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New video shows suspects wanted in NYC bat attack, police say
NEW YORK - New video shows the suspects who attacked a woman with a baseball bat last week on a New York City street, police say.The video appears to show them walking on a sidewalk, as one talks on the phone. It's unclear if the video was taken before or after the attack.Β NYC bat attack caught on videoPolice said the woman was attacked around 2 p.m. Tuesday on Monroe Street in Lower Manhattan.Β Surveillance video shows her taking her cellphone from her bag when the suspects walk up from behind. One punches her while the other hits her with the baseball...
1 man killed in drive-by shooting in Harlem; police searching for gunman
An investigation is underway after a man was killed in a drive-by shooting in Harlem on Tuesday.Officers responded to Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 118th Street around 1:40 p.m., where they found a male victim with a gunshot wound to the back.Surveillance video obtained by Eyewitness News shows a white Honda traveling eastbound on West 118th Street. As the driver pulls up to the corner of Frederick Douglass Boulevard, shots are fired, sending people scrambling.The vehicle then takes off, but doesn't get far. The vehicle rear ends a van two blocks away.Investigators believe the gunman may have taken off on...
Road rage dispute leaves man stabbed to death near Morris Heights daycare: police sources
A man has died after being stabbed in the chest near a daycare in the Bronx on Tuesday, in what police sources say stemmed from a road rage dispute.The victim was stabbed in the chest in front of 1809 Phelan Pl. in Morris Heights just before 4:30 p.m.He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he later died.Police later identified him as 29-year-old Ronald Gomez-Mesa.Police sources told Eyewitness News that the incident started as a road rage dispute.They say the victim, a driver of one of the vehicles, got into an argument with the female driver of another vehicle,She then...
Chickens found during fire in Bronx basement
HIGHBRIDGE, the Bronx (PIX11) β Authorities responding to a fire in a Bronx building Tuesday morning found caged chickens in the basement, according to officials and video. Firefighters were called to the five-story apartment building at 136 West 170th St. between Nelson and Plimpton avenues at around 11:45 a.m., according to the FDNY. There were [β¦]
NYC store clerk beaten, dragged by shoplifters in brutal caught-on-video clash: βNext thing I knew I was at the hospitalβ
A Bronx convenience store clerk recalled how a pair of shoplifting goons dragged him out onto the sidewalk and beat him unconscious before running off β leaving him bloodied on the ground. Sam Balfour, 63, was behind the counter at the Mobil gas station mart where heβs worked for 13 years when the two thugs walked in shortly after 12:30 a.m. Saturday to rob the store, he told The Post. βI didnβt realize they were together,β Balfour, still shaken from the assault, said Monday. βOne of them came to the counter and asked me if I had Newports. I told him we...
Teen with pellet gun fatally shot by police: Body cam footage released as community calls for accountability
Police say the 13-year-old aimed an object - later identified as a pellet gun - at them before he was fatally shot. The boy's family is now calling for the officers to be "put in jail."
Search Is On For Cruel Man Who Abandoned Neglected Pitbull On Maywood Street
Authorities in Maywood are seeking the identity of the man who was spotted by Good Samaritans abandoning a neglected dog with a large tumor on a local street.A pair of dog owners were out on walks when they noticed the man with his tan and white pittie at Golf Avenue and Stewart Street around 7 p.mβ¦
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