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Cops arrested two men yesterday suspected of shooting and killing a 24-year-old, chucking their guns in trash can in front of a police precinct, then reporting to police that they were the victims of a shooting. Officers at the 73 Precinct in Brownsville spotted the suspects ditching their firearms inside a garbage can before entering the station house on Thomas Boyland Street just after 6:15 pm.

At a vigil, the family of Malachi Cotton begged for the community's help in finding the 16-year-old's killer. The teen was shot multiple times at a bus stop outside Metropolitan Diploma Plus High in Brownsville, Brooklyn on Monday afternoon. City Councilman Charles Barron added, "If you see something, say something. And all those who don't want to snitch, tell me. I'll snitch. If you're afraid to snitch, I'll snitch. They say snitches get stitches, bring it. You tell me and I'll do the snitching."

Just before the end of the day school bell at a Brownsville middle school yesterday, shots rang out in front of PS 189 when a woman driving by was shot in the face and nearly crashed into the school. The 24-year-old woman is in critical condition at Brookdale Hospital after being ambushed and shot six times by the shooter waiting for her outside the school around 2:30 p.m. Sparkle Jones, a woman who was near the intersection of E 96th Street and East New York Avenue to witness the shooting, told the News, "I heard shots, and the car hit the pole. The blood ran down her face."

An all-night barbeque held by friends leading up to today's West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn turned deadly when shots rang out early this morning and two men were left dead, a third wounded. 25-year-old Marvin Brown and 26-year-old David Harris were fatally shot while hanging out at the party on Chester Street in Brownsville. Brown was shot in the head and killed instantly when the incident took place around 5:45 a.m. Another man was wounded after being shot in the leg and a fourth punched in the face. A woman at the bbq told the News, "The vibe was cool - everybody knows everybody. Everybody's talking and laughing. It was family and friends, and I guess it just got a little out of hand." Friends and family say that there's no way Brown, who had just finished training to be an ambulance driver, could have been the intended target. One buddy said, "There's nothing you couldn't not like about him."

A veteran NYPD officer has been suspended after accidentally firing off his gun outside a Brooklyn biker club. William Powell is a Queens cop who has been on the force for 15 years. The 40-year-old officer was hanging out outside GridLoc Truck Club in Brownsville with friends yesterday around 3 a.m. when his gun went off and shot a hole through a friend's car. Cops arrived on the scene as Powell allegedly barked at them, "Don't f--- with me! I'm on the job." While he was not arrested, the News says that investigators determined that he was too drunk to perform his duties as a police officer—enough to warrant a suspension. Police sources told the News that Powell was "wasted drunk" and that "he'll be lucky to keep his job."

A man in Brownsville was killed on July 4 when he was mistakenly accused of hollering at the girlfriend of another man, who then pulled out a gun and opened fire. Nakie Hector, 30, was walking with his brother Terrence just after 10 p.m. when he was accused of making a pass at the young woman who was walking with her boyfriend. Terrence says that his brother was merely talking loudly into his cell phone. After the brothers tried to squash the beef, they walked away from the spot on Rockaway Boulevard, only to have the boyfriend shoot Nakie Hector three times, one bullet hitting him directly in the heart and killing him. A neighbor said, "I heard fireworks. Then I heard something else that wasn't [fireworks]. It was much louder." Police are still searching for a suspect—Hector's family members claim the gunman was a complete stranger to the victim. On his Facebook page, Hector's friends expressed condolences, one saying, "Sorry, that you had to fall victim to this senseless violence. You will be [missed] my dude." Hector leaves behind a young son.

A Brownsville woman was fatally stabbed yesterday when she tried to break up a fight between two brothers. 43-year-old Vickie Griffin was up "chatting and listening to music" in her home with friends into the early hours of Saturday morning until a spat between two of her guests turned violent. The under five feet Griffin ended up stabbed in the chest when she tried to step in between the fight that had spilled outside her Dumont Avenue home around 5:30 a.m. 30-year-old Abdul Mattocks had initially fled the scene, but later turned himself into police amidst heavy pressure from the community. He was charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter. Griffin leaves behind a 28-year-old daughter and 16-year-old son, who were both sleeping inside. She also had three grandchildren. A friend of hers told the Post, "She'd always be taking people into her home. Kissing and hugging, that was her thing. She was so friendly."

Well, it didn't take long for the Obama Fried Chicken in Brownsville to cave to pressure from politicians and community leaders in dropping the president's name from its title. Manager Mohammad Jabar, a lawyer and university instructor in Bangladesh before moving here in January, announced that the restaurant will now be known as "Popular Fried Chicken." A manager for the Crown Fried Chicken across the street (where they simply have a photograph of the president on their plexiglass divide) said to the Times, "He used the name. He used black people.” There's no word on if the original Obama Fried Chicken will follow suit, but the Times did find an Obama Beauty Salon where they sell Michelle Obama wigs for fifty dollars. An eighteen-year-old woman enjoying a last meal before the name change saw no reason to get rid of the name and said, "Why not? It’s history. All these stereotypes. People got to relax.”

A bit more detail has emerged regarding the Tuesday afternoon shooting of a teen who pointed an unloaded gun at an unidentified rookie NYPD officer in Brownsville. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne tells the Times that 18-year-old Akeem Harvey was stopped by officers for a "stop-and-frisk" because he was "wearing a hat and bandanna in a way that is associated with the Crips gang." When one officer noticed Harvey's bullet holder, he allegedly ran from the cops, but stopped when his revolver dropped out of his pants leg. The NYPD says Harvey picked it up and crouched, pointing the gun at the first officer, who was about five feet away. After Harvey ignored the officer's orders to "Drop it," the cop fired once, striking the teen in the chin. According to the police spokesman, the officer acted within the department’s guidelines; Harvey is listed in stable condition in Brookdale University Hospital.

An unidentified rookie NYPD officer shot 18-year-old Akeem Harvey in the face yesterday after the teen ran from officers during a "stop and frisk" outside a corner store in Brownsville. Police sources tell the Daily News that Harvey "acted nervous and kept adjusting his waistband" when police approached him at approximately 2:30 p.m. near Winthrop Avenue and East 93rd Street. Harvey then bolted and started running toward his home, but the police say he "fumbled" and dropped his .357-magnum revolver (pictured, via MyFox NY).

Two men were shot and killed early Saturday morning at a gathering inside Platinum 181, a banquet hall in Brownsville. The Daily News reports that there was "heavy drinking" before the gunfire that came at just after 4 a.m. yesterday. One man died immediately after being shot in the head, a second 23-year-old man died later at Brookdale Hospital after being shot in the chest. Earlier Friday night, another shooting in Brownsville left three injured, but appears to be unrelated. A 15-year-old and 22-year-old man were in stable condition after being shot in the chest and a 26-year-old man is in critical condition at Brookdale after being shot in the head in the incident that took place around 10 pm. Few other details are available about either shooting. Another shooting in East Flatbush left a man dead on Friday evening and the day before two men in Jamaica, Queens were shot in the head and fatally wounded early Christmas morning.

Two brothers were shot and killed early this morning after melee involving gunshots fired into a crowd caused two plainclothes officers to draw their weapons and fire. Dwayne David and Kayshawne Ford, 22 and 21 respectively, died outside RJ's Place in Brownsville where they had been celebrating following a day spent at Great Adventure. A brawl that broke out involving 30 people as the club was closing for the night led to gunshots fired first just among the crowd and then turned into a shootout with the two cops who intervened. Authorities have not yet revealed if either of the brothers was a shooter, but one was found with a semi-automatic underneath his body. No one else involved in the altercation was injured.

Last night, Shariffe (also known as Lamont) Peebles was shot in the back and left arm. The 13-year-old had been walking home with friends near P.S. 298 when someone in another group opened fire on Glenmore Avenue in Brownsville--as many as five shots were heard. His mother told the Daily News her son didn't know his attackers and aunt Pam Harris said, "They shot him without a motive." Harris also told the Post that her nephew was trying to tell a man sitting on a bench to move from the fire, but the man didn't move quickly enough and the teen was shot. Shariffe is in stable condition at Brookdale University Hospital.

A man who owned a video store Lott Avenue was shot to death in the store, The Whole Nine Yards, yesterday morning. El-Hajj Kareem Shabazz, described by the Daily News as someone "known for forgiving customers...if they were a few dollars short," was confronted by two robbers yesterday morning. An employee "walked in as Shabazz collapsed." One teen remember that Shabazz let youngsters look around, which many shop owners didn't allow, and one neighbor told NY1, "He was a great guy. And it's a shame because they shot three people here last year."

Last night around 8:45 p.m., police officers patrolling in Bedford-Stuyvesant killed a man who fired at them. They had seen the man, per WNBC, "running down the street with a gun in his hand." When they asked him to stop, he fired instead.

The owner of Munchies Bodega in Brownsville Brooklyn, Salah Ahmad, was indicted by a grand jury on assault and other charges for bludgeoning teenager Bunkless Bovian with a hammer. Bovian was placed in a medically induced coma following the incident last month, but has since been released from Brookdale University Hospital.

Surveillance video from Munchies Bodega in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn shows, somewhat fuzzily, the circumstances that led to the bludgeoning of 15-year-old Bunkless Bovian by the store's owner ten days ago. The owner, Salah Ahmad, was charged with felony assault and Bovian was placed in a medically induced coma at Brookdale Hospital after the incident.

A Brooklyn teen was bludgeoned last night by a bodega owner who accused him of stealing from his East New York Ave. store. The 15-year-old, Bunkless Bovian, got into a confrontation that turned physical with Ahmed Solaf, the store's owner, after he was accused of shoplifting. As the two fought, Solaf picked up a hammer and struck the teen in the skull.