[Video Update Below] An 8-year-old was shot in the shoulder last night by a gunman on a bike in the Bronx. The boy, whose name hasn't been released, was standing with a group in front of Papa Yala’s Deli on Randall Ave. near St. Lawrence Ave. in Soundview just before 8 p.m. Police believe the boy was not the intended target of the shooter, who rode past on a bike and shot into the crowd. “Two boys were fighting. The other boy didn’t want to fight so one of them pulled out a gun,” a witness told the Daily News. “The next thing you know a boy was shot outside the store.” more ›

For the third time in a week, an NYPD officer has shot and killed a suspect. Yesterday an unidentified officer killed 18-year-old Ramarley Graham with a single bullet to the chest. The officer, a member of the narcotics unit, had chased Graham into his home, seen him flush something down a toilet and reportedly saw him make "furtive" movements, apparently prompting the cop to fire. Graham—who lived with his mother, grandmother and 6-year-old brother—was immediately mourned by family and neighbors. "Nobody deserves to get shot like that, in your own house," his bereaved mother, Constance Malcolm, cried to reporters. more ›

A woman pregnant with twins has been arrested and accused of fatally stabbing her boyfriend after they fought in her Washington Heights apartment early yesterday morning. Kelly Lopez-Roldan, 22, was arrested for the murder of 24-year-old Antoine Scott. He was found with stab wounds to his chest shortly before 2:30 a.m. at 450 W. 164th Street. And sources tell the Post that Lopez-Roldan plans to argue she committed the act in self-defense. more ›

A Bronx nightclub bouncer was fatally shot early this morning, allegedly by a patron who he had kicked out earlier. According to witnesses, the gunman was one of four men who were kicked out of the Pit Lounge on White Plains Road in Soundview by the 26-year-old bouncer after they got into a fight last night. “I said, ‘They’re gonna come back with a gun, I know it,' " Louie, a clubgoer who declined to give his last name, told the News. “And sure enough, they did.” more ›

A 68-year-old woman carrying her groceries was fatally struck by a white Dodge Charger as she was crossing 93rd and Columbus Avenue yesterday afternoon. Margaret Fischer was reportedly not in the crosswalk, but was mowed down by the car. She was quickly rushed to the hospital, where she died. One witness told the Post, “She was laying there like a ragdoll. All of her groceries were all over the street and her shows were knocked off." A Good Samaritan chased down driver 24-year-old Jessica Altruz, who fled the scene. Altruz reportedly yelled (or sobbed) at the scene, "It was my light!" more ›

As suspected, the Long Island driver who fatally struck a 15-year-old Hamptons Bay teen last year was sentenced to six months in jail. Caroline Goss, who had her 6-year-old son in the car and a 0.13 blood alcohol level at the time of the incident, agreed to the plea deal from the Suffolk County DA's office. But the victim's mother feels that prosecutors are "basically blaming the victim." more ›

Earlier this morning Brownstoner posted some photos of the aftermath of a motorcycle accident on Atlantic Avenue and Hoyt Street in Boerum Hill. Now the Daily News provides some more details, confirming original reports that the driver was killed. more ›

Cops are looking for a driver who fled the scene of a fatal car crash—which left another driver "burned beyond recognition"—early Sunday morning. The chain reaction crash allegedly started when a blue Dodge Caravan with Missouri plates crashed into a Ford Taurus taxi, sending the two careening into two parked cars before a tree fell on them and they burst into flames. One local told the Daily News, "I heard a cop say, 'Who saw the guy in the blue van run?'" more ›

Today in court a former top crane inspector, arrested when crane collapses killed nine in 2008, is expected to plead guilty to accepting bribes. Collecting $10,000 over eight years, James Delayo didn't just doctor inspections, he's accused of skipping them altogether. However, the Daily News reports that charges against him involve "smaller mobile cranes," not the towering machines that fell two years ago on the Upper East Side and in Midtown. more ›

A Bronx dad was shot dead after telling a neighbor to keep quiet so his family could get some sleep. David Morales was on the phone with his nephew Louie Garcia complaining about the noise, when around 5 a.m. he suddenly went silent. "I heard him trying to breathe over the phone—gasping," said Garcia. "He couldn't talk." He hung up and called back, but instead of Morales a neighbor answered, telling him his uncle had been shot, reports the News. "He felt very cold," said a cousin who rushed to the scene. "It felt like a sponge—it wasn't even stiff. I realized he had taken his last breath." The noisy neighbor and alleged killer—a Panama native and former seaman—fled the scene, but later turned himself in. more ›

In the Bronx a heroic dad of two young girls was stabbed to death by a group of vicious teens Friday night, while attempting to protect the 16-year-old son of a friend. The teen had been involved in an altercation between two rival groups earlier in the day, and after night fell prowlers came back looking for him. “I’ll hang with you,” 26-year-old Orlando Salgado told the teen, according to the AP, but the thugs stabbed him twice and ran. "For saving his life, we're going to take yours now," one of the attackers allegedly told him. more ›

Investigators think they've solved the mystery of the missing manhole cover that should have kept a LI teen from falling to his death on Sunday. Half the lid was removed by a worker from a neighboring pizza parlor, who tried to save Amiri Zeqiri. The rest has now been extracted from the cesspool 20 feet below, using a giant red magnet. Officials told Newsday that "the cover was in place and in some kind of shape that . . . when he stepped on it, it broke apart and he fell in." Zeqiri, who worked at Dunkin Donuts, was taking trash to the dumpster when he fell into the sewage pipe. more ›

The Long Island teen whose cesspool death made headlines yesterday spoke to his 14-year-old cousin as he tried to stay afloat. "I think I broke my arm. I feel blood running," he said, I don't wanna let go. I don't wanna let go.'" Ameri Zequiri was taking out the trash behind the Smithtown Dunkin Donuts where he worked when he stepped into an uncovered manhole and fell 20 feet. more ›

On Friday night gunmen were firing all over the city. Police reported three fatal shootings over the course of just five hours, the first stemming from an argument at a Crown Heights party. Ahmed Hoyt, a 31-year-old from Queens, was out in Brooklyn when a fight inside the Troy Avenue apartment was taken to the sidewalk. He was shot in the head at 10:26 p.m, reports the Post. Back in Queens 22-year-old Kalif Canady was also shot in the head, but he was close to home, police say. At 1:17 a.m. he was at his car near the Astoria Houses, when he met his killer and his maker. The last shooting of the night was Kevin Grant, also 22. He was shot and killed during a 3:30 a.m. bar fight on White Plains Road in the Bronx. more ›

One of Borough Park's Yeshiva school buses struck and killed a young Orthodox boy today, after he slipped and fell on an icy patch of pavement. Different sources have reported his age to be either 4 or 7, but according to one witness he was tiny. "The child was so small," said Rocco Botta, who who was working on a construction site nearby. "The person who hit him may have thought it was snow and just kept going." more ›

Cops have arrested a 17-year-old in connection with the killing of Brooklyn security guard Anthony Blair, who died Sunday on Atlantic Avenue. Alexander Singh, Blair's stepson and housemate, is in custody for the early morning neck stabbing of the 44-year-old Guyanese immigrant, reports the Daily News. According to a source the two men, who lived in Bed-Stuy, quarreled about Singh's mother before Blair was found dead near a Getty gas station. more ›

Last night a fire killed a woman at the Harlem apartment complex that's home to many politicians including Gov. Paterson and Rep. Charles Rangel. Firefighters found the 50-year-old victim lying dead on the bathroom floor of her 16th floor apartment, according to the Daily News. They said she was hard to reach because her living space was cluttered with junk, what they called "Collyers' mansion" conditions (referring to the famous booby-trapped Harlem house where two pack-rat brothers died among over 100 tons of stuff including books, newspapers, trash and clocks). more ›

Cops want your help finding a bald man who may have been involved in the killing of former Brighton Bazaar owner Vladimir Tolstykh last year. In March two hooded thugs beat the purveyor of salty salads and blini to death, stealing thousands of dollars and Russian candy, says the Daily News. His widow Rita, who’s taken over the Brighton Beach grocery, thinks it was an inside job. "Somebody knew the whole schedule—how it worked, what time he came in," she said. Now police have released surveillance footage of another man fleeing the scene and are offering a reward of $32,000 for tips leading to his arrest. Take a crack at it: call (800) 577-TIPS or report online. Video after the jump. more ›

A 17-year-old in Harlem was shot and killed yesterday after a man was turned away from a party at his family’s bodega. Last night Ruben Larios was socializing with family and friends at Malinche Deli, near the Harlem River Drive. All was well, until an unwanted guest showed up—an unidentified acquaintance who was turned away at the door. But Larios hadn’t seen the last of him: later, around 11:30 pm he ran into the spurned guest in the lobby 381 Edgecomb Avenue, where he shot him twice in the chest. The teen was taken to Harlem Hospital where he was pronounced dead, reports the NY Post. No arrests have been made yet. more ›

Despite telling police he set fire to a toilet paper roll near the entrance of the building where five died Saturday, at his arraignment today Daniel Ignacio pleaded not guilty. His lawyer Danielle Eaddy told the AP she doesn't believe statements he made to police will prove an intention to start the fire and that there were problems with how cops obtained his statement. She even suggested that Ignacio acted heroically, adding that he helped save the life of a two-year-old boy by handing him from a window. "He confessed to the arson," a police source told the Post. "He didn't indicate any rational motive." At a prayer service Rev. Erick Salgado relayed an apology from Ignacio to his congretation: "Sorry. It was not intentional. He did not mean to kill nobody," Salgado said. more ›

The heroic mom who tossed her two children out the window rather than let them perish in the flames, was one of the five fatalities of a three-alarm fire in Brooklyn yesterday. Fire officials are now saying the blaze—which also hospitalized 13 firefighters—could be a case of arson. The two-month old girl who was thrown by her mother from a third-floor window fractured her skull, but is expected to survive. Her brother escaped from the fire unscathed. more ›

An out-of-control fire at a Bensonhurst apartment building killed five, and caused a mother to throw two children out a window early this morning. "It was not a normal fire," said FDNY Deputy Assistant Chief John Sudnik. According to the Daily News the blaze, that firefighters battled for over three hours, started at a first-floor restaurant, though the exact cause is unknown. more ›

A New Jersey woman narrowly avoided a fiery death in yesterday’s crash on the Long Island Expressway, thanks to an anonymous Good Samaritan. On Saturday morning a gasoline tanker clipped Marie Medina’s Dodge Neon when she stalled on the L.I.E. near exit 48. The truck flipped on its side and exploded into a giant fireball that killed driver Mujahid Shahin, a Brooklyn man in his fifties, according to the NY Post. But someone pulled Medina from her vehicle before she became the accident's second casualty. "He saved me. I kept thanking him," said the woman, who has only minor injuries. Just this morning, officials re-opened eastbound lanes on the expressway, reported AP. more ›

This morning at 8 a.m. a tanker hauling a cargo of gasoline sideswiped a car while changing lanes, causing the truck to roll and burst into flames. Its driver perished on the Long Island Expressway and another person was injured. The wreck occurred near the Nassau-Suffolk County line and as of this afternoon the road was still closed on both sides near Melville, reported the NY Post. The truck’s combustion caused a giant fireball that could be seen for miles, and also felled a large highway sign, blocking the road in both directions. This afternoon rescuers were still trying to pull the driver’s body from truck. more ›

Since a police officer got into a deadly shootout with a Times Square CD peddler, cops have been issuing more tickets to the over-eager salesman. In fact, they've given out 45 misdemeanor charges for "aggressive solicitation" in the past six weeks. As a result, CD sellers have nearly been wiped clean from the city's central hub, but is the eradication fair or legal? more ›

An underage driver doing 51 mph in a 30 mph zone on the Bruckner expressway last night flipped his family's GMC Envoy and killed his 12-year-old front seat passenger, police sources say. The victim, a Bronx girl identified as Kaitlin Booth, was rushed Jacobi Hospital, where she died. The name of the 15-year-old driver hasn't been released, but investigators believe the accident happened after the vehicle jumped a curb, tore through a chain-link fence, crashed into a tree stump, and flipped on its side. more ›

Yesterday around 4 p.m. word came in on the newswire that there was a "motorcycle down" on, or just before, the Williamsburg Bridge—towards the Manhattan side. Shortly after an update came in saying the accident was fatal. There aren't many details beyond those available yet, but eyewitnesses say the motorcycle was actually a Vespa, and it was hit (and totaled) by a black car. The Vespa driver is the one who died, and URB Magazine reports it was deejay Josh Link (friends are confirming on Twitter). Many witnessed the scene, which has been described as bloody, and one even posted their thoughts on Craigslist, noting that late last night there were burning candles where the crash happened. UPDATE: It has been confirmed that Josh Link was the victim in this sad accident, and services will be held on Long Island tomorrow. more ›

Sources tell NY1 that three witnesses heard the officer who fatally shot an armed, plainclothes off-duty officer In Harlem Thursday night identify himself as NYPD. Those three witnesses include the two other cops who arrived on the scene with officer Andrew who fired and the car break-in suspect that slain Officer Omar Edwards was chasing, Migueal Goitia. According to the Post, Goitia [earlier identified with the last name alias "Santiago"] has been hospitalized several times for unknown reasons since his arrest. more ›

The off-duty police officer who was fatally shot by police in Harlem last night as he chased a burglar with his gun drawn died from a gunshot wound from the chest. But a spokeswoman for the city medical examiner says that though the fatal bullet was recovered from the front of Officer Omar Edwards's chest, the bullet actually entered the left side of his back before hitting his heart and left lung. Another bullet struck his left arm, and a third hit his left hip. The NYPD is still withholding the name of the white cop who fired on Edwards and is conducting an investigation to determine whether officers identified themselves. But Rev. Al Sharpton wants a federal investigation; speaking to 1010WINS, he says sees "a growing pattern of black officers being killed with the assumption that they are the criminals." On that note, City Room takes a compelling look back at the many incidents of white cops shooting black cops over the years, including one such report from 1940 with the antiquated yet eerie headline "Patrolman Slain by Fellow-Police: Negro, Off-Duty and Chasing a Burglar, Felled by Shots of Men from Radio Car." more ›

A white cop fatally shot a black off-duty officer in plainclothes who was chasing a robbery suspect in East Harlem last night. The victim, a recently married father of a 1-year-old and 7-month-old from Brooklyn named Omar Edwards, had been an NYPD officer for two years and patrolled housing projects as part of the Housing Bureau Impact Response Team. Police sources say that when Edwards left duty and went to his car around 10:30 p.m., he found his driver's side window broken and a man inside searching for valuables. According to the Post, he called 911 before confronting the thief. more ›