Officials: 7 Homicides In Jersey City In Last 5 Weeks
A Jersey City man was shot and killed on a city street Tuesday, making him the seventh person killed in the city in the past five weeks.
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A Jersey City man was shot and killed on a city street Tuesday, making him the seventh person killed in the city in the past five weeks.
An Essex County, N.J., correction officer shot and wounded two teens who allegedly tried to rob him in Newark early Monday, authorities said.
Officers arrived around 4:05 a.m. Saturday to the scene of a shooting in front of 1198 Fulton St. in Brooklyn, police said.
A 34-year-old homeless woman has been arrested and charged in a shooting that killed another woman outside the Lincoln Houses in Harlem this week.
Police have arrested a suspect in the July 4 shooting of an NYPD officer at the Cypress Hills Houses in Brooklyn.
A woman has died after gunfire rang out at the Lincoln Houses public housing development in East Harlem Tuesday – just two days after six Democratic mayoral candidates spent the night in the complex.
The gunman who first killed a man, and then wounded a police officer while trying to evade capture, was sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday.
Davis brought political rival Othniel Askew to a council meeting at City Hall on July 23, 2003, and then was shot dead by the man in front of schoolchildren and a chamber full of government leaders.
The suspect has been identified as 23-year-old Curtis Peterson. Police said Peterson was with a group of men Saturday when he allegedly approached the victims, pulled out a gun and starting shooting.
The suspect was described as black male, dressed in all black, and wearing a ski mask. He allegedly stepped out of a tan or brown, four-door, sedan driven by a heavy-set black female and opened fire on the teens before getting back in the car and escaping in an unknown direction.
Five people were shot near a ballfield in Bushwick just after 2:00 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of Knickerbocker Avenue and Menahan Streets.
The hunt is on for two men following a police-pursuit and shooting in Newark this morning.
Acting Prosecutor Andrew Carey says police responding to a 911 call found 19-year-old Eduardo Mendez outside a home in the 200 block of Talmadge Street. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
A Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on Saturday night.
New surveillance images surfaced on Saturday of three men wanted in connection with the murder of an IHOP manager in Newark in March.
The sentencing of a man killing his ex-wife and her mother in Norwalk, Conn., was delayed this week so that victims' family members can speak at the hearing.
A man and two women were shot and wounded early Saturday in the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens section of Brooklyn.
It was nearly 10 years ago – July 23, 2003 – when Brooklyn City Councilman James Davis brought a political rival to a council meeting at City Hall, and then was shot dead by the man in front of schoolchildren and a chamber full of government leaders.
Dante Cespedes, 40, was shot and killed by police around 2 a.m. at his Lake Street home, according to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.
Officer Jamil Sarwar was hit in the leg shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday night at the Cypress Hills houses in East New York.
A man was shot and killed early Sunday in Harlem.
Jett Higham, 18, the son of a Broadway costume designer had been in Richmond, Va for six days when he was gunned down, allegedly over $4 and an iPhone.
Mario Lopez, 18, of Brooklyn was found dead at the scene of the shooting on Marcy Avenue, in front of the Marcy Houses with gunshot wounds to his torso.
All three victims were taken to a hospital and were still being treated Saturday night, but none of the injuries were considered life-threatening.
A New York Police Department officer has been shot in the leg in an incident in Brooklyn. Authorities say the injury is not life-threatening.
