Livery Cab Driver Accused Of Raping 12-Year-Old Girl In Brooklyn
It's a disturbing story in Brooklyn.
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It's a disturbing story in Brooklyn.
One of Brooklyn's largest green spaces looked like a wasteland on Monday.
Police said Christopher Ross, 53, was on the handball court at Lincoln Terrace Park in Crown Heights when he was shot in the head and died.
The victims told police they were standing outside when they heard shots and realized they had been hit.
Drivers of for-hire vehicles in the city are being warned that an armed man is targeting them.
Three of the nation's highest-ranking Catholic leaders, in a recent joint appeal, said Catholic schools "are presently facing their greatest financial crisis" and warned that hundreds more closures are likely without federal support.
Police are trying to identify the man suspected of robbing a woman on a Brooklyn subway.
The man went up to the counter at Munchiez candy store on Lenox Road, pulled out a black firearm, pointed it at the clerk and demanded cigarettes, according to police.
The incident happened around 9 a.m. on July 25.
Friday afternoon, police said she had been located and reunited with her family.
Police said two suspects drove up and opened fire shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday at Regent Place and East 21st Street.
He's accused of holding up seven drivers between July 28 and Aug. 5 in Brooklyn.
In the United States, Black mothers are three times more likely to die in childbirth compared to white mothers. In New York City, that number increases to eight times.
The 59-year-old is charged with sexually assaulting a pre-teen girl on more than on occasion.
The wind from Tropical Storm Isaias caused widespread damage across the five boroughs.
Police say he was captured on surveillance video tampering with an NYPD van.
Surveillance video shows a man running on the sidewalk and opening fire. It happened shortly before 4 p.m. on Ralph Avenue in Brownsville.
In Manhattan, the operators of a party boat were charged with hosting an illegal gathering.
CBS2 has learned that the total so far this year has surpassed the number of shootings in all of last year.
Jahiem Guinn was found fatally shot in front of Weeksville Houses in Crown Heights on July 24.
A nun discovered the box was tampered with while she was sanitizing pews, the church said.
The suspect allegedly brandished a knife, forced the victim into a parked vehicle and drove him to a nearby Chase bank.
Police said he confronted a group of men for assaulting another victim when one of the suspects slashed him below the knee.
Hason Rink told police he shot the first victim because someone paid him to do it and the second because the man had flirted with Rink's girlfriend, authorities said.
A group was gathered to remember 16-year-old Kleimer Mendez and 18-year-old Antonio Villa, who were shot and killed while playing basketball the night before.
