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Map Shows A Year In Gun Violence Citywide, Including Deaths And Injuries In Fort Greene-Clinton Hill

Image via The Trace.With the proliferation of shootings — some fatal, some not — in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill this year, it doesn’t really come as a surprise to see so many red, yellow, and green arrows on this map [http://www.thetrace.org/2015/12/gun-deaths-interactive-map-2015/] of the

Another Shooting In Fort Greene Leads To Chase And Shoulder Wound For Suspect

Image via NYPD.Some of you heard helicopters flying over the northwest corner of Fort Greene Park on Friday night (December 11) shortly after 8pm and wondered what was going on. Well, as we noted on Facebook, it was an NYPD copter deployed after shots were fired and police chased

Adams And Cumbo Call For State Support For Anti-Gun Violence Programs And Community Programs

Photo by Fort Greene Focus.In the wake of the evening rush-hour shooting death of 16-year-old Armani Hankins [/blog/2015/10/27/17-year-old-killed-by-bullet-to-the-head-in-rush-hour-shootout-at-flatbush-and-dekalb-avenues/] this past Monday, October 26, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Councilmember Laurie Cumbo have issued a call for collaboration between the state, city, and community groups.

Three People Injured In Shooting On Parkside Court, Near Prospect Park: NYPD

Two men and one woman were wounded when gunfire broke out on Parkside Court, near Parkside Avenue, around 2am Saturday morning — one of a series of shootings that occurred during a particularly violent weekend [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/3-people-die-19-wounded-gunshots-ring-city-article-1.2312711] in Brooklyn, and the city, the NYPD said.

Mill Basin Man Shoots Brighton Beach Woman In Head At Glitzy Waldorf-Astoria Wedding

The lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where the incident occurred. Source: Waldorf Astoria Hotel [http://www.waldorfnewyork.com/gallery/photos/]A Mill Basin man fired off a shot during cocktail hour [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/nyregion/wedding-guest-who-discharged-gun-at-waldorf-astoria-faces-charges.html] at a wedding in Manhattan’s prestigious Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

Nakwon Foxworth Convicted Of Shooting Three Cops In Sheepshead Apartment

The man who opened fire on police officers in his Nostrand Avenue apartment [/four-cops-shot-suspect-in-critical-after-standoff-on-nostrand-avenue/] – wounding three of them – was convicted last week, and now faces a maximum sentence of life in prison. Nakon Foxworth, 36, was found guilty on April 1 of two counts of aggravated assault upon a police

BREAKING: Female Shot Near Brighton 6th Street (Updated)

Brighton 5th Court and Brighton 6th Street (Source: Google Maps)Sheepshead Bites received word that a shooting occurred on Brighton 5th Court near Brighton 6th Street, about a block away from William E. Grady High School. Initial reports, pulled from police scanners, indicate that the victim is female. EMS is

Highrise Homicide: Man Found Shot In Head In Hallway Of Coney Island Building

Sea Park Apartments (Source: Google Maps)Cops are investigating an apparent homicide in Coney Island, in which a 23-year-old man was found shot once in the head. The grisly scene unfolded at the Sea Park Apartments at 2980 West 28th Street just after 8:00pm. Cops arrived to find the

Crime Report: Robbery At Gunpoint, Stolen Marvel Comics T-Shirts & Check Fraud

A masked man robbed a 22-year-old man at gunpoint in the Ingersoll Houses on June 4 at 12:40 a.m. He told police that two men had followed him into his apartment building. Fearing for his safety, he left the building, still followed by the two men. The victim

Addressing The Ongoing Violence At Church Avenue & E 18th Street

As you may already know, police at the 70th Precinct have made an arrest [http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/theshack/2014/01/gunfire-erupts-at-brooklyn-subway-station] in yesterday’s shooting inside the Church Avenue B/Q station [/blog/crime/man-shot-near-church-avenue-subway-station], although they tell us they are unable to release the name of the