Plaque For NYPD Det. Brian Simonsen Unveiled At 102nd Precinct In Queens
The 42-year-old was killed by friendly fire in 2019 while responding to a robbery.
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The 42-year-old was killed by friendly fire in 2019 while responding to a robbery.
Police said a 23-year-old male passenger was killed, and two other passengers were hospitalized in stable condition.
While the focus has turned to the Big Apple's vaccination efforts, COVID-19 remains a real threat.
According to the Queens District Attorney, 57-year-old Jose Claros abused the student from 2013-2018, beginning when the victim was 12 years old.
Video shows thick, black smoke coming from the scene.
Zip code 11419, covering Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park has the highest positivity rate in all of Queens, at 15.81%.
Residents watched in devastation and disbelief as their Richmond Hill apartments went up in flames early Thursday morning.
The video shows an unknown man jump the woman from behind and put a knife to her throat.
After hours of barricading themselves inside a home in Richmond Hill, two men were taken into custody at around 2 a.m. without incident.
It started around 9 p.m. Tuesday when officers got a call about an attempted burglary in Richmond Hill.
The stretch of 101st Avenue between 111th and 123rd streets is filled with Punjabi culture, earning the nickname "Little Punjab."
The family was able to get out safely after the woman's oldest child noticed the smoke.
Authorities arrested 23-year-old Kevin Ramtahal of Queens on Dec. 6.
Police said a man yelling "I'm coming for you" was threatening other people before approaching the frightened teen.
A 14-year-old girl is seriously injured after a frightening incident in Queens.
Police say a man started cursing at the agent before throwing water on his face and shoulder.
The men allegedly struck four times between August 21 and August 28 in the Richmond Hill and South Ozone Park neighborhoods.
Tragedy hit a Queens neighborhood on Sunday morning. Two people -- one of them a child-- were killed in a house fire.
Police found the woman in a bedroom unresponsive with trauma to her neck.
A Queens jury has found a woman guilty of second-degree murder for strangling her 9-year-old stepdaughter in a bathtub after the child was left in her care back in August 2016.
Police may have stumbled onto a unique cold case. Human remains were found buried in a backyard in the Richmond Hill section of Queens.
It happened at around 12:50 p.m. at Atlantic Avenue near the Van Wyck Expressway in Richmond Hill.
Police on Tuesday made a grim discovery in a Queens backyard that sources say may be related to a decades-old investigation.
The 42-year-old was shot and killed in what the department called a tragic case of friendly fire while responding to a robbery last month at a T-Mobile store in Richmond Hill, Queens.
Meanwhile, a memorial grows outside the 102nd Precinct in Richmond Hill, where the 42-year-old detective spent his entire 19-year career.
