May. 22, 2025 By Lloyd Mitchell Officials are still investigating the cause of a fire Monday morning that trapped multiple civilians in a Sunset Park building and claimed the life of a man during evacuation. Units responded to 3902 9th Ave. just after 7 a.m. on May 19, where they encountered heavy flames and…
May. 19, 2025 By Lloyd Mitchell & Robert Pozarycki Another double shooting rocked Brooklyn on Sunday night as two people, including a teenager, were shot in a Cypress Hills park. The outburst of gun violence was the borough’s third shooting involving two victims during the weekend. Officers from the 75th Precinct rushed to Highland…
May. 14, 2025 By Meaghan McGoldrick O'Neil A Park Slope man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Tuesday for a 2022 shooting in Sunset Park that left a 20-year-old man seriously injured. The victim was shot twice in the chest after 56-year-old John Carter and his accomplices, searching for a different person,…
May. 2, 2025 By Lloyd Mitchell Fire marshals are investigating the cause of a two-alarm fire that one person in stable condition in Park Slope on Friday. Squad Company 1 and Ladder Company 122 responded shortly before 9 a.m. on May 2 and found heavy fire coming from the third and fourth floors of…
May. 2, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen A Staten Island man who shot at a taxi riding on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in 2023 and struck a pregnant passenger was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Thursday. According to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office, the gunman, 37-year-old Mark Munoz, watched the victims — a 30-year-old…
Apr. 29, 2025 By Lloyd Mitchell A local teenager is fighting for his life after being shot in the head in East Flatbush early Tuesday. The gunfire broke out at 12:19 a.m. on April 29 in the courtyard area of Flatbush Garden Apartments. Officers from the 67th Precinct found the 17-year-old male, whose identity…
Apr. 23, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen & Lloyd Mitchell An all-hands fire burned through multiple buildings and left several homes and businesses damaged in Brownsville on Wednesday morning. The fire broke out in a deli on Newport Street between Saratoga Avenue and East 98th Street just before 10:30 a.m., according to the FDNY. Smoke…
Apr. 22, 2025 By Lloyd Mitchell Brooklyn detectives are searching for the suspect who stabbed a woman Monday afternoon in East Flatbush. The incident occurred around 2:28 p.m. near the intersection of East 94th Street and Clarkson Avenue, within the confines of the 67th Precinct, police said. According to authorities, the suspect approached a…
Apr. 18, 2025 By Gabriele Holtermann Four years after the shooting death of 17-year-old Devonte Lewis, three men have been sentenced to prison, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Thursday. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Matthew Blum sentenced Malachi Simms, 19, to 14 years to life in prison, and Frantzy Alexandre, 20, to 10 years…
Apr. 17, 2025 By Barbara Russo-Lennon The Brooklyn driver accused of killing a mother and her two children in Gravesend last month when she hit them with her car has been indicted for manslaughter, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Miriam Yarimi, 32, was arraigned in Brooklyn Supreme Court on April 16 on charges stemming from the…