The heartbroken family of Evette Jeffrey — the 16-year-old Bronx girl tragically killed by a stray bullet — hopes the teen accused of the fatal shooting spends the rest of his life behind bars. “Give him the fullest extent of the law. He took her away,” Evette’s grandmother told the Daily News Wednesday. “You want … Read more
An ex-con fired at an NYPD car he crashed into on Staten Island as he tried to avoid being stopped for driving with excessively tinted windows, police said Monday. The 31-year-old driver refused to pull over when cops tried to stop his 2009 Nissan Murano on Port Richmond Ave. near Albion Place in Port Richmond … Read more
The family of a 31-year-old man stabbed to death in the Bronx across from Fordham University thought he had joined the Army when he left home months ago — and now are grappling with questions about what sparked the fatal confrontation. Bamba Fode was killed next to a fruit stand on E. Fordham Road near … Read more
The city is planning to put panic buttons linked to the NYPD in about 500 bodegas across the five boroughs, the mayor and police commissioner announced Sunday. Mayor Adams and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the city will allocate $1.6 million through an emergency grant to the United Bodegas of America, as part of the … Read more
A Hatzolah volunteer EMT struck and critically injured a 19-year-old man while responding to a call in Brooklyn, police sources said Sunday. The 39-year-old driver was behind the wheel of a smart car for the ambulance service, going north on McDonald Ave., lights and sirens on, when he struck the pedestrian as he was crossing … Read more
Three men in a white Lexus robbed a man at gunpoint in the Bronx about two blocks away from Yankee Stadium, and took a bag filled with $12,500 cash, police said Sunday. The 53-year-old victim was getting out of his car near Gerard Ave. and E. 157th St. just after 11 a.m. Friday when the … Read more
Slain Harlem man Christopher Jimenez, 36, was gunned down by a teenage shooter due to a street beef among rival drug dealers feuding over territory, prosecutors allege in a newly unveiled criminal complaint. A police officer with the 26th Precinct overheard Jimenez arguing with his 16-year-old killer — a drug dealer known for selling pot … Read more
A fired New York City firefighter charged in the drug-fueled drunk driving death of a Queens airport worker was released from jail Friday — and the victim’s family is livid. Michael Peña, 28, was sent to Rikers Island weeks after cops said he sped his Mercerdes through a red light and t-boned a BMW driven … Read more
Harvey Weinstein accuser Miriam Haley broke down in tears and cursed on the witness stand Friday as a defense lawyer questioned her account of the former Hollywood mogul forcing oral sex on her nearly two decades ago. “He was the one who raped me, not the other way around,” Haley told jurors. “That is for … Read more
A man accused of raping and robbing a corpse in a Manhattan subway car violated the dead body for nearly a half hour — pausing only when the train pulled into stations to let passengers on and off, prosecutors said Tuesday. Victim Jorge Gonzalez, 37, had only been dead for about 30 minutes before Felix … Read more