'Absolute Tragedy:' NYPD Mourns Det. Simonsen, Killed By Friendly Fire While Responding To Robbery
Det. Brian Simonsen was shot in the chest around 6 p.m. Tuesday while responding to a botched robbery near in Richmond Hill, Queens.
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Det. Brian Simonsen was shot in the chest around 6 p.m. Tuesday while responding to a botched robbery near in Richmond Hill, Queens.
Sources say the detective was fatally shot in the chest and a sergeant was also shot in the leg near the corner of 120th Street and Atlantic Avenue in Richmond Hill.
Residents in Queens are on edge after police say a man followed a woman and exposed himself to her on a street late night earlier this week.
Police say the driver struck at least six people, one of whom was pronounced dead at the scene.
A man was arrested and charged Thursday after police alleged he made an anti-white remark and splashed a liquid in a 13-year-old girl's face, causing her eyes to burn during an attack in Queens.
The 36-year-old victim told police it happened just after midnight on Friday, on 124th Street and 89th Ave in Richmond Hill. She said two men, one carrying a gun, told her to get out of her car.
The brothers spoke exclusively with CBS2's Valerie Castro about that split decision to take action.
Police say they responded to reports of a collision around Atlantic Avenue and 85th Street around 4:18 am. Upon arrival, officers found a 21-year-old man in the front seat of a vehicle with trauma around his body.
A pair of crooks were caught on camera breaking into a Queens home. The video has linked them to nearly two dozen crimes.
Police are the hunt for a group of young men on bicycles they say have been robbing people in Queens.
A 9-year-old girl was found dead Friday evening in a home in Richmond Hill, Queens, police said.
A man was arrested late Friday and charged with luring a 10-year-old girl with special needs into his car in Queens.
The NYPD is looking for two men who allegedly took $1,400 from a woman in a false transaction of high-priced electronics.
A woman who left a newborn baby inside a nativity scene at a Queens church will not face criminal charges, the Queens District Attorney's office decided late Wednesday.
Three people were struck by a vehicle on a sidewalk in Richmond Hill, Queens late Tuesday afternoon, and one was killed.
The infant suffered skull fractures and lacerations to the brain, liver and spleen, according to Bolcer.
Police late Friday had been questioning a Queens family all day, after a 3-week-old baby boy was found dead in the courtyard of an apartment building.
Mayor Bill de Blasio promoted his plan to boost the performance of struggling schools by providing extra support during a visit to a Queens high school Thursday.
Police released surveillance video Monday of a driver who struck and injured a 63-year-old woman in a hit-and-run accident Richmond Hill, Queens.
Police were searching for two suspects Wednesday in a shooting that left a man dead near the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens.
A man was shot multiple times and killed in broad daylight Tuesday in Queens.
Two men were arrested and charged Monday in a shooting in broad daylight on Christmas Day that left a man dead in Queens.
The victim, according to police, is 20-year-old James Bryant, of Jamaica, Queens.
A subcontractor digging in a Queens yard made an unexpected discovery Tuesday.
A man was shot and wounded Friday evening near the Van Wyck Expressway in Richmond Hill, Queens.
