Police say that an off-duty police officer fatally shot a man who was trying to mug him at Broadway and Grove Street in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. According to WABC 7, two men approached the cop: "One of the men simulated holding a gun while the other knocked the victim down to the ground with a cane. The detective opened fire on the muggers, hitting the cane-wielding suspect once in the chest." more ›

After a Parks Ranger was fatally shot near Washington's Mount Rainier on New Year's Day, authorities set off on a massive manhunt in deep snow to find the killer. Yesterday, the FBI announced that suspect Benjamin Colton Barnes was found "lying half-submerged in Paradise Creek and wearing one tennis shoe, a T-shirt and jeans, barely one mile from where he had fled into the woods." more ›

As the investigation continues into the death of police officer Peter Figoski, who was fatally shot in the face while responding to a home invasion robbery in East New York, there has been finger-pointing about suspected shooter Lamont Pride. Pride, wanted on an outstanding warrant in North Carolina, was arrested twice in NYC; NC authorities appeared to lag in extraditing him and a NYC judge decided to free him without bail. Bloomberg had harsh words for the judge. more ›

On Saturday night, police found the body of NY State tax investigator Tracey Young in her Queens apartment. Young 42, had been shot ten times in the head and torso, and, hours later, her husband, former NYPD officer Clarence Cash, turned himself in at a Manhattan police station. According to the Post, Cash said, "I’m a retired cop. I tried to kill myself, but I couldn’t do it." The Daily News adds that Cash allegedly said, "She didn’t deserve that." more ›

Yesterday morning, police found the bodies of two women inside a home on 38th Avenue in Astoria, Queens. Olga Annarumma and her 25-year-old daughter, Valeria Kuzmina Lowery, were shot and police arrested Annarumma's estranged husband Guerino Annarumma. Lowery died from her injuries while her mother is in critical condition. The suspect wrote on a blog ranting at his wife, "You are going to pay for whatever you did. I dont [sic] play no games. Good Luck, Bye Bye Bye." more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a 34-year-old pregnant woman picking up one of her children from P.S. 298 in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn was killed by gunfire from a rooftop. Zurana Horton apparently tried to shield the little ones near here; NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said, "Moments before, she was seen hovering over several children to protect them." [Update: The medical examiner says that Horton was not pregnant at the time of her death.] more ›

The violent Crown Heights shooting left two people dead—Eusi Johnson, who was allegedly killed by Leroy Webster, and Denise Gay, a neighbor sitting on her stoop. Webster's gunfire attracted police, who fired 73 times at him, hitting him twice. Initially police believed that one of Webster's shots killed Gay, but now ballistics tests reveal that the bullets do not match Webster's 9mm and they are more similar to bullets from a Glock—which is what the police use. more ›

A 43-year-old man was fatally shot in the abdomen yesterday in Inwood by an undercover plainclothes detective during a drug bust—and the man's son says it was a tragic misunderstanding. According to police, an unidentified detective tried to arrest a 23-year-old man selling drugs at 26 Post Avenue by Dyckman Street shortly after 5 p.m. Somehow John Collado, Sr., the shooting victim, got involved. NYPD sources tell ABC 7 Collado was part of the drug deal, but his son tells DNAinfo he just happened to be walking by, saw his friend getting assaulted, and tried to help. more ›

As Nazish Noorani's family mourns her death, NJ authorities say they will be making "significant developments" in their investigation of the 27-year-old mother-of-two's murder on a quiet street in Boonton. This comes as new details about Noorani's husband emerge, such as his arrest from six months ago for allegedly beating up a 20-year-old woman—and a Star-Ledger source says that the husband has admitted a role in her killing. more ›

As the Morris County prosecutor's homicide division investigates the fatal shooting of a woman on a suburban NJ street, police believe that 27-year-old Pakistani immigrant Nazish Noorani was the intended target. Noorani was shot in the heart while walking a few blocks in Boonton with her husband, Kashif Parvaiz, 26 and three-year-old son. Parvaiz was shot in the ankle and shoulder, while the child was unharmed (but "splattered in blood"). Relatives of the couple say that investigators have been asking about a Brooklyn man who owns a towing business and now there's speculation that there was a love triangle-aspect to the violence. more ›

A Muslim family walking in Boonton, NJ last night was shot at, killing the 27-year-old mother and wounding the 26-year-old father. The Brooklyn couple's three-year-old son was unharmed but was reportedly "splattered in blood." Now police are investigating whether it was a bias attack. more ›

Yesterday, a man was shot at 14 Maujer Street in Brooklyn around 5 p.m. It turns out the victim, who was an ex-con who served time for murder, was inside his mother's apartment building. more ›

Just after 7 p.m. yesterday, a 15-year-old boy was killed and a 13-year-old was injured after a man opened fire on the pair. According to WABC 7, the gunman first went up the 13-year-old at East 39th Street and Avenue J and shot in him in the buttocks. "The suspect then walked up East 39th Street towards Avenue K and onto the playground at PS 119 where a 15-year-old boy was shot in the torso." more ›

The motive behind the horrific killings at a Pennsylvania weekend house owned by an East Village couple is still being investigated. East 10th Street residents Paul and Monica Shay were at their Bechtelsville farmhouse with their nephew Joseph Shay, his girlfriend Kathryn Erdmann, and her two-year-old son Gregory when Mark Geisenheyner (pictured) stormed in and shot them all in the head on Saturday night. Joseph Shay and Gregory Erdmann died from their wounds, while the others were seriously injured. Geisenheyner, who was killed by a SWAT team on July 4, told friends that Paul Shay hadn't paid him his share of an insurance fraud scheme. more ›

WABC 7 reports, "Their bodies were discovered in different rooms, suggesting the gunman went from room to room, killing his or her victims execution-style." Joseph Shay has an extensive criminal history: The Philadelphia Inquirer says it "[dates] to 1992, when he was sentenced in Atlantic County to 10 years in prison for drug dealing. He was released in 1998, state records show. More recently, he was imprisoned for nearly two years in New York for grand larceny - the theft of $1,000 or more. He was released about a year ago, according to state records." more ›

Police are reviewing surveillance video of the man who opened fire at a Long Island pharmacy, killing four people, yesterday after 10 a.m. The victims were the 45-year-old pharmacist at Haven Drugs, two customers, ages 33 and 71, and a 17-year-old pharmacy worker who was supposed to graduate from high school this week. Suffolk County Police Det. Lt. Gerard Pelkofsky said, "It appears at this time that there was one person involved, but that's also under investigation." more ›

A 14-year-old boy was killed in front of a Crown Heights bodega last night. Tyrek O'Hara-Morris was out with friends when he was shot at Park Place and Troy Avenue. His mother Althea O'Hara told WCBS 2 that detectives came to her home just a few blocks away with the news, "My son was shot, was shot. Got shot in the left eye,” she said. more ›

A 29-year-old woman walking with her 2-year-old on Park Avenue between 178th and 179th Streets in the Bronx was shot in the face around 10:30 p.m. last night. Claudia Millan was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital. Her neighbor Michael Escobar told the Daily News he ran outside and pulled little Jamir from his mother's body, "He was down on his knees trying to hold her. She was bleeding out of her head. I tried to stop it. I just couldn't." more ›

Yesterday morning around 5 a.m., a shooting broke out at a Brooklyn apartment complex, killing a 22-year-old Crystal Sweet and her 29-year-old boyfriend Timothy Walter and critically injuring the boyfriend's 30-year-old brother, Cornelius Walter. The violence erupted in the courtyard of the Sheepshead Bay Houses; according to WCBS 2, the victims were "confronted by the gunman as they returned home." Sweet's mother said, "We heard like six or seven shots and then the screaming, they were screaming, ‘Crystal is dead, Crystal is dead. I never thought this day would happen. I never really thought this would happen.” more ›

Last night, while working in a gun buy-and-bust operation, an undercover police officer fatally shot a man who tried to rob him at gunpoint in Brooklyn. The cop was buying six guns from a 22-year-old gun trafficker at 193 Knickerbocker Avenue when another man showed up and pretended to rob them. The second man pointed his .380-caliber gun at the gun dealer and then at the cop, who fired three times. more ›

The police are looking into the fatal shooting of a man on Nostrand Avenue (near Glenwood) in Brooklyn. Trevonne Winn, a South Carolina resident who was in town visiting his relatives, was talking on his cell phone when a man suddenly fired at him around 7:45 p.m. on Saturday. NY1 reports that there's surveillance video of Winn being killed—it's pretty haunting—"The video shows a hooded man in dark clothing walk out of a nearby store, stand around for a few minutes and then fire two shots point blank." more ›

Last night after 7:30 p.m., a 24-year-old man was shot on Nostrand Avenue near Glenwood in Brooklyn. According to the Daily News, the victim, who was from South Carolina and visiting relatives, was on the cellphone when a" gunman walked up... and shot him in the torso." His cousin said, "I left for a second. When I came back, he was on the floor and bleeding." more ›

The police shot and killed a man who was wielding a knife in a Bronx apartment building earlier this morning. The knife-wielding man had been in a dispute with his roommate, and the cops were called to the apartment at 11:20 p.m. A neighbor said, "[A] cop said, 'Everybody go back to your apartments.' As soon as we hear them say that - not even a full second after - you hear boom-boom!" more ›

A woman was fatally shot during a Queens mugging—because she refused to hand over her purse. According to the Post, "Rabie Mohammed, 23, was walking on 204th Street near 93rd Avenue with her husband around 8:30 p.m. when three thugs demanded her belongings." more ›

A 25-year-old man was fatally shot early Sunday morning after a fight broke out at the NoCo Lounge on Columbus Avenue and 109th Street. Floyd Miller was shot in the torso and reportedly walked from the bar to Harlem Hospital, where he died shortly after. Local community board member Andrew Albert was surprised at the shooting, saying, "It's a changing street. It's gotten much more gentrified over the years. I am very surprised to hear this. At one point it was drug infested, but the residents have really fought to change that." more ›

Right now, there's the funeral procession for Poughkeepsie police officer John Falcone is heading to Brooklyn, where he will be buried at the Cemetery of the Holy Cross. Falcone was killed in the line of duty last Friday, when he was shot by a man in a parking lot near the Poughkeepsie Metro-North station. Earlier today, thousands of mourners gathered inside and outside the Putnam County church where the funeral was held. more ›

Jerry Bowens, the former cop who pled guilty to to the 2009 second-degree murder of his ex-girlfriend and shooting her friend in a Greenpoint apartment, was sentenced yesterday to 40 years to life. In court, the 13-year police veteran, previously been ejected from the force for stealing drugs and supplying them to informants, spoke highly of his victim, Catherine D’Onofrio, and expressed remorse for his actions—to no avail. more ›

After responding to a 911 call, the police fatally shot a knife-wielding 21-year-old outside his family's home in the Ridgewood section of Queens. Apparently his mother had called, saying her son was "acting erratically," and he was standing outside the two-story house when police arrived. Police sources tell the Post that the man slashed a sergeant's hand, prompting other officers to shoot. more ›