Nicholas Williams

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Kerry Burke |Nicholas Williams

A 32-year-old man was savagely killed in a rain of bullets inside a Bronx building Tuesday afternoon, cops said. Police responded to a shooting around 2:43 p.m. inside a building near East. 178th St. and Julio Torres Pl. in the West Farms neighborhood, where they found the victim with multiple gunshot wounds to the back, authorities said. EMS transported the victim to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he died, police said.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Nicholas Williams |Rocco Parascandola

Two men have been charged for shooting an off-duty NYPD cop in the leg during an attempted Queens carjacking. Denzel Brown, 29 and Marvin Dankwah, 26 were charged Monday with attempted murder, criminal possession of a weapon and robbery for the April 27 incident in which the pair confronted a 25-year-old cop on 43rd Ave. and 21st St. in Long Island City at about 6:30 a.m. The officer was grazed in the leg and taken to an area hospital in stable condition, police sources said.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Kerry Burke |Nicholas Williams

An elderly woman who was fatally struck in early April by an unlicensed SUV driver as she crossed a Brooklyn street was a Hasidic Jewish matriarch who fled Russia after World War II on an escape train to Poland, family and police said Wednesday. On April 8 around 8:25 p.m., Taibel Brod — whom family members said was 99 years old — was crossing with a walk signal at the intersection of Brooklyn Ave.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Kerry Burke |Nicholas Williams

An argument between two straphangers turned violent Wednesday afternoon, with one woman stabbed on a Bronx-bound train, authorities said. Cops responded to the assault around 3:42 p.m. p.m. on a northbound D train pulling into the 170th Street station in Highbridge after a 33-year-old woman was stabbed in the left leg by a 28-year-old female passenger, cops said. “It was two women fighting on the train,” an MTA worker told the Daily News following the incident.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Kerry Burke |Nicholas Williams

A heart-wrenching vigil for a beloved teacher who was fatally shot by her boyfriend brought together some 50 family members and coworkers at the young woman’s Bronx home Monday, where mourners shared tears and prayers. Loved ones of Jessica Hoyle, 31, held up balloons and huddled together on the rainy block of her home on Mickle Ave. near Boston Road in Parkchester, where Hoyle was shot in the head April 1. “I don’t know what to do now,” said Hoyle’s devastated mother, Lisa Marie Cabassa, 57.