Caught On Video: Off-Duty NYPD Officer Shoots Carjacking Suspect In Brooklyn
Police said the officer was leaving work, and it's unclear if he was targeted.
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Police said the officer was leaving work, and it's unclear if he was targeted.
By Sunday morning, there were at least seven victims of overnight shootings in Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx.
A Brooklyn baby's home life was uncertain after her foster mother passed away from COVID-19. But the woman's sister selflessly stepped in to help.
Twelve people were hurt after a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus and two other vehicles crashed in Brooklyn on Thursday evening.
The spike in violence is prompting more calls for action from community leaders.
Residents say it's even worse this happened during a pandemic because they're now concerned about traces of COVID-19 in the sewage.
The mayor and the police commissioner are now reacting to that video, which has been viewed millions of times.
Others saw dirty water come up through their sinks and toilets.
Police are tracking five incidents in Canarsie in January alone.
Investigators say one of the scaffold's cables snapped, leaving the men hanging on for dear life.
Two hours later and about two miles away, the vehicle was found abandoned near Linden Boulevard and Georgia Avenue.
Police said the man walked into Canarsie Plaza Pharmacy on Flatlands Avenue shortly after 12:30 p.m. on August 12 and demanded money and prescription drugs.
They happened within the span of about two hours on July 28.
Opening statements will be held Tuesday in the federal trial of an alleged gang member accused of shooting an FBI agent in Brooklyn.
Police said the suspect fired several shots at a vehicle, hitting the 30-year-old male driver multiple times in the leg and the 28-year-old female passenger in the left shoulder.
A woman faces a variety of charges after allegedly hitting and killing a bicyclist in Brooklyn.
The 30-year-old firefighter fell to his death while trying to help two people hurt in a car crash on the Mill Basin Bridge late Sunday night in Brooklyn.
Officials say firefighter Steven Pollard slipped through a gap on the Belt Parkway's Mill Basin Bridge and fell more than 50 feet to his death.
The footage was taken on Flatlands Avenue in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn shortly before the theft around 4 p.m.
Once the flames were out, firefighters discovered the bedridden woman in the basement.
Witnesses tell CBS2 the woman and her six-year-old son were pinned to a fence after two cars collided, causing one of them to jump the curb.
Sources tell CBS2 he allegedly had sex with the student in a school bathroom for longer than a month until the boy told his parents, who then contacted police.
Dozens of family members and community members released balloons in her memory, struggling to comprehend how this could happen or who could have done it.
The incident happened at around 10:30 p.m. Monday at a gas station on Remsen Avenue.
Tajay Richards, of Brooklyn, has been charged in the shooting that happened after a brawl inside a Canarsie Popeyes restaurant spilled onto the street last Monday.
