Trial Continues For Rookie NYPD Officer Charged In Shooting Death Of Akai Gurley
Officer Peter Liang is accused of firing his gun in a darkened stairwell at the Pink Houses in East New York back in 2014, killing Akai Gurley.
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Officer Peter Liang is accused of firing his gun in a darkened stairwell at the Pink Houses in East New York back in 2014, killing Akai Gurley.
Officer Peter Liang has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and other charges in connection with the shooting death of 28-year-old Akai Gurley on Nov. 20, 2014.
The capacity crowd in Borough Hall's old courtroom during a City Planning Commission hearing Wednesday was scattered with fliers that read "don't displace me."
An elderly man is standing tall after being violently attacked in front of his Brooklyn home.
Police were seeking to identify a suspect late Friday in the theft of a cellphone from a subway rider in East New York, Brooklyn.
A Brooklyn man faces numerous charges in connection with a hit-and-run crash that claimed the life of a retired NYPD officer and left nine other people injured.
Police shot and wounded a man after he allegedly repeatedly refused their directions in Brooklyn Wednesday.
A rally and vigil will be held Friday on the one-year anniversary of the police shooting death of an unarmed man in a Brooklyn stairwell.
One teenage boy was slashed and another was punched in a fight late Monday at a subway station in East New York, Brooklyn Monday afternoon.
A popular Brooklyn marching band director faces criminal charges after police say he assaulted a student with duct tape.
Investigators said 35-year-old Rafael Veras was stabbed in the torso more than a dozen times as he sat in his car at Shepherd and Dumont avenues in East New York.
Gerald Brooks, 39, was handcuffed behind his back when he shoved an officer to the ground in and ran off.
Gerald Brooks, 39, was being taken to the 73rd Precinct when he escaped police custody around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday in East New York, according to the NYPD.
Authorities late Friday were investigating a fire that left a 10-year-old boy dead in an East New York, Brooklyn public housing development.
The fire started around 9:30 p.m. Thursday at the Pink Houses in East New York.
The police were trying to catch a criminal, but the woman said they roughed up her son, who had been sleeping.
Police were called to the intersection of Shepherd and Dumont avenues in East New York where they found 35-year-old Rafael Veras stabbed multiple times in the front seat of his car.
Tenants at 650 New Jersey Ave. in East New York say their building is a wreck inside and out.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams was among those speaking out Monday against the rash of shootings that took place over the weekend.
No arrests have been made, but police say they are looking for multiple suspects.
Tori Saunders, 22, has been charged with attempted murder of a police officer, attempted murder, robbery, assault, criminal use of a firearm, criminal possession of a firearm, reckless endangerment and reckless driving, police said.
A person was in police custody late Wednesday in connection with the shooting of an off-duty NYPD officer in New Lots, Brooklyn a night earlier, sources told CBS2.
The water main burst underneath Pennsylvania Avenue near Flatlands Avenue in East New York around 3:20 p.m. and sent water soaring as high as 30 feet into the air.
The spate of violence started at 4:30 p.m. Friday in East Flatbush, when police say a teenager shot at two cars on Clarendon Road.
The accident took place at around 10:30 a.m. at Pennsylvania & Cozine Avenues in East New York.
