Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'attack'
May 10, 2008
After doing time for violating probation and assaulting a manicurist, Rapper Foxy Brown found herself in court again yesterday. This time it was for attacking a neighbor with her Blackberry phone, causing the victim a bruised eye and chipped tooth. Brown, who in the past has pleaded guilty and then tried to take it back, pleaded guilty. By doing so, she avoids trial and thus a maximum sentence of seven years behind bars. Instead, a......
Continue Reading "Foxy Pleads Guilty in Phone Fight, Avoids More Jailtime"May 1, 2008
The morning after George Atterbury, general manager of Grayz restaurant on West 54th Street, was interviewed by Eater about his experiences greeting swells at Grayz, he was slashed in the face and stabbed in the abdomen by three men on the East Side. A dining blog curse, or just a random act of violence? Police are now suggesting another possible explanation: mob ties. This isn’t the first time the dapper Atterbury’s been victimized by thugs;......
Continue Reading "Stabbing of Restaurant Greeter May Be Mob Related"April 25, 2008
After showing surveillance images of a man who allegedly sexually attacked a woman for hours before robbing her, police have made an arrest. Emerson Deno, 32, was charged with rape, criminal sex act, burglary, robbery and unlawful imprisonment. Deno followed the victim from the West 191st subway station to her apartment near West 190th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue around 5 p.m. last Friday. When she got to her apartment and started to unlock her......
Continue Reading "Arrest in Washington Heights Sexual Assault"April 24, 2008
The police are looking for two men suspected of robbing an elderly woman at gunpoint on Tuesday afternoon. As the woman entered her apartment on Neptune Avenue, police say two men "forced their way into the apartment, where the tied up the 73-year-old woman at gunpoint before taking her ATM card, pin number and assorted jewelry." Seventy-three-year-old Shirley Rosenstock managed to break free and call the police. The police found that her ATM card......
Continue Reading "Elderly Woman Robbed, Tied Up in Brooklyn Home"April 18, 2008
Earlier in the week, unconfirmed reports of a knife-wielding assailant had Williamsburg residents on edge; South Williamsburg in particular has been flooded with patrolmen all week, and we’ve heard from readers who say they’ve been written summons for minor offenses like jaywalking. Though the 90th Precinct and the NYPD press liaison are unforthcoming about the dragnet, two officers walking their beat by the future Pies ‘n’ Thighs location on Driggs and South 4th Street told......
Continue Reading "Machetes and Knives Out in Williamsburg"April 11, 2008
A 22-year-old Hofstra student was arrested for kidnapping and assaulting a Zeta Beta Tau brother before stranding him on a road. Adam Schelberg was allegedly upset because he thought the victim was dating his ex-girlfriend. Schelberg asked the victim to take a ride in his car and drive him to a Hempstead street corner where four of Schelberg's friends were waiting. Nassau County Detective Raymond Cote said, "Four men approach the car, they open the......
Continue Reading "Hofstra Student and Friends Beat Up Frat Brother "April 8, 2008
The 14-year-old boy held for second-degree manslaughter in the death of a Columbia graduate student appeared in family court yesterday, as lawyers, police officials, and an aunt who cares for him weighed in. A judge assigned the boy, named Sheldon, lawyers and decided he would be tried as a juvenile offender in Family Court. A city Law Department attorney told the court, "This attack was predatory in nature." The boy, named Sheldon, had punched 24-year-old......
Continue Reading "Columbia Student's Teen Killer Appears in Family Court"April 7, 2008
Police say that two teenaged boys led them to the 13- (or 14-) year-old charged with manslaughter in the death of Columbia graduate student Minghui Yu. On Friday night, the teen had punched Yu in the face at a median on Broadway between 122nd and 123rd Streets. After a struggle, Yu managed to escape and ran into the street, only to be fatally hit by a car. The police have not charged the two other......
Continue Reading "Friends Led Police to Teen Involved in Columbia Student's Death"March 20, 2008
In the latest livery cab nightmare, a tipster points us to an incident that occurred on March 12th, when a woman used a car service to get home at night.Last night [name redacted] took Metro Car service home. At our house the driver followed her to our door and groped/molested her. She fought him off and he left. I called Metro Line to let them know what happened and try get a name of the......
Continue Reading "Possibly Fake Livery Cab Driver Attacks in Brooklyn"March 2, 2008
The police are continuing to look for James Gonzalez, who is suspected of fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend at a grocery store as well as stabbing her co-worker. The attack occurred Friday afternoon at the East Village Key Foods location. Gonzalez, 42, who had done some part-time work at the Key Foods where he met 24-year-old Tina Negron and dated her on-and-off for a year up until a few months ago, fled the store on foot.......
Continue Reading "Police Still Looking for Key Foods Stabbing Suspect"February 19, 2008
The man who attacked two women this weekend after picking them up under the guise of being a legit livery cab driver has been arrested. One of Torkieh Sadagheh's victims, Monica Maneiro of Morningside Heights, hailed his car after getting off work at Scores strip club on Saturday night; the 23-year-old recounts what happened next:"Out of nowhere he just stopped the cab and jumped in the back seat. He grabbed me and had his hand......
Continue Reading "Fake Cabbie Arrested, One Victim Speaks Out"January 13, 2008
As the police try to reconstruct the events of Thursday night's mugging attack, a little more information is offered about some of those involved. Subway conductor Maurice Parks was walking home when he was attacked by a group of muggers in Harlem, at West 139th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue late Thursday night. When stabbed, Parks took out his own knife to defend himself. By the end, the police arrested a wounded attacker and another......
Continue Reading "Bystander Killed in Mugging "A Very Astute Young Man,"Jujitsu-Trained Transit Worker Rejected From NYPD Three Times"
January 12, 2008
Yesterday, the story was that a transit worker had been stabbed by four muggers, only to amazingly fight back and stab two of them. One died, one was wounded, another was apprehended, and a fourth was on the loose. But then, as more information was released, it seems that the man who died was not in the group of muggers but a bystander, perhaps even a Good Samaritan trying to help, who was caught......
Continue Reading "Hazy Details About Transit Worker's Mugging, Bystander's Death"January 11, 2008
Whoa: A NYC Transit worker who was walking home in Harlem was attacked by a group of four men. One stabbed him, but 5 train conductor Maurice Parks managed to pull out his own knife and retaliate, stabbing one 28-year-old in the chest and a 22-year-old in the stomach. The four men, who approached the transit worker near 139th and St. Nicholas Avenue, were trying to rob him. The 22-year-old and a 15-year-old attempted......
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