nyc crime

Three suspects in a recent Queens attempted murder had been hanging out right before the incident in a community anti-violence center just one block away from where they shot and wounded a teen, according to police. Police investigating the attempted murder of a teenager searched the offices of a Jamaica-based anti-violence group for evidence on … Read more

A brazen thief stole an elderly woman’s shopping cart that contained $40,000 in cashier’s checks on Wednesday in the Bronx, police said. The 85-year-old woman was approached by an unidentified man around noon on Marion Ave. and E. 195th St. in Fordham, where the thief snatched her shopping cart, which contained an Apple iPhone and … Read more

A homeless man shoved a 23-year-old woman into the side of a train as it pulled into a Washington Heights station Monday morning in the city’s latest unprovoked subway attack, the NYPD said. The victim apparently never saw her attacker, identified by police as 26-year-old Markeese Brazelis,  who came up and pushed her as an uptown … Read more

Two young men were stabbed, one fatally, on a Lower East Side street, cops said Saturday. Amir Smith, 20, was stabbed in the chest on Norfolk St. near Broome St. about 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, cops said. Cops found a second victim, a 19-year-old man, with multiple stab wounds to his back, near  Delancey and … Read more

A 51-year-old man was shot to death on a residential Queens street, cops said Sunday. Sherman Walker was shot in the neck, abdomen and left leg near Murdock Ave. and 204th St. in St. Albans about 6 p.m. Saturday, police said. A man was fatally shot near Murdock Ave. and 204th St. in Queens. (Theodore … Read more

The Brooklyn DA’s Conviction Review Unit exonerated its 40th defendant, a murder suspect so desperate to avoid returning to prison for a crime he did not commit that he accepted a plea deal that kept him out of jail. Keith Roberts, 67, spent eight years in prison for murder before accepting a plea deal in … Read more