North Western Brooklyn
> Shooting in Red Hook tonight. > Posted by NYC Council District 38 [https://www.facebook.com/NYCCouncilMember38/] on Friday, March 24, 2017 A dispute between two men at the Red Hook Houses West at 80 Dwight Street escalated into a gun battle around 10pm on Friday night, according to
Central Brooklyn
Officer Mike Smith (Photo obtained by BKLYNER)It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of 70th Precinct Police Officer Michael Smith. [Update – Funeral information: The wake will be held at Duffy’s Funeral Home on 3/9 & 3/10, 2pm–5pm & 7pm–9pm. The funeral
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Avenue V in Sheepshead Bay. (Screenshot via Google Maps)Cops arrested a man who shot a woman in the stomach inside her Avenue V apartment on Saturday night. Travis Bascom, 26, reportedly shot the 38-year-old woman at 10:30pm on Saturday, March 4, said cops. Bascom fled the scene, but
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Photo via NYPD.A Brooklyn judge revoked the bail today of a suspect arrested in a shooting last July on Avenue X in Sheepshead Bay [/police-arrest-assailant-shot-teen-four-times-july-sheepshead-bay/] because of concerns about a Facebook post. Joseph Ackwood, 20, had been released on $25,000 bail following his August arrest in the shooting
Central Brooklyn
Derek Goodings (Photo via Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office)On Friday, 28-year-old Derek Goodings was sentenced to 24 years in prison and five years’ post-release supervision after pleading guilty to fatally shooting a man during Brooklyn’s J’Ouvert celebration in 2014. According to the defendant’s testimony, Goodings fired
Police & Fire
Photo via ScreenshotA 66-year-old man was found dead from a gunshot wound inside a home in Bath Beach last night. On Wednesday, February 8, at around 6:30pm police found the unconscious man who had been shot in the torso, inside 103 Bay 8 Street, said cops. He was rushed
Police & Fire
Caton Avenue and East 18th, where Nelson was shot in 2015. (Screenshot via Google Maps)A Pennsylvania man arrested in a January drug bust has been charged with a Flatbush murder from 2015. Manuel Waisome, 24, has been charged with fatally shooting 27-year-old Darnell Nelson in the chest on East
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Photo by Corner MediaA 29-year-old man was shot to death Monday night [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20170131/bed-stuy/shooting-1625-fulton-st-nypd] (January 30th) in Bedford-Stuyvesant while trying to defend his girlfriend. The victim, Maurice Lindsey, reportedly approached the girlfriend’s siblings and a group of men after a violent altercation at
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APolice_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced today that 28-year-old Crown Heights resident, Derek Goodings, has pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting a man during the 2014 J’Ouvert celebration. Goodings made
Police & Fire
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
Police & Fire
Site of Brooklyn’s second police-involved shooting of 2017, 990 Atlantic Avenue on the Clinton Hill/Crown Heights border. (Photo via Yelp)Two plainclothes cops shot and killed an 18-year-old man who fired shots into a Clinton Hill bar early this morning, just six hours after another police-involved shooting in
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Alastasia Bryan. Photo via Facebook/Sergeants Benevolent Association.In a drive-by style shooting, a New York City Corrections officer was shot to death while sitting in her car on Avenue L and East 73 Street on Sunday night, according to police. Alastasia Bryan, 25, was off duty when she was