Officials: Cop Saved By Bulletproof Vest After Shootout In Hempstead
It happened around 3:22 a.m. Friday at the corner of Washington and Cooper streets. A police officer was shot twice, one of the rounds hitting his bulletproof vest.
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It happened around 3:22 a.m. Friday at the corner of Washington and Cooper streets. A police officer was shot twice, one of the rounds hitting his bulletproof vest.
Police say the robber shot his second robbery victim in the torso before demanding money.
The incident took place last Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, at 4:25 p.m. The circumstances of the shooting are sketchy, but the incident itself was caught on surveillance video.
Nineteen-year-old Cesar Delacruz-Almonte of Paterson also faces aggravated assault and weapons charges in connection with the early Sunday shooting.
The NYPD says 18-year-old Eric Norman was shot in the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police are still searching for a suspect wanted in connection to an armed robbery and shooting that happened on Sunday in the Bronx.
The New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers says a man who was found shot to death in a car near Rockaway Park in Queens was a livery cab driver.
Police say 19-year-old Michael Wayman is responsible for the 7 p.m. shooting Wednesday. A bullet grazed the guard in the leg. A nurse was struck in the shoulder.
A 4-year-old boy is in the fight of his young life after he was shot in the chest during a botched robbery in the Bronx. Police said the gunman, identified as 17-year-old Mauricio Acosta, pulled the trigger while trying to steal an old coat that belonged to the boy's father.
A robber approached Det. Michael Morgan as he was talking with a dancer outside the Sunrise Gentlemen's Club in Paterson. Police believe there was a struggle, and Morgan was shot in the side.
Police said the man, believed to be 40- to 50-years-old, was ambushed outside his ground floor apartment on East Meadow Avenue.
"She didn't even think. She stepped in front of those kids and she saved them and she didn't deserve to die like that," said Brownsville resident April Grant.
Attorney Michael Dowd said he is still unsure if Sheehan can use the $1 million bail she already put up for her murder charge or if she must come up with another million.
Police say just before 1 a.m. back on Sept. 20, a man was walking down McClellan Street when another man ran up to him, shot the victim in the thigh and then took off.
Bridgeport police say a Bronx man has died after being shot in the head and crashing his car.
Police say a 16-year-old boy was shot in the left arm while walking with a friend on 129th and Amsterdam Avenue around 8:30 a.m.
Four of the victims were shot in separate incidents, while the fifth was injured in a car crash that apparently was caused by one of the shootings.
The shooting occurred around 4 p.m. at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Linden Boulevard. The officer was taken to Kings County Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The incident took place at 8:25 p.m. Sunday. The NYPD says two patrol officers were notified of a dispute taking place in front of 225 East 45th Street.
Police say they are looking for a gunman who was seen on surveillance video shooting three people in East Harlem.
Burke was well known and respected in his community, residents say. He was shot in the neck sitting outside a barber shop.
Authorities said that around 3 p.m. on September 27, an 18-year-old man was shot 4 times after having a verbal dispute with one of the suspects.
A shooting left one male dead early Saturday morning in the Bronx. Police responded to a 911 call of shots fired at the intersection of Cedar and Sedgwick avenues at 2:21 a.m.
Barry Deloatch, 47, was fatally shot after police chased him into an alley just before 1 a.m. on Throop Avenue, relatives said.
The stray bullet shattered the window of Holly Morrison's second-floor apartment on Atlantic Avenue.
