Brooklyn, NY Crime & Safety

A teen has been arrested in the broad-daylight shooting death of a Los Angeles-based drill rapper at a Bronx pharmacy earlier this month, authorities say.  River Jones, 18, was picked up by investigators Wednesday at a dorm building on the Monroe College campus in New Rochelle in Westchester County and faces a top charge of second-degree murder in the June 9 slaying of 27-year-old rapper Avanti Frowner, police and prosecutors said. Jones was one of the suspects who allegedly beat and robbed Frowner — aka Money Gang Vontae – just before 3:45 p.m. inside Amazing Pharmacy at 595 E. Tremont Ave., according...

Two people were killed in separate shootings in Brooklyn overnight, police said. In the latest deadly incident, a 16-year-old male was fatally shot in the torso at about 3:15 a.m. Saturday near the corner of Sutter Avenue and Osborn Street in Brownsville, authorities said. EMS transported the “unconscious and unresponsive” teen to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, cops said. There are no arrests. At about 9:20 p.m. Friday, a 43-year-old man was found shot multiple times in the chest in the vicinity of the 1700 block of Carroll Street, near Crown Street in the Weeksville section, police said. EMS transported the mortally wounded victim to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. There are no arrests.

The aunt of the teenage subway surfer left clinging to life after hitting his head in Queens said Friday that her nephew is “a good kid” who was simply doing “what kids do.”  The 15-year-old boy was riding on top of a northbound No. 7 train car inside the 111th Street station in North Corona around 6:30 p.m. Thursday when police believe he struck his head on an unknown object.  The impact left the teen’s head bleeding profusely, and he was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital in critical condition. The high school freshman had just emerged from one of two surgeries Friday, said...

Click here to read the full article. Police in California are investigating a Macy’s smash-and-grab robbery Saturday morning after three suspects stole high-end watches before fleeing the scene. The Walnut Creek Police Department (WCPD) outside San Francisco said three Black male adult suspects wearing hooded sweatshirts and masks entered the store located in the town’s Broadway Plaza shopping center at approximately 10:48 a.m., when they began smashing jewelry display cases with hammers. The suspects stole the valuables and fled the scene in a white four-door Honda sedan. The WCPD is still searching for the three men. No employees or shoppers were injured during...

A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot early Saturday during a clash at a Brooklyn street corner, police said. Cops responding to a call of a person shot around 3:15 a.m. found the victim sprawled out on the street outside Brownsville’s Langston Hughes NYCHA housing complex near Sutter Ave. and Osborn St. The teen had been shot once in the torso, cops said. EMS rushed him to Brookdale Hospital, ...

A gunman opened fire Friday on a man on a Brooklyn street, killing him, police said. The 43-year-old victim was on Carroll St. near Rochester Ave. in Crown Heights, a short distance from Lincoln Terrace/Arthur S. Sommers Park, at about 9:20 p.m. when the gunman pulled a gun and started blasting away. The victim was hit multiple times in the chest. EMS rushed him to Kings County Hospital, where ...

A homeless man was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing the street in East New York, Brooklyn, police said. Witnesses told authorities that an unidentified man in his 60s was pushing a shopping cart along 108th Street, near Stanley Avenue shortly after 4 a.m. Saturday when he was mowed down by an unknown driver traveling northbound on 108th Street, cops said. The hit-and-run driver sped off and the victim was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. There are no arrests.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The 18-year-old New Brighton resident accused of shooting and critically wounding a victim outside a Tompkinsville deli on Tuesday was arraigned Friday on attempted murder and other charges. Naquan Brooks shot a 22-year-old man in the head just after 5:50 p.m. in front of 35...

The family of the brothers who drowned in a Bayonne school's swimming pool have taken the first step in filing a $100 million lawsuit. Jack Jiang, 16, and 19-year-old Chu Ming Zheng, a freshman at the University of Miami, drowned while swimming at the Lincoln Community School on June 8.

NEW YORK -- The NYPD said Friday a detective hurt during a stray-bullet shooting in Brooklyn was hit by shattered glass. Sunjay Verma was driving a marked patrol car Thursday when gunfire erupted on Legion Street near Pitkin Avenue in Brownsville. Police said the shooter was on a sidewalk and fired at a passing car, but hit the driver's side window of the patrol car.Sources said ballistic panels that should have reinforced the window were removed.The shooter is still at large, according to police. 

A Long Island CVS employee was charged with alleged assault after attacking two other employees and threatening them with a knife while working. The incident took place in Valley Stream around 3:45 p.m., Thursday, June 23 at the store located at 44 North Central Ave. According to detectives, officers responded...

Police discovered the bodies of two women and one man inside the home on 155 Street in South Jamaica.

NEW YORK - A Queens woman faces several charges after an incident at a Long Island CVS store. Nassau County Police say that Jennifer Miles, 28, was involved in a dispute with store employees at a Valley Stream CVS store on Thursday afternoon. Officers responded to CVS located at 44...

Homicide detectives are investigating two separate Brooklyn shootings between Friday night and Saturday morning that left a 16-year-old boy and a 43-year-old man dead. Police said the teenager was gunned down outside of P.S. 284, near the corner of Sutter Avenue and Osborn Street, in Brownsville at about 3:17 a.m. on June 25.

Police officers have a vested interest in keeping illegal guns off the streets, a difficult-enough task already. Now the United States Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen has found unconstitutional the New York law that strictly limited who could carry a firearm in public in the nation’s largest metropolis. At one blow, this ruling ends a restriction that has for decades helped hold down the number of guns in private hands in New York City. The Court’s decision has made the job of the New York Police Department much harder overnight.

A teenage boy was found shot to death in Brooklyn early Saturday morning in front of a Brooklyn NYCHA complex and police are searching for a suspect.

A driver was hospitalized following an afternoon crash at a busy Paramus intersection.A Honda Accord slammed into the victim's Nissan Murano at the corner of Paramus Road and West Ridgewood Avenue around 2:15 p.m. Friday.Paramus firefighters and EMS workers extricated the victim, who was taken by t…

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman says based on an initial analysis, at least one of the devices was meant to cause harm to multiple people.

NEW YORK -- Police are investigating after a woman was attacked and robbed at a Bronx subway station.Investigators say around 12:30 p.m. Thursday, a 19-year-old woman was slashed on her chin and arm at the Parkchester station.Police say the suspect also stole her phone and necklace.The victim is now recovering at a hospital.No arrests have been made.