An unidentified man was fatally shot on Williamsburg's southside this afternoon. An FDNY spokesman tells us the shooting was reported at 3:25 p.m., and the victim was pronounced DOA when first responders arrived at the scene, on Wythe Avenue between Broadway and South Sixth Street. He was "possibly shot in the mouth," the spokesman said. more ›

The first homicide in Austin this year took place around 3 a.m. on New Year's Day, when a 29-year-old woman, Esme Barrera, was murdered upon her return home that night. The attack has been particularly terrifying to Austin residents due to its random nature, and the fact that two other non-fatal attacks happened nearby that same morning—the Austin Police Department is now being scrutinized, with many believing they could have prevented Barrera's murder since an attack 30 minutes earlier outside of her home had been reported. more ›

Police in two states are trying to piece together the last 12 hours of slain Brooklyn cafe owner Josh Rubin's life, with Pennsylvania authorities working under the assumption that Rubin was killed elsewhere and dumped in an apple orchard outside of Allentown, while theories about Rubin's alleged money problems and drug ties continue to circulate. more ›

As authorities continue to investigate the death of Brooklyn cafe owner Josh Rubin, the Post's sources suggest the 30-year-old may have been dealing weed: "[Rubin] had been pressing his friends to buy large weights of weed... Rubin’s friends told investigators that he’d get them as much as a pound of pot at time, according to the sources." And Rubin's money problems are also being looked at. more ›

The mystery surrounding the gruesome murder of Brooklyn cafe owner Josh Rubin deepens today, with conflicting stories about whether or not he was in debt when he vanished, and a few more clues about how he may have disappeared. more ›

Yesterday, the U.S. military announced the eight soldiers would be charged in the death of Private Danny Chen. The 19-year-old Chinatown resident was found dead at an outpost in Afghanistan, due to a "self-inflicted gunshot wound" but it was revealed that he had been taunted and physically harassed by fellow soldiers. more ›

More details are emerging this morning about Josh Rubin, the missing Brooklyn cafe owner whose shot and badly burned body was identified last night, though investigators are still trying to piece together exactly what happened between the night of October 31, when Rubin went missing, and the morning of November 1, when his body was found. more ›

Brooklyn cafe owner Josh Rubin, who was last seen on October 31, was found dead outside of Allentown, Pennsylvania. It turns out that his burned body was found on November 1 in South Whitehall Township but DNA testing only recently identified the remains as Rubin's. more ›

Police have arrested and charged a 3-year-old Bronx girl's stepfather in her death after it was ruled a homicide yesterday. India Durant died of blunt force trauma to the chest and other internal injuries; stepfather Kenneth Williams had told cops that India had just fallen off a chair. “I lost my world. That was my only child, that was my baby girl, that was my little princess,” said Marquis Eaddy, India's biological fatber. more ›

The death of a three-year-old Bronx girl was ruled a homicide yesterday, and police are now looking to question the girl's stepfather. India Durant was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital just after 10 a.m. Wednesday, after police responded to a 911 call. India's stepfather, known as "Billy Bob," was with her when she died while her mother, Lauren Durant, was at work, according to family friend Jimmy Truesdale. more ›

Yesterday, Vietnam vet Robert Jenkins was found dead in his own living room, and "friend" and suspect Ronald Jones was arrested for assault. Jones had allegedly been drinking with Jenkins in his home before he was found dead, and now a medical examiner has ruled his death a homicide of "asphyxia due to pressure on face and neck and blunt impact injuries." more ›

A 57-year-old Staten Island man leaving the hospital was arrested yesterday and charged with assault and criminal mischief in regards to a post-Thanksgiving attack on his wife that may have led to her death. On November 26 Thomas Scala came home from the hospital (he apparently has a history of health issues) furious that his wife, Blanche Scala, not only had not visited him but also that she had not paid for him to watch premium cable during his stay. It was not the first time they had fought and investigators believe that the physical altercation between the two may have caused a hematoma in Blanche's brain (which they think Thomas caused in a separate November 19 fight) to burst. more ›

Over a year after emergency responders found an unconscious 4-year-old boy in a Crown Heights apartment, his mother has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his death. Myrna Chenphang, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter last fall, appeared in court today and when she asked to speak to her mother, her mother responded, "You hurt all of us. For what you did there is no forgiveness... Jayden was a joy for me and for all of us." more ›

Barely six hours into the new year and the city has what is most likely its first homicide of 2011. Dwayne Haughton, 29, was fatally shot outside a New Year's party in South Richmond Hill after breaking up a fight between two women. Haughton was there to pick up his girlfriend around 5:30 a.m. when he saw the fight break out. His girlfriend, whom he asked to stay in the car, said she heard gunshots soon after. She told the Daily News, "When I ran out of the car, he was just laying there on his back, just laying there not moving." more ›

The death of fashion designer Sylvie Cachay has officially been classified as a homicide by the medical examiner's office. Cachay's body was found in a bathtub in a hotel room at the Soho House earlier this month. The ME's office says that the 33-year-old was held underwater and strangled. more ›

After the horrifying discovery of a woman's body stuffed into a suitcase left on East 114th Street across from Thomas Jefferson Park (a passer-by noticed a foot sticking out early yesterday morning), surveillance video has emerged of a man dragging a suitcase down the very same street. The video (below) shows a man walking down the street, pulling the suitcase, but then pauses a few times as people walk by or to wipe his face. The person who provided the video told the Post, "He's got a body in his suitcase and he's just standing there like nothing's going on. I freaked out when I saw that... It's f--ked up. [He's] just standing there." more ›

Yesterday morning just after 10 a.m. we received word over the newswire that a double homicide had taken place in the Ridgewood section of Queens. The alert noted the incident occurred at Willoughby and Woodward Avenue (next to the Linden Hill Cemetery), where one male and one female were found shot inside of a car. more ›

A shooting in a Bed-Stuy salon, a shooting in a Union Square Diner, another shooting at a Queens bodega, and a shooting in a Bronx apartment made for at least four gun-related fatalities this weekend. In Bed-Stuy, a 12-year-old boy is in stable condition after being shot in the shoulder while walking near Tompkins Park, and in Springfield Gardens, Queens, a man opened fire at a house party, wounding four people. And we're also hearing reports this morning of a fatal stabbing near Avenue D. more ›

Just past midnight, police were called to a luxury apartment building in the Financial District. When they arrived, they found a man shot in the head inside 2 Gold Street. Max Moreno, a 21-year-old NJ resident, was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital. more ›

The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene released a report about the longevity of New Yorkers. The big factoid is that life expectancy is at "an all-time high": "City residents born in 2007 can expect to live an average of 79.4 years - a gain of nearly 5 months since 2006." But on the flip side, men tend to die younger than women—at age 76 versus women's 82 years—and two causes of premature death are heart disease and homicide. Here are some findings: more ›

Four seemingly unrelated homicides occurred within hours of each other last night—three within six blocks of each other in Bushwick and one in the Bronx. The first occurred just after midnight in Soundview, where Anna Silva was found stabbed to death. She had reportedly warned her daughter that she might be in trouble, saying that if anything happened to her, her boyfriend Fabian Faulkner would be responsible. Silva's daughter told the Daily News, "He knew my mom wanted to leave him. That's why he killed her." Faulkner called 911 and turned himself in to police, and was charged with murder and possession of a weapon. more ›

Though the suspected stabber has claimed his girlfriend wasn't even murdered, the courtroom got a look at Robert Camarano's scary side when prosecutor Peter Casolaro read a letter victim Michele Hyams allegedly wrote three days before her murder. Hyams wrote, "you said...'I want to knock your face off, see your teeth break and fly out of your mouth. I want to slam my fist into your f---ing face and knock half your f--in' head off. I will disfigure you.' And then you asked me to make you dinner." She then predicted, "You are going to kill me." more ›

A 19-year-old man charged with killing a Jersey City couple has also been charged with three other murders. The Jersey Journal reports that Shiquan Bellamy's bail was set at $6 million cash only. There have been nine murders in Jersey City this year, which means Bellamy is involved with over half of them. Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said, "This is beyond humanity that one young man can be charged with causing this much destruction of human life." more ›

Brooklyn’s crime statistics for the first quarter are looking none too good. Three months into the new decade felonies are way up, the Daily News reports, with almost 70 percent of Brooklyn police precincts seeing an increases in robberies, burglaries, grand larceny or auto theft of twenty percent or more. Last week Mayor Bloomberg blamed rising city crime rates on budget cuts, but Ft. Greene Councilwoman Letitia James gives an alternate explanation. more ›

NYPD detectives claim a special Internal Affairs Bureau tow truck team that has been "unfairly" hauling away their unmarked cars left a murder witness stranded outside a courthouse. After the homicide witness—who had been threatened about cooperating with police—finished giving anonymous testimony in court, a detective was supposed to quickly and surreptitiously drive the witness home, said detectives union president Michael Palladino. But that couldn't happen, because the detective's car had been towed. more ›

Yesterday, the Medical Examiner's office said that a 22-month-old girl who was found unconscious in a Bronx apartment and later died from terrible injuries had been killed. Now police have arrested the boyfriend of the toddler's mother and he has been charged with second-degree murder. The Daily News reports that Ramel Green said in a videotape confession, "I knocked her in the stomach with my elbow. She had her eyes open, but she wasn't breathing." more ›

The medical examiner's office says that a 22-month-old girl found unconscious in a Bronx apartment early Saturday was killed. According to the NY Times, the child, Sanaa Brewington, "died of blunt compact injuries to the torso, with lacerations of the liver, spleen, pancreas and duodenum... The police said the companion of the girl’s mother had fallen asleep while taking care of the girl in an apartment in Soundview, in the Bronx. He woke to find her unresponsive." After the toddler's grandmother called 911, Sanaa was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead. The NYPD and Administration for Children's Services are investigating. UPDATE: The mother's boyfriend was arrested. more ›

The Queens DA is considering filing charges against a former marine who killed an alleged car thief Saturday night in Queens. Daillard Paris was inside his home around 10 p.m. taking a quick break from shoveling his Nissan Altima out of the snow when cab driver Yaosse Agbokou, 50, allegedly tried to steal the idling vehicle. But wen the car got stuck in the snow, Paris managed to drag Agbokou out and get him into a headlock, eventually strangling him death. Last night neighbors in St. Albans defended Paris. more ›

The double homicide that took the lives of a Marine Park husband and wife remains unsolved, but authorities are expected to arraign four individuals for money scams connected with the 2008 execution-style killings. So far, no one has been indicted for shooting and killing lawyers Christina Petrowski-Schwartz, 48, and Mark Schwartz, 50, in their Brooklyn home—but investigators believe the killings were connected with "wide-ranging financial scams" that might have involved the deceased attorneys. more ›

Investigators believe a 24-year-old fatally stabbed his girlfriend and her two young daughters in a Flatbush residence, then told a relative he had committed the crime. After getting a tip from the relative, police arrived at the home on Rogers Avenue at around 1 pm today and the suspect — identified as Jermaine Ruiz — reportedly opened the door in clothing "splattered in blood." The Times reports that when officers from the 67th Precinct entered the home they found the bodies of Rogers' 22-year-old partner, as well as her daughters, ages 2 and 5. According to 1010WINS, the bodies were found in the kitchen. Law enforcement sources said the suspect might have been putting the children into plastic garbage bags, and noted: "We think they have been dead for a couple of days." more ›