East Harlem Elevator Mugger Strikes For The Eighth Time This Week
A 57-year-old man was attacked on Saturday morning, according to investigators, he was the mugger's eighth victim. Police have released surveillance video of the suspect.
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A 57-year-old man was attacked on Saturday morning, according to investigators, he was the mugger's eighth victim. Police have released surveillance video of the suspect.
The tragedies underground continue. One man was killed and another was injured Tuesday night when they were involved in accidents involving separate trains inside an East Harlem train station.
The man suffered a fractured leg in the incident and was taken to Harlem Hospital where he was listed in critical condition.
The 26-year-old suspect was involved in a road rage incident with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus driver shortly before 8 p.m., police said.
Pugilist Hector "Macho" Camacho lived his life fast and furious in and out of the ring, and on Saturday morning, a large crowd was expected to fill the streets of East Harlem to remember him.
Camacho was left unconscious and brain-dead after being shot in the face the Tuesday before Thanksgiving while sitting in a car in Puerto Rico.
Boxer Hector "Macho" Camacho, who grew up in East Harlem, has died after being taken off life support in Puerto Rico.
A man has been charged with stabbing a man and woman – leaving the woman dead – and starting a fire in their apartment in East Harlem.
Three people were in custody – two of them with serious injuries – after a crash involving a group of people wanted by police early Saturday in East Harlem.
Bakary Camara, 42, pleaded guilty to all counts including murder, predatory sex assault and rape in connection with the death of 37-year-old Rita Morelli, prosecutors said.
More than 110 guns are off the streets of New York City in what authorities are calling the largest seizure of illegal firearms in Manhattan in recent history.
Around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, the suspect grabbed a 31-year-old woman in the lobby of her apartment building, put her a choke hold and then walked her at gunpoint to an ATM, police said.
The NYPD is asking the public for assistance in locating two men who are wanted in connection with a sexual assault in East Harlem on Thursday morning.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said an open air drug market has been effectively closed down.
The family of Joel Morales said the boy hanged himself Tuesday night because he had been intensely picked on by other students.
Joel Morales was found dead by his mother inside their apartment at the Jefferson Houses at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. The boy hanged himself in the bathroom. For those who knew and loved the child, it's all too hard to believe.
Doctors said the knife penetrated his temple and went through his skull and into his brain, but narrowly missed vitals areas and a main artery. "I'm just happy that I'm alive," Loor said today.
Do you want to help fight prescription drug abuse and the deadly consequences like the recent rash of pharmacy shootings? Well, Saturday was the day to do it. And all you had to do was check your medicine cabinet.
Kenneth Minor has always insisted he is not a murderer, but he's serving a 20-year sentence because a jury said he killed Locker, an author and motivational speaker.
Doctors said that though the knife went into his brain, it narrowly missed vitals areas and a main artery.
Cops are still searching for a suspect who they said was able to escape during a wild shootout after he and another suspect tried to rob a pharmacy in East Harlem.
One suspect was killed Thursday morning during a shooting at an East Harlem pharmacy, police said. Surveillance video obtained exclusively by CBS 2 showed the chaotic scene.
The husband of the woman critically injured by a falling shopping cart in East Harlem last year said he never wants to see the chilling video of the incident.
The worker was buried up to his waist in dirt and mud. He was freed after being trapped for about an hour and taken to Harlem Hospital in serious condition.
Fernando Mateo, spokesman for the Federation of Taxi Drivers, said the incident that left two men seriously injured Monday night stems from a rivalry between legal and illegal livery drivers.
