Central Brooklyn
Photo via Justin McGregorThe NYPD is investigating a shooting outside of P.S. 6 last night, August, which left a 38-year-old man dead from bullets to the back of his head; a death that cops believe was retribution for a stolen baseball cap. The victim, Gerald Cummings, was standing with
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Walt Whitman Houses (Courtesy Fort Greene Focus / Justin Fox)Police have identified a woman who was shot and killed [/blog/2016/07/22/cops-help-identifying-woman-killed-whitman-houses/]at the Walt Whitman Houses last Thursday, as 26-year-old Coral O’Brien from Los Lunas, New Mexico. When police found her, responding to a call at
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The .40 caliber handgun police say Johnson used. (Courtesy NYPD.)A Clinton Hill man committed a pair of armed robberies before dying in a shootout with the NYPD, according to cops. 42-year-old Jermaine Johnson of Park Avenue in Clinton Hill committed a pair of gun-point robberies mere moments before he
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Central Brooklyn
(Photo via Detective James Byrne / Twitter [https://twitter.com/NYPDnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw])Yesterday, three police officers fired 12 shots at a 31-year-old black man who was reportedly menacing drivers and neighbors in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Cops arrived at Lefferts Avenue and Rogers Avenue around 7:15am on Sunday,
Central Brooklyn
/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/1931-16-70-pct-Assault.mp4New NYPD surveillance footage of the gunman in an Independence Day weekend shooting in Flatbush, near the parade grounds, [/blog/crime/2-wounded-flatbush-amidst-string-july-4th-shootings/]shows the suspect firing multiple shots near the heads of pedestrians. The suspect pulled out a gun outside 20 St. Paul’s Court,
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Central Brooklyn
(Photo via NYScanner)Last night, gunmen wounded two people in Flatbush during a string of July 4th shootings that mixed the crackling of fireworks with the firing of bullets, leaving 20 victims injured across the city, say police. At 5:15pm on East 29th street near Beverley Road (not far
Bensonhurst
L&B Spumoni Gardens, Photo by William Caruso/Bensonhurst BeanTwo theories have reportedly emerged among law enforcement officials in the Thursday murder [/breaking-man-shot-dead-dyker-heights/] of Dyker Heights resident and pizza maker Louis Barbati. According to NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce, the beloved owner of Gravesend pizzeria L&B
Police & Fire
Graffiti found near Avenue X and East 2nd Street on June 16. (Photo by Bensonhurst Bean)Police recovered a pistol and spent shell casings Friday morning after gunshots were reported in a Gravesend neighborhood defaced earlier this month by gang graffiti. Officers from the local precinct and the special operations
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/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/1724-16-Assault-76-PDU-5-30-16-video-1.mp4Police have released a photo and surveillance video of a suspect wanted for shooting a man in the head. The incident took place on Monday, May 30 at approximately 6pm in front of the Gowanus Houses at 178 Bond Street (at Wyckoff Street), cops say.
Events
Thousands packed surrounding areas of the iconic Stonewall Inn in the West Village on Monday, June 13. (Photo via francis_ellen [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGoppKSnTZ9/?tagged=stonewall&hl=en])Public Advocate Letitia James will join several other politicians and advocacy groups tonight at Grand Army Plaza [https:
Announcements
Thousands packed surrounding areas of the iconic Stonewall Inn in the West Village on Monday, June 13. (Photo via francis_ellen [https://www.instagram.com/p/BGoppKSnTZ9/?tagged=stonewall&hl=en])Several politicians and advocacy groups will lead a Unity Vigil tonight at Grand Army Plaza [https://www.facebook.
Central Brooklyn
The NYPD is searching for two men wanted for a shooting that occurred outside a Flatbush Avenue hair salon over the weekend. The first suspect allegedly passed a handgun to the second suspect on the street outside 1227 Flatbush Avenue, near Newkirk Avenue, at approximately 3:50am on Sunday, according