Jan. 3, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen The last month of 2024 was relatively peaceful in Brooklyn, according to the latest NYPD statistics, as reports of major felonies dropped by nearly one-quarter year-over-year. Between Dec. 2-29, 2024, the NYPD recorded 1,817 “major felonies” — murder, rape, robbery, felony assault, burglary, grand larceny, and grand larceny…
Jan. 3, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil Police are looking to identify the suspect wanted in connection to a shooting that occurred Thursday morning near a Fort Greene school. An unknown gunman shot the teen in the abdomen near the corner of Park and North Portland avenues in Fort Greene just before 8:30 a.m.,…
Jan. 2, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell A 17-year-old boy was shot Thursday morning in Brooklyn’s second shooting of the new year. An unknown gunman shot the teen in the abdomen near the corner of Park and North Portland avenues in Fort Greene just before 8:30 a.m., police said, just steps from…
Jan. 2, 2025 By Dean Moses Police have identified the woman who was burned to death aboard a Brooklyn F train in a shocking arson attack last week. Debrina Kawam, 57, was so badly burned it took authorities several weeks to put a name to her body. Sources familiar with the investigation say that…
Jan. 2, 2025 By Adam Daly A 42-year-old man was arrested last month after allegedly attempting to steal copper from a shipyard at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A security guard at GMD Shipyard on Flushing Avenue reported the incident to police around 8 a.m. on Dec. 18, saying the man was seen using tools…
Dec. 31, 2024 By Adam Daly The NYPD is seeking to identify a man accused of mugging a teenager at knifepoint aboard a Q train earlier this month. The incident occurred at 1:20 p.m. on Dec. 14, when a 17-year-old boy was riding a northbound Q train approaching the Sheepshead Bay station. According to…
Dec. 27, 2024 By Ethan Stark-Miller Community advocates gathered at Brooklyn’s Coney Island Stillwell Avenue subway station on Thursday afternoon to mourn a woman who was burned to death in the station on Sunday morning. The prayer vigil, hosted by activist Rev. Kevin McCall, was held to commemorate the yet-to-be-identified woman who died after being set…
Dec. 23, 2024 By Dean Moses The man accused of setting a woman on fire onboard a Brooklyn subway train was charged Monday with first and second-degree murder. Law enforcement sources identified the suspect as Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, 33, was arrested on Sunday after he allegedly walked up to a woman on an F train…
Dec. 17, 2024 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing his grandfather with a machete and wounding two other family members, including his four-year-old niece, during a violent attack inside their Bedford-Stuyvesant home, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Monday. Dayquan Dubose,…
Dec. 17, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell Brooklyn homicide detectives are searching for a suspect who fatally stabbed a man Tuesday morning at a deli in Brownsville. The attack happened just after 6:50 a.m. on Dec. 17 at the Mucho Loca Deli, located at 441 Sutter Ave., according to police. Officers from the 73rd Precinct…