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Man fatally shot on street steps from Brooklyn home
A man was fatally shot on a Brooklyn street Sunday morning just steps from his home, police said. Donnell Thomas, 37, was hit in the chest on Saint Johns Place near Troy Ave. in Crown Heights — close to his home — about 8:10 a.m., cops said. He was taken by private means to Kings County Hospital, but he could not be saved. “I heard a gunshot,” said a neighbor who was getting ready for church ...
NYC super claims self-defense after alarming video shows him kick tenant down stairs, beat him with wrench
A Manhattan building superintendent has been arrested after he was captured on an alarming video kicking and beating a tenant down two flights of stairs, authorities said. Nick Valentin, 45, was seen kicking a 26-year-old tenant down a flight of stairs around 8 a.m. Saturday at the building on 112th Street near Third Avenue, according to his criminal complaint. Video captured by a doorbell camera and obtained by CBS News showed him picking up a wrench to continue to beat the tenant as he stumbled down another flight of stairs. Valentin was charged with one count of second-degree assault in connection to the...
Dad Daniel Coppola went on driving rampage with daughter in car before making U-turn & ‘killing ex-wife & her boyfriend’
A FATHER drove erratically with his teen daughter in the car before suddenly turning around and allegedly killing his ex-wife and her boyfriend. Daniel Coppola, 50, went on a driving rampage on Wednesday, hitting things and swerving in the streets, said police. The entire time, his 15-year-old daughter was in the car with him and […]
Man Charged with Distribution of 350g of Suspected Cocaine, Per Prosecutor's Office
MORRISTOWN, NJ – A man was charged in Morristown for distributing $27,000 worth of cocaine, according to the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office. Alex Bravo-Castro, 30 years old from Uniondale, NY, was arrested and charged with one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine in an amount of five ounces or more, one count of distribution of cocaine in an amount of five ounces or more, one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine in an amount of five ounces or more, and one count of possession of cocaine.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE FREE TAPINTO.NET NEWSLETTER The...