NJ Man Gets 94 Years For 2 Gang Slayings
Union County prosecutors said Edariel "Riddick" Melendez , whowas a member of the Crips street gang, received a 94-year term.
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Union County prosecutors said Edariel "Riddick" Melendez , whowas a member of the Crips street gang, received a 94-year term.
Police say two cars were shot, their windshields shattered. One man is under arrest and faces numerous charges.
Three men face weapons charges after gunfire erupted in Jersey City early Sunday in an incident that also involved a city police officer.
Authorities said 34-year-old Ahmen Lester was ambushed by gunmen who fired from a passing car at around 1:30 p.m.
The gunfire broke out at around 2 a.m. Saturday outside a bar in Bay Shore.
In Brooklyn, there's a murder case that the victim's family hopes does not become a cold case. They are hoping to keep the investigation alive by offering a reward in hopes that a witness will come forward.
The NYPD says Jacqueline Wesley-Rosa, 49, was arrested Wednesday on murder and criminal possession of a weapon charges.
Police are investigating the shooting of a 55-year-old East New York woman found dead early Wednesday morning on Linwood Street.
Since May, there have been over a dozen shootings or stabbings, plus two murders in Huntington Station.
Authorities said they found a 21-year-old woman shot around 3:30 a.m. Monday. The victim, from Virginia Beach, was shot 3 times – including twice in torso and once in the leg.
Nassau County police were looking for the gunman Monday.
Four members of the Shomrim, a Jewish community patrol group, were shot during a struggle to wrestle a gun from a man they say was exposing himself to children.
A 10-year-old Brooklyn boy was watching television when the real world intruded.
There was chaos on the streets of Brooklyn Monday following a robbery attempt, shootout and carjacking.
Police said the shootings in St. James Park in the Fordham Manor section left a 20 year-old man dead and a teenage boy wounded.
A judge declared a mistrial in the case of Robert Robar. Authorities had charged the 53-year-old bus driver from Valley Stream after the November shooting of another hunter.
Authorities say the third exchange of gunfire in four years between two men has left one of them dead.
The funeral for two of the victims killed in a mass shooting in Buffalo turned into a spirited fund-raiser, with religious leaders and members of the community lining up to contribute to a reward fund for information leading police to the gunman.
A Long Island store owner was shot in the stoamch and police are investigating if he was the victim of an armed robbery or deliberately targeted.
A man at the center of a chaotic and deadly police shootout in Harlem last week has been arrested.
Prosecutors made an abrupt about face in this weekend's deadly shooting rampage in Buffalo.
There's heartbreak and outrage in the Bronx Saturday night after a teenaged boy was killed in a drive-by shooting while visiting relatives – and it's believed the boy wasn't the intended target.
Police say eight people have been shot, four fatally, outside a restaurant in Buffalo.
The Bronx man killed in a controversial police shooting will be laid to rest Saturday.
