
Amanda Woods
Reporter at New York Post
Reporter covering crime and general assignment stories for @NYPost. @CUNYJSchool alumna. Lifelong New Yorker. Firm believer that everyone has a story.
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6 days ago |
nypost.com | Amanda Woods
A 15-year-old Long Island boy enraged over his computer being taken away stabbed his mom, who then played dead while the teen went on to fatally knife Grandma more than 35 times, authorities said Thursday. The teen threw his murderous tantrum while arguing with his 36-year-old mom, Vanessa Chendemi, and 56-year-old grandmother, Concetta Chendemi, in the family’s Selden home the night of April 7, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office.
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6 days ago |
nypost.com | Georgett Roberts |Joe Marino |Amanda Woods
The creep in a “Scary Ghost Face” sweatshirt who raped a woman at knifepoint in Queens was busted this week, police said. Rody R. Morales Cu, 20, was nabbed Tuesday night by the NYPD’s Special Victims Unit in connection to the terrifying 3 a.m. Friday attack on a 50-year-old woman in Jamaica, police said. He was charged with rape and sexual abuse, both in the first degree, according to a criminal complaint. 4 Rody R.
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1 week ago |
nypost.com | Joe Marino |Amanda Woods
A 14-year-old boy with a rap sheet was stabbed in the face steps from the migrant shelter where he lives in the shadow of Times Square Wednesday evening, cops and sources said. The teen was knifed above his left eye just after 7 p.m. at the corner of West 44th Street and Eighth Avenue – down the block from the 1,331-room ROW NYC Hotel which has housed migrants for nearly three years, cops said.
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1 week ago |
nypost.com | Amanda Woods |Desheania Andrews
A 34-year-old Bronx dad who just welcomed a baby son and spent much of his youth in the ring as a promising amateur boxer was gunned down outside an elementary school late Tuesday, cops said. Carlos Teron — who started boxing at only 9 years old and ultimately made his way to an elite amateur tournament — was shot in the head minutes before 11 p.m. on Clinton Avenue near East 178th Street in West Farms, outside P.S. 595 – The Colibrí Community School, according to police and his brother.
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1 week ago |
nypost.com | Amanda Woods |Chris Nesi
The former child star, 39, who appeared in a variety of TV shows and movies including “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Gossip Girl,” was found by her mother on Feb. 26 in her Central Park South apartment. She had undergone a liver transplant in the last year, which sources at the time speculated may have contributed to her death. Some fans had expressed concerns about her health in the months before she died after Instagram posts shared by the actress appeared to show her looking frail and gaunt.
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