A 5-year-old boy accompanying his mother to the deli was shot in the leg in the Bronx. The pair, who just bought milk, were walking on Allerton Avenue at 10 p.m. and apparently got caught in gang crossfire. more ›

Over the weekend, a Long Island City woman was shot and killed the night of her 27th birthday party. Tara Webb's boyfriend, Terrell Carmichael, was also shot twice in the chest, but survived. Police initially suspected that Carmichael might have tired a murder-suicide, but yesterday, it was revealed that the shooter was actually Webb's sister, Melanie Webb. more ›

An elderly woman taking a walk outside her building was killed by a stray bullet yesterday afternoon in Brooklyn. Witnesses tell WCBS 2 that they saw 87-year-old Anna Surman "feeding cats in the courtyard at Surfside Gardens, where two of the buildings house seniors." The Daily News reports that Surman was hit around 4:50 p.m: "'Me shot, me shot. Someone shot me,' Surman screamed, recalled Neyla Andreyeva, 71, a neighbor. Bleeding heavily from a wound to her neck, Surman collapsed on the concrete and was taken to Lutheran Medical Center, where she died a short time later." Residents are upset with the growing violence, with one telling the NY1, "Another day out here I guess. There's been several shootings happening for the past week, three days out of the week. It's happened like almost everyday," while a community activist told WCBS 2, "We don't understand all the nonsense that is going on with the guns, but it really needs to come to a close." The police, who will be reviewing surveillance footage, seek two gunmen who were spotted fleeing the area. more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a Brooklyn teenager was shot while entering her Brooklyn apartment building. According to the Daily News, the 17-year-old was "shot once in the back by a gunman aiming for another man...The thug was trying to shoot a young man running inside 3023 Avenue X, part of the Nostrand Houses, when the .22-caliber bullet struck the 17-year-old girl outside her first-floor apartment door." Friends say she was returning home from the store and that she is a student at Sheepshead Bay High School (which is across the street). Her injuries are not life-threatening. And, early on Sunday morning, a man fired into a crowd on a Bronx street; one person was injured and the shooter is still at large. more ›

Yesterday afternoon, around 4 p.m., a 63-year-old woman was shot in the leg near 112th Street and Third Avenue. WABC 7 reports, "Police say the 63-year-old victim was shot once in the leg by a bullet intended for another target." While the victim did not have life-threatening injuries, unfortunately daylight shootings with bystanders caught in the crossfire are not uncommon: Last month, two 60-something women were shot when they stepped out of a building on St. Nicholas Avenue and West 113th. more ›

The family of Carol Simon is grieving after she was killed while walking on Eastern Parkway near Bedford around 5:30PM on Saturday. Simon, a 35-year-old nurse's assistant, had been on her way to take her son to swimming lessons when an argument between two men became violent and one pulled out a gun. more ›