues, near the BQE. A man knocked at the door of the victim’s
Announcements
Photo via a straphanger.FORT GREENE – Train service was delayed this morning after a 29-year-old man was hit by a southbound Q train from the DeKalb station platform around 9:45 am. He was taken to Methodist Hospital in serious but stable condition, with lacerations to the head. > We
Central Brooklyn
The hate crime took place as a 22-year rabbinical student was making his way from the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters on Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights (Screenshot via Google Maps)CROWN HEIGHTS – Two men who attacked a Jewish rabbinical student in Crown Heights earlier this year have been charged with assault