Apr. 7, 2025 By Dean Moses Police officers shot and seriously injured a Bensonhurst man who allegedly attacked several children related to him with a meat cleaver and a knife during an apparent mental health crisis on Sunday. NYPD brass called the incident “horrific,” stating that it unfolded at 10:15 a.m. on April 6…
Apr. 3, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen Brooklyn’s violent crime rate dropped in March, according to the latest NYPD data — marking the fourth consecutive month where crime was down year-over-year. In the 28-day period from March 3-31, the overall rate of major felonies — murder, rape, burglary, assault, robbery, grand larceny, and grand larcent…
Mar. 12, 2025 By Dean Moses Police in shot and wounded a man in Flatlands Wednesday afternoon after he allegedly ran at them while armed with a box cutter. According to sources familiar with the incident, detectives came across two men having an argument in front of the Brook Plaza Ambulatory Surgery Center near…
Mar. 7, 2025 By Lloyd Mitchell Brooklyn South detectives and officers from the 63rd Precinct are searching for a suspect in a shooting that left a man critically injured Thursday. Officers responded around 4:54 p.m. to a gas station at East 59th Street and Flatlands Avenue, where they found a 28-year-old man with a…
Feb. 4, 2025 By Lloyd Mitchell A 17-year-old boy was shot near a Brownsville high school on Tuesday morning. Law enforcement sources said the gunfire erupted near the Brooklyn Collegiate Preparatory High School, located at 2021 Bergen St., at around 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 4. Officers from the 73rd Precinct, responding to a call about the…
Jan. 30, 2025 By Lloyd Mitchell The memory of 15-year-old Heath Campbell was honored Wednesday, a day after he was fatally shot in a double shooting at 80 E. 93rd St. in East Flatbush. Campbell was struck by gunfire in the building’s lobby late Tuesday night. As detectives continued to search for the suspect,…
Jan. 9, 2025 By Adam Daly A Bedford-Stuyvesant man has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for fatally shooting a 15-year-old boy at a Bushwick playground in 2018, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Tuesday. Elijah Harris, 25, was sentenced by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Donald on Jan. 7, following his…
Jan. 7, 2025 By Adam Daly The alleged killer of a Canarsie teen has been extradited to Brooklyn from Trinidad and Tobago to face prosecution for the 2021 murder, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced Monday. Anthony Regis-Ash, 24, formerly of Brooklyn, was arraigned on Jan. 6 before Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Donald Leo,…
Jan. 3, 2025 By Kirstyn Brendlen The co-creator of the infamous Bed-Stuy Aquarium was sentenced to prison for attempted murder on Friday. Bed-Stuy resident Hajj Lovick, 48, was convicted after trial last month for shooting a man in the leg outside a Bed-Stuy bar in the summer of 2023. On Jan. 3, he was…
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.,…