A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in connection to a series of attacks on elderly Sheepshead Bay residents on Tuesday, police say. The teen, who has not been named due to his status as a juvenile, was charged Friday with four counts of assault in the incidents, which took place during an approximately four-hour period on Tuesday, Sept. 28. In the first incident, which was captured on surveillance video, a group of three teens including the 14-year-old were walking along East 27th Street when one stopped an 81-year-old man to ask where they …
Suspect sets off firework in Bed-Stuy building, smashes several cars before fleeing the scene
Authorities are looking for a suspect who attached a firework to an apartment door in Bedford-Stuyvesant early Friday morning. Members of the FDNY and NYPD responded to reports of smoke at 446 Madison St. at 7:45 am on Sept. 10, according to authorities, who say firefighters and police officers discovered that someone had set off a high-grade firework inside the apartment building. A preliminary investigation found that the suspect, who authorities would only describe as an unidentified man, also smashed 15 cars with a hatchet before he was stopped by a resident of the building. The suspect also is said to have family inside the unit. He fled the scene on a green dirt bike. The suspect allegedly damaged more than a dozen…
Man struck by driver while lying in roadway in Sunset Park: NYPD
Cops say a driver fatally struck a man who may have been sleeping in a cardboard box under the Gowanus Expressway in Sunset Park last weekend. Officers with Brooklyn’s 72nd Precinct responded to an emergency call about a pedestrian hit by a car on Friday, July 9 at around 10:21 pm on Third Avenue between 52nd and 53rd streets, according to authorities. When they arrived, cops say they found the victim — a 46-year-old man — lying in the…
Inferno injures one and leaves over a dozen homeless in Brownsville
A blaze tore through a Brownsville home on Thursday morning, leaving one a man injured and several more people temporarily homeless, according to the FDNY. Over 100 firefighters rushed to the scene of the fire at 325 Crescent St. at around 5:30 am, where the inferno — exacerbated by the the structure’s wood frames — send black plumes of smoke wafting into the day’s first light as it tore through the building. One man was injured.Photo by Lloyd Mitchell A family was evacuated from the premises, while one man was rushed to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center after suffering smoke inhalation. Residents could do nothing but watch as their home smoldered. “My family is sitting on the sidewalk right now, they are upset …
One dead, three injured, after quadruple stabbing in Sunset Park
A quadruple stabbing in Sunset Park left one man dead and another three injured Friday night. At around 9:21 pm on Feb. 26, police responded to a 911 call of an assault near 57th Street and Seventh Avenue outside of what authorities say appeared to be an illegal gambling operation. When officers arrived, they found three men on the ground, each with stab wounds, after they reportedly tried to rob the establishment. Emergency Medical Services transported all three victims to NYU Langone-Brooklyn, where the oldest victim — a 46-year-old man — was pronounced dead. The other men, ages 39 and 42, sustained non-life threatening injuries and were listed …
Home invaders leave Brooklyn tenant tied up after gunpoint steal: cops
Three crooks who invaded a Brooklyn apartment at gunpoint, tied up a resident and stole his property last week remain at large, police reported. The NYPD on Jan. 15 released video footage of the invaders moments before they busted into a sixth-floor apartment on East 18th Street between Albemarle Road and Tennis Court in Prospect Park South on Jan. 8 at 4:50 pm. The trouble began, law enforcement sources said, moments after an unidentified female suspect delivered food to a 38-year-old man inside the sixth-floor apartment. Then, cops said, two men appeared at the victim’s doorway and knocked. When he …
Cops seek robber who followed woman home in Marine Park, sexually assaulted her
Police are on the hunt for a violent pervert who followed a Marine Park woman home on Thursday night and sexually assaulted her before running off with her phone and cash, authorities say. The victim said that the man followed her back to her apartment building on Avenue N and East 33rd Street at 12:40 am, and made it look like he had a gun before forcing his way into her apartment as she was opening the door. Cops said the dirtbag then tied up the 47-year-old victim using duct tape and zip ties and sexually assaulted her before running off with her cellphone…
Teen arrested for shooting young boy during unofficial J’Ouvert: NYPD
Police arrested a teenager for allegedly shooting a 6-year-old boy, his mother, and three others during an unofficial Caribbean J’Ouvert celebration in Crown Heights on Labor Day Monday. A 15-year-old is facing charges for the shooting and for possession of a weapon, according to District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, who said he will charge the teen as an adult. The teen allegedly fired a barrage of shots shortly before 3 am on Monday, shooting the six-year-old boy, his mother, and three other men in the feet and legs at the intersection of Nostrand Avenue and Crown Street, cops said. The young boy and his mother, 47-year-old Patricia Brathwaite, were rushed to the hospital with non-life…
Two tough guys rob teen, threaten Good Samaritan with gun: cops
A pair of armed robbers who stole a teenager’s property and then pointed a gun at the Good Samaritan who tried to foil the caper remain at large, police said. The NYPD released a photo on April 3 of the suspects wanted for the incident that occurred at 8:50 pm on March 15 in front of an apartment building on Parkside Avenue off Bedford Avenue in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood. According to law enforcement sources, the two crooks approached the 16-year-old …
Hundreds protest police’s use of force in viral Canarsie arrest
Hundreds of protesters rallied outside Canarsie’s 69th Police Precinct on Thursday to demand answers after a viral video captured police officers tackling 20-year-old Fitzroy Gayle to the ground during an arrest for alleged marijuana possession. “We had a rally outside of the precinct calling on the District Attorney of Brooklyn to investigate this heinous kidnapping and assault,” said Rev. Kevin McCall of the Crisis Action Center in Brownsville. Video captured and posted to Twitter Thursday morning showed a plainclothes officer holding Gayle at gunpoint before a swarm of police brutally tackle him to the ground. In the video, …
Drag race leads to multi-car pileup in Park Slope
A six-car pileup in Park Slope that sent five people to the hospital on Thursday night was allegedly caused by an illegal drag race, according to first responders and multiple witnesses. “They were drag racing,â€� said a responding firefighter, who declined to provide his name. Authorities arrived on the scene near Fifth Avenue just before midnight to find several damaged cars scattered in the street and on the sidewalk between Fifth and Sixth streets. Paramedics took five people to nearby Methodist Hospital for treatment of their injuries, according to a Police Department spokesman. Authorities inspect the damage. Witnesses at the location recounted the deafening sound from the accident. “There was a super loud noise …