Ten days after being shot in the head while pursuing a suspect at the Bushwick Houses, police officer Kevin Brennan was released from Bellevue Hospital today. Wearing a #91 Justin Tuck Giants jersey, he told reporters, "It feels great," and that his first order of business at home in Long Island would be to hug his two-month-old daughter. And look at how cute he, his wife and daughter are! more ›

It was a violent weekend in Queens: In the span of 12 hours, three people were killed in three separate incidents. more ›

A police officer was shot in the head around 9 p.m. tonight in Brooklyn, and there's currently a massive police mobilization in search of the shooter. Apparently, two anti-crime police officers saw a man with a gun by the Bushwick Houses; WPIX reports, "They gave chase and followed the suspect into an enclosed area where the man wheeled and fired, striking one of the officers in the head, police said." more ›

Police are seeking two suspects who allegedly shot a man who refused to give them his iPhone in the Bronx. The incident occurred last week, on January 18 around 6:30 p.m. when a 23-year-old man was walking on West 190th Street near Grand Avenue. more ›

Exactly one year ago today, Jared Lee Loughner allegedly opened fire on a crowd meeting Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords outside a Tucson Safeway, killing six people and wounding 14 others, including Rep. Giffords. To remember those who were lost, Mayors Against Illegal Guns has released a video of several survivors describing what happened that day, and why they support the stepped-up enforcement and reform of current gun laws. more ›

A 61-year-old man was arrested for shooting his 43-year-old stepson in a Canarsie apartment last night. According to the Daily News, "Osvaldo Vasquez was mortally wounded in his sixth-floor apartment at the Breukelen Houses in Canarsie by a single blast to the chest just after 6 p.m." more ›

The 17-year-old accused of shooting a Chinese food deliveryman at the Bushwick Houses is being held on $500,000 bail. Victor Cubero, an alleged member of the Latin Kings, was in court yesterday "where he threw a temper tantrum after court officers prevented him from talking with family members," according to the Post. more ›

This morning, a loud argument was heard coming from a home on 38th Street near Ditmars Boulevard in Astoria, Queens and a woman and her daughter were shot in the head. The women are in critical condition at Elmhurst Hospital and police say the man who shot them is woman's husband the daughter's father. Update: The younger woman is apparently not related to the suspect. more ›

The paranoid ex-con who fatally shot his girlfriend's teenage son, then killed one person and injured another on a Q111 NYC Transit bus in Queens was allegedly hoping for a bloodbath. Damel Burton, 34, told cops the bus shooting occurred because he believed the commuters were plotting against him. And prosecutors say he had been planning to shoot even more people: "The defendant stated that he would have shot more people but the gun jammed," prosecutor Suzanne O'Hare said at Burton's arraignment, according to the News. more ›

A paranoid ex-con fatally shot his girlfriend's teenage son, then killed one person and injured another on a Q111 NYC Transit bus in Queens during a 15 minute shooting spree yesterday afternoon. According to the News, Damel Burton, 34, told cops the bus shooting occurred because he believed the commuters were plotting against him. “People on the bus were on the phone and he thought they were talking about him,” a police source said. more ›

A shooting broke out on a Q111 NYC Transit bus in Queens at around 4:04 p.m. today. The incident, at Parsons Boulevard and Archer Avenue, left one man dead at the scene and another wounded after being shot in the face. The shooter apparently just walked onto the bus and started firing. Police say he is in custody. more ›

A fight outside a Long Island bar resulted in a shooting—and a drunk driving arrest for the woman who was driving a shooting victim to the hospital. Suffolk County police say that Nyasha Hunter, 21, was driving on Sunrise Service Road when she crashed her car into a guardrail at Saxon Avenue. more ›

Multiple people were shot inside Chelsea's Juliet Supper Club early this morning, less than two months after a man was fatally stabbed after leaving the club. A 43-year-old man who was shot in the torso and back was declared dead on arrival at Bellevue this morning a little after 2:30 a.m.. According to sources, "some current NBA and NFL players were inside the crowded club, but they were not involved in the shooting." more ›

Late Tuesday night, a four-year-old boy was shot in the chest during a botched robbery attempt outside a halfway house in the Bronx. Yesterday, authorities said that they wouldn't charge father Bobby Baltazar for shooting one of the attackers, 17-year-old Jose Marte, who he had chased down after his son Cincer had been shot. But things might not be that simple for Baltazar: “It’s a very close call. Generally speaking, you’re not allowed to shoot people in the back as they’re running away,” defense attorney Ron Kuby told the Daily News about Baltazar’s legal prospects. more ›

Police say they've caught the man who opened fire in a Bronx Emergency Room waiting area Wednesday night in an apparent gang fight. Michael (Mills) Wayman, 29, allegedly a member of the gang Burnside Money Getters, has been charged with assault and weapons possession after police found him in a Hamilton Heights apartment yesterday. Wayman's intended target was not shot, but a 37-year-old nurse was hit with bullet fragments in his shoulder, and a security guard, 42, was also hit with a ricocheting bullet. Fortunately, both are in stable condition. more ›

Late Tuesday night, a four-year-old boy was shot in the chest during a botched robbery attempt outside a halfway house in the Bronx. Bobby Baltazar and son Cincer were returning from having ice cream when three robbers confronted them at gunpoint in an apparent attempt to steal Balthazar's coat. The robbers' gun went off during a struggle with Baltazar, hitting Cincer; as the attackers fled, Baltazar picked up the gun and shot one of the teens in the head. But police say Baltazar won't be charged in that shooting: “The father was forthcoming. The reason he did what he did was because of his son, who was shot. He’s a victim now,” an official told the NY Times. more ›

A four-year-old Bronx boy was shot in the chest last night during a botched robbery attempt. Four-year-old Cincer Balthazar's father told police that the two of them were outside a halfway house at Grand Avenue and Evelyn Place around 10:30 p.m. when two or four—reports vary—men tried to rob them, and opened fire. According to police, the boy is now in critical condition. “He’s my world. He’s our little Spider-Man. He always walked around with a Spider-Man mask,” a woman who identified herself as the boy’s aunt told the Post. more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] An 18-year-old man has been arrested for a gang-related rooftop shooting on Friday that killed Zuranna Horton, a 33-year-old mother of 13, and wounded two others, including an 11-year-old girl. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters today that Andrew Lopez, 18, has made a full confession. Lopez was reportedly tracked down because someone sent a tip to the NYPD, which is exactly what outraged community members were hoping for. more ›

Brownsville residents, community leaders, and politicians continued to express outrage yesterday in the wake of the death of Zuranna Horton, who was killed while trying to shield children from a spray of gunfire outside a school Friday afternoon. There was a candlelight vigil and march Sunday night, and yesterday Rev. Al Sharpton met with Horton's family, praising her ultimate sacrifice and noting that two of her siblings had previously died from gun violence. State Senator Eric Adams, whom you may recall from his "Stop the Sag" campaign, also weighed in. more ›

Residents of the crime-ridden neighborhood of Brownsville were unified last night at a vigil for Zuranna Horton, the 34-year-old mother of 13 who killed in a gang shootout while picking up one of her children from P.S. 298 Friday afternoon. Over 100 outraged community members gathered together to urge anyone with knowledge of the shooting to come forward. While the catchphrase "stop snitching" is infamous in the ghetto, last night distraught locals shouted, "It’s not snitching, it’s saving a life!" more ›

As police try to find the suspect whose Friday afternoon shooting from a Brooklyn rooftop left a woman dead and another woman and an 11-year-old girl injured, the slain woman's family remains bereft. Zurana Horton, 34, was killed when picking up a child from P.S. 298 in Brownsville, at Pitkin Avenue and Watkins Street, and apparently died trying to shield other youngsters. One of Horton's children told the Post that she actually walked by the crime scene, not realizing her mother was the victim, "I was wondering where my mother was. I found out later [the body] was my mother. My little sister [Alexis] said, ‘Mommy died. She got shot.’" more ›

A police officer nearly got shot by a man wielding a .38 gun but managed to stop him by jamming his finger to prevent him from firing. The NYPD says that Sgt. Michael Miller and Officer William Reddin checked out a livery cab that had been speeding on Quincy Street in Brooklyn yesterday around 4 a.m. The Post reports, "When the cops walked up and displayed shields, they noticed a passenger, Eugene Graves, acting suspiciously. Miller, a 13-year veteran of the NYPD, reached toward a bulge at Graves’ waist and felt a gun beneath his clothes." more ›

Besides a jailhouse interview with the man who admitted to killing four people at a Long Island pharmacy, Newsday has a disturbing article about how a Suffolk County detective actually wanted to remove guns from David Laffer months before the massacre, but his recommendation was ignored: "Despite the warning of Det. Kenneth Ripp, who interviewed Laffer at his home, the pistol bureau said Laffer could keep the guns -- including the registered .45 pistol Laffer used to later murder four people at Haven Drugs in Medford in June -- and that the bureau would investigate, according to a police report by Ripp." more ›

The 21-month-old baby girl who was shot in the face in the crossfire of a Staten Island shootout last week was released from the hospital yesterday. Little Samyah Bailey lost an eye in the shooting, but doctors say she made a "miracle" full recovery otherwise. Now the Daily News reports that family members say they have nowhere safe to take her now: "We don't want to go back. We don't have nowhere to go. They want us to go back to the same area. That's foul. That's not right," father Michael Bailey said as he cradled Samyah (the News also has pictures of the brave toddler's distressing injuries). more ›

Brower Park in Crown Heights is ground zero for what the Daily News is calling a "turf battle" between residents and roving bands of teenagers who "skip school, smoke pot, and drink alcohol during the day." 13 people have been shot in the area this month, including Denise Gay, who was killed. While an NYPD spokesperson claims they "will do whatever it takes until they stop shooting," they acknowledge that "these kids are trying to take over the park. It's a problem." more ›

The NYPD collected 164 guns at a buyback on Staten Island Saturday, but there's still a long way to go, as gunfire in Brooklyn and Queens over the weekend left three men dead and two people injured. The first murder occurred around 11 p.m. Saturday night in Sheepshead Bay, where a 27-year-old man named Avery Kelly was gunned down in the entrance of an apartment building at 2258 Batchelder Street, just down the block from his residence. Police sources tell the Daily News they recovered more than 25 shell casings in the hallway of the building, and no arrests have been made. more ›

Speaking at the funeral of Denise Gay, the 56-year-old Crown Heights woman who was killed by a stray bullet on her stoop, Reverend Al Sharpton issued a stern plea for the seemingly senseless violence to stop. "Somehow you must reach inside you and stand up for what's right." Gay may have been killed by one of the 73 bullets fired by NYPD officers in their attempt to subdue shooter Leroy Webster, who had killed Eusi Johnson around 9 p.m. on Labor Day. Ballistics results remain pending. According to the Daily News, Sharpton said, "Whatever the results of that investigation, there's no doubt you must stop shooting." more ›

Officials are worried about the safety of the teen gunman who is accused of shooting a baby in the face this week. 19-year-old suspect Damark King has been moved from Rikers Island to a jail outside the city "for his own safety." Outside court on Friday, relatives of 21-month-old Samyah Bailey, who lost an eye as a result of the shooting, shouted at a smirking King, “Hang yourself with a sheet, bitch!” and “An eye for an eye!” more ›

The NYPD announced that 164 guns were surrendered at yesterday's gun buy-back on Staten Island. The program, which was held by the Staten Island DA's Office and NYPD, offered $200 cash for each eligible handgun and $20 for each eligible rifle or shotgun—no questions asked. The NYPD adds that of the guns turned in yesterday, four were loaded. more ›