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12-year-old shot, 2 other people injured in Queens
No arrests have been made after a 12-year-old girl was shot and two others were injured during a brawl in Jamaica, Queens Wednesday night. FOX 5 NY’s Jessica Formoso spoke with people in the neighborhood about what they saw.
Robber pointed gun at deli worker’s head in Queens store: NYPD
QUEENS VILLAGE, N.Y. (PIX11) — A masked man pointed a gun at a worker’s head before robbing a Queens deli Thursday morning, according to the NYPD. The gunman went into the Quick Stop Deli & Grocery at 223-24 Union Turnpike in Queens Village at around 9:45 a.m. and threatened the worker after demanding money, police […]
Man, 37, repeatedly stabbed after ambushing 2 people with dog on Queens street
The jarring surveillance video provided to 1010 WINS shows the 37-year-old man walking up behind the pair moments before the stabbing at 49th Street and Broadway in Woodside, near NYCHA’s Woodside Houses.
Boy, 15, stabbed in head near Queens school as surge of NYC teen violence continues
A 15-year-old boy was stabbed in the head on a Queens street near his school on Wednesday afternoon amid a wave of violence targeting teens in the Big Apple. The young victim was attacked by a ski mask-wearing assailant moments after leaving August Martin High School around 2:50 p.m., police and sources said. The suspect snuck up on the teen and plunged a knife into his head and shoulder near Guy R Brewer Boulevard and 112th Avenue in South Jamaica, cops and the sources said. NYPD could access shops’ surveillance cameras — in real time — under new plan to combat theft EMTs...
As wildfires rage in Canada, will NYC see another smokepocalypse?
Canadian wildfires have cast a smokey haze over parts of the midwestern US this week — but experts say it’s unlikely that the Big Apple will experience a “smokepocalypse” similar to the one that enveloped the city last summer. New Yorkers are not expected to feel the effects of the nearly 90 wildfires ablaze in British Columbia and Alberta, which have sent smoke this week toward Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin, FOX 5 NY’s Mike Woods said. “It does not look like significant smoke is coming this way,” Woods said. “In fact, it looks like it’s barely making it into upstate New York.” Hundreds...
Hempstead Man Sentenced to 15 Years to Life in Prison for October 2018 Broad Daylight Murder
Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly announced that a Hempstead man was sentenced today to 15 years to life in prison for shooting and killing a Roosevelt man in broad daylight in October 2018. Savonn Dangerfield, 27, pleaded guilty before Judge Meryl Berkowitz on March 7, 2024, to Murder...
Man snatches display with $3,400 worth of NY lotto tickets in Manhattan: NYPD
MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Police are searching for a man who stole around $3,400 worth of lottery tickets from a 7-Eleven on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan last month, according to the NYPD. The theft took place around 6:40 p.m. on April 20, police said. The suspect brandished a knife at an employee before removing a […]
Police investigating after video shows assault on 2 Jewish children in Brooklyn
(New York Jewish Week) – The NYPD’s hate crimes unit is investigating and the Anti-Defamation League expressed alarm after security camera footage appeared to show two Jewish children being assaulted on the street in Williamsburg on Sunday night. The video of the incident, posted by local news account...
Murder conviction vacated for Brooklyn man who served 23-year sentence: ‘It’s bittersweet’
Nearly 30 years after being wrongly arrested for participating in the armed robbery of a lumber yard that left a worker dead, a Brooklyn man’s murder conviction has finally been vacated. Despite insisting on his innocence for decades, Steven Carrington, 56, served 23 years in prison after being found guilty of murder for taking part in the robbery that ended with an employee dead from gunshot ...
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