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View Larger Map Date: Sunday, April 4, 2010, 11:15 p.m. Location: 41 Weirfield St., Bushwick, Brooklyn The police say Shawnde Murphy, 23, of Weirfield Street, was shot outside the above address lat... More >>
View Larger Map DATE: Friday April 2, 2010, 314 p.m. LOCATION: 51-11 Almeda Ave., Far Rockaway, Queens. Joseph Azoro, 25, of Brookhaven Avenue in Queens, was shot and killed Friday evening outside a... More >>
We know crime is up. Now, the question is: Who's to blamer Well, the New York Post editorial page has vetted the field, and the winner is: "see-no-evil judges." (That's Judge Judy at right. We don't ... More >>
The police are saying that they shot a civilian earlier today during a struggle over a handgun in Brooklyn. Three plainclothes anti-crime officers spotted a man who apparently fit the description of a... More >>
Date: March 14, 2008, 8:37 p.m. Location: In front of 1490 Metropolitan Ave., Parkchester, The Bronx. It took just over two years, but the police have arrested a man sought in the 2008 slaying of 19... More >>
Some genius has come up with a new spoof of the Hitler film Downfall, in which Der Fuhrer is cast as a precinct commander forced to go get his head handed to him at one of the NYPD's Compstat meetings... More >>
Remember that guy who was pushed off his bike by a police sergeant in Times Square back in March, 2007, during a Critical Mass bike rider Well, the city has agreed this week to pay cyclist Richard Va... More >>
The NYPD is normally very efficient about posting the latest crime statistics to its website each Monday. But as the crime numbers have gotten worse, the department all of a sudden is getting slower i... More >>
View Larger Map DATE: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 5:10 a.m. LOCATION: The 1 Train at at Varick Street and Houston Street, Lower Manhattan. Well, with all the hubbub over the jump in the murder rate, M... More >>
View Larger Map DATE: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 2:35 a.m. LOCATION: In front of 200 East 165 St., Morrisania, The Bronx. Early Saturday, the police say, a 31-year-old man was stabbed repeatedly in t... More >>
View Larger Map DATE: Sunday, March 28, 2010, 5:30 p.m. LOCATION: In front of 1262 Nelson Ave., Highbridge, The Bronx. A man was shot outside the above address Sunday evening, the police say. He was... More >>
When jail inmates riot, correction officers wearing helmets and carrying shields are called in. They usually put down a disturbance without much resistance. Not so over the weekend in a jail on Rik... More >>
View Larger Map Date: Thursday March 25, 2010, 10:34 p.m. Location: In front of 665 Allerton Ave., Pelham Gardens, The Bronx. The police say a man was found shot outside the above address late Thur... More >>
Following our item yesterday on the 23 percent jump in the murder rate so far this year, the Daily News this morning offered its own take, saying that the number of shootings, and shooting victims, ... More >>
Here in the "Somebody got Murdered" newsroom, we often get eloquent, poignant emails from Voice readers about homicide victims. We can't always reproduce those comments in a separate item. Often, they... More >>
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 12:05 a.m. Location: 41-17 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City, Queens. Three men were shot inside a 5th floor hallway at the above address. One of the victims, a 32-yea... More >>
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 11:00 a.m. Location: 558 50 Street, Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The city Medical Examiner has ruled the death of 67-year-old Maria Torres, of 50th Street in Brooklyn, a... More >>
We're told that the NYPD's elite Emergency Services Unit has been called to the Manhattan side of the Holland Tunnel to chase down a coyote initially spotted in the tunnel. According to the most rec... More >>
At this point, saying that science has yet to directly link 9/11 exposure to the wide range of ailments suffered by Ground Zero workers is like poking a gorilla in the eye with a stick or commanding a... More >>
DATE: Saturday, March 20, 2010, 3:23 a.m. LOCATION: Inside of 820 Colgate Ave., Clasons Point, The Bronx. A 22-month-old toddler, Sanaa Brewington, who lived in a 13th floor apartment at the above ... More >>
DATE: Sunday, March 21, 2010, 5:10 a.m. LOCATION: Inside of 1488 Vyse Ave., Morrisania, The Bronx. A man identified in press reports as David Morales, 30, was shot in the chest early Sunday at the ... More >>
Last Monday, to great fanfare, the city announced a settlement had been reached with ailing Ground Zero workers after some six years of litigation. The settlement would have provided up to $657.5 mill... More >>
DATE: Friday, March, 19, 2010, 10:39 p.m. LOCATION: In front of 397 E 197 St., Bedford Park, The Bronx. Orlando Salgado, 26, of Decatur Street in the Bronx, was stabbed fatally outside the above ad... More >>
DATE: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 4:44 a.m. LOCATION: Beach 6 Street and Seagirt Blvd., Far Rockaway, Queens. Julius Smith, 19, of Thursby Avenue in Queens, was shot at the above intersection early ... More >>
DATE: Saturday, March 20, 2010, 12:38 a.m. LOCATION: 354 Madison St., Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Randell Tyler, 27, of Gates Avenue in Brooklyn, was shot and fatally wounded near the above addre... More >>
