'Grandma, There's A Fire:' Early Morning Blaze Rips Through Bronx Apartment Building
Officials said the fire started on the first floor and quickly spread to the rest of the building.
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Officials said the fire started on the first floor and quickly spread to the rest of the building.
Adones Betances, 22, has been charged with murder and manslaughter. Police sources said they believe the motive was some kind of dispute over the victim's girlfriend.
It happened around 3:10 p.m. Wednesday in an apartment building on Woodycrest Avenue near West 165th Street.
A man and woman were wounded shortly after 11 p.m. on Maples Avenue.
Police said three men and one woman, ages 22 to 38, were shot but expected to survive.
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Curtis Holley, 36, was shot while walking with his wife Saturday night on East 165th Street and Prospect Avenue, sources say.
The suspect got into the cab, then pointed a razor blade at the 65-year-old driver's neck and demanded money, according to police.
Officers said they found a 36-year-old man on the pavement, unconscious and with a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
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Police said a 32-year-old was shot in the leg, and a 37-year-old was hit in the arm.
The 59-year-old victim was shot around 5 a.m. at Burke Avenue and White Plains Road in the Olinville section, police said.
Police said five men knocked on a 72-year-old woman's door and pushed their way in when she answered.
Officers were sent to Eastchester Playground on Burke Avenue around 1:35 a.m. Saturday for a report that a man had been shot.
Police said they responded to a 911 call and found a 21-year-old man unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the torso.
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The man allegedly entered the woman's apartment, where she ran into the bathroom and closed the door on him.
Det. Michael Smith spent a total of 123 days in the hospital and rehab, including two months on a ventilator.
Police say the parents, Uno and Christopher McDowell, do not have custody of 2-year-old Chi and 4-year-old Cella Rose.
A manhole fire is being blamed for knocking out power to more than 700 customers in Mott Haven.
According to their maternal grandmother, the children's parents were at the house Monday and took the kids in the blink of an eye. They've been missing since.
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The NYPD have identified the victim as 32-year-old Kemar Solomon.
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