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An altercation between an Asian American couple from a Manhattan and a woman in a cab began before Danny Lee even took out his cell phone.
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An altercation between an Asian American couple from a Manhattan and a woman in a cab began before Danny Lee even took out his cell phone.
A woman is accused of yelling "Go back to China," at a 25-year-old woman on the East Side.
Investigators said a 53-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man were standing in line for food when an unknown suspect started shooting from outside the restaurant.
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According to police, seven individuals approached a 14-year-old boy who was standing in front of a building and began assaulting him.
Police are still searching for the gunman suspected of killing Gudelia Vallinas, a mother of two, who inadvertently walked into a gunfight in Queens.
Friends say 37-year-old Gudelia Vallinas was a devoted wife and mother of two young kids.
According to police, an 80-year-old man was crossing the street in the crosswalk when the driver of a gray Toyota Tacoma turned onto East 16th Street and struck him.
The woman reportedly got into an argument with the attacker, which led to him pushing her onto the tracks, according to police.
Police say on Dec. 13, around 3 p.m., 52-year-old Luis Vasquez was waiting in line to get inside the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in Morningside Heights when he started shooting into the air.
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Essig, a native New Yorker who was born in Jamaica, Queens, has spent 38 years with the NYPD.
Police spent the morning and afternoon at the corner of 150th Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard in South Ozone Park investigating the vehicle.
New York Civil Liberties Union Director Donna Lieberman says it doesn't go far enough since it only shows matters that resulted in a guilty finding by the police commissioner.
According to police, it happened March 1 at 8:35 p.m. in a deli at White Plains Road and East 216th Street.
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Police said the suspect barricaded himself, his roommate and an unidentified woman in the apartment after opening fire on the responding officers.
Police said a 26-year-old man was also shot, but survived. It's unclear if the victims were targeted, or what led to the violence.
The officer was wounded while responding to a report of a male shot inside of a building at 42 Hawthorne St. in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, just after 9 p.m.
Police said the suspect used the victim's cane to threaten him until he handed over the cash.
Sources told CBS2 the victims are married, but it's unclear if this was a domestic violence incident.
There was a dramatic rescue in the Atlantic, 14 miles south of Jones Beach, on Thursday.
Four people were arrested, and multiple weapons were seized, including a hammer, brass knuckles and an unidentified type of spray.
Yong Zheng, 46, was killed on Feb. 26 after he intervened in what turned out to be a robbery of an illegal gambling den in Sunset Park.
New York City is taking steps to combat hate crimes following a series of random attacks on Asian New Yorkers.
