The suspect wanted in the killing of a Staten Island man at his own engagement party was arrested in Chicago. Redinal Dervishaj was "tracked there by members of the New York-New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task force and NYPD detectives, with assistance from the Cook County Sheriff's office," sources told the Staten Island Advance. And the Daily News reports, "One source said Dervishaj has relatives who live in the area." more ›

More details have emerged about the U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, last week. According to the AP, 38-year-old father of two Robert Bales had, "joined the Army after a Florida investment job went sour, had a Seattle-area home condemned, struggled to make payments on another and failed to get a promotion or a transfer a year ago." 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 ›

The Brooklyn man who allegedly confessed to cops that he killed a 73-year-old neighbor by setting her on fire in a Prospect Heights elevator appeared in court yesterday. Jerome Isaac, 47, was seen with burns on the left side of his face more ›

A Long Island City woman pleaded guilty to shooting and killing her sister the night of her sister's 27th birthday party. Melanie Webb, 25, admitted to fatally shooting her sister Tara Webb, as well as non-fatally shooting her sister's boyfriend Terrell Carmichael on March 26 in the Long Island City apartment they all shared. No motive was given for the shooting. more ›

[Update Below] A 73-year-old East Harlem granny was found dead in her apartment yesterday, tied up and suffocated with plastic. Though police are still investigating, it appears Julia Hernandez was murdered for a flat screen TV, some jewelry and some cash. "Whoever killed her, you’re going to get it and we’re going to find you," one of Hernandez's daughters, Elaine, told reporters last night. 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 ›

A Harlem man was sentenced to 21 years in prison yesterday for the shooting of his former best friend after the two had a falling out over Twitter. Jameg Blake, 24, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of friend Kwame Dancy in December 2009. "I just wish I had better judgment than pulling a gun out on my best friend. My ego would not let me back down," Blake told a Manhattan judge yesterday. more ›

A Massachusetts resident arrested—and being held on $5 million bail—for allegedly killing a woman while she was walking a quiet suburban NJ street with her husband and three-year-old son has given a jailhouse interview with the Daily News. Antoinette Stephen, 26, denied shooting Nazish Noorani—"No! No!"—but did have something to say to Noorani's relatives: "I'm sorry." more ›

Police have raided a Long Island home in connection with its investigation of Sunday's horrific quadruple murder at a Medford pharmacy and apparently made an arrest. The Haven Drugs' pharmacist and pharmacy worker, as well as two customers, were killed execution-style by a man who left with prescription drugs. The Daily News reports, "The still unidentified man was hauled out of the Medford, L.I., home by police officers who had massed in front of the residence before barging inside." more ›

A New York City resident who was accused of fatally shooting a man in a Harvard University dorm two years ago was found guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Prosecutors claimed that Jabrai Jordan Copney, 22, and two other men (who made deals with prosecutors) lured Justin Cosby, a drug dealer, in the basement of the Kirkland House dorm to steal marijuana from him at gunpoint. more ›

Here's a little more to consider in the murder of Julio Locarno: He was just released from Rikers Island on $125,000 bail last Friday. Locarno, who was shot in the head near Prospect Park on Wednesday night, had been charged in the killing of disgraced EMT Jason Green—Locarno and Green had apparently been arguing over a parking space in Soho last July. The NY Times reports, "It was not clear if Mr. Locarno’s death was connected to the earlier killing, which remains an open case." more ›

In 1983 Brooklyn mechanic Godfrey Agius was fatally stabbed by a home intruder. His body was discovered by a mailman, evidence was recovered from the scene, and well, that was that. Even though the case remains unsolved, Godfrey's brother Reginald Agius has visited the 69th Precinct stationhouse every few months to check on the investigation. But on December 22nd, he was told that police had thrown out all evidence of the case 15 years ago. Reginald Agius told the Daily News, "What right does the Police Department have to throw away evidence on a murder case? They know murder cases are never closed. There's no statute of limitations....I want justice." more ›

Yesterday, Jeromie Cancel was sentenced to 25 years for killing a 19-year-old Pace University student in 2008. Cancel was found guilty of strangling Kevin Pravia in Pravia's Chelsea apartment—Cancel also admitted to staying in the apartment to watch a horror movie— and his murder victim's family were aghast at his boisterous behavior during the sentencing. Pravia's brother yelled at Cancel, who had been giggling, "I'll f---ing kill you, mother-f---er!" Cancel replied, "Come see me on Riker's Island!" which led to Pravia's father to say, "I'll see you in hell!" more ›

Residents are mourning the murder of Mervyn Johnson, who ran the West Indian bakery Merv's Bakery in Crown Heights. Johnson was apparently walking from his Nostrand Avenue business back home when he was shot in the head at Lefferts and Brooklyn Avenues on Tuesday night. Police have reportedly found the gun used: WABC 7 reports, "Sources say police have surveillance video that may show the suspected killer stashing the gun on a light box on nearby Sterling Street." more ›

Michael Brea, the actor who allegedly stabbed his mother to death with a Masonic sword in their Prospect Height apartment, remains in Bellevue Hospital after the Tuesday morning killing. His father was in shock, telling the Daily News, "The son I raised would never kill his mother. I don't know what happened. I don't know... It is very hard for the entire family. She was a lovely mother and had a very close relationship with Michael. She loved him dearly." more ›

Yesterday, a Brooklyn jury watched videotape of a 16-year-old explaining how he killed WABC Radio newsman George Weber. John Katehis, who is now 17 and on trial for Weber's murder, claimed it was an accident, saying on tape, "The knife just goes and jabs him in the neck. We're fighting over the blade and it jabbed him in the neck," but a doctor testified that Weber was stabbed eight times in the neck, not to mentioned dozens more times elsewhere. more ›

The 30-year-old Staten Island resident, who police believe killed his parents in their Staten Island home on Wednesday night, was arrested in Israel today. Eric Bellucci, described as a "brilliant but troubled" Stuyvesant High School and Williams College grad, was spotted by an airport employee at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv at 2:30 a.m. EST. He was "trying to book a flight to Beijing, China via Istanbul on Turkish Air" with his credit card, but when that didn't work, he attempted to get cash and was reportedly acting suspiciously. more ›

The Humane Society of the U.S. has announced they're offering a reward for the Canada geese killings in Westchester County. Allegedly four geese were killed in Cortlandt on Wednesday of last week, and they're offering $2,500 for any information that helps unveils the killer. Here's the information they have so far: more ›

Just two nights after Queens saw three killings, three more are dead across Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. Surveillance footage shows two men entering a Mobil gas station on Roosevelt Avenue in Flushing at 1:39 a.m. this morning, shooting Pakistani immigrant Nadeem Khan in the chest, then leaving without taking anything. Police suspect Khan may have been involved in a dispute with local thugs, but those who knew him are in disbelief. The store's manager Balvinder Singh told the Daily News, "They just walked in and shot him." The paper released surveillance footage of the two killers: more ›

A member of the Hells Angels was found dead on 28th street and Ditmars Boulevard Saturday morning, with several gunshot wounds to his head and bloody footprints where his face had been stomped in. "It looked like a cherry pie," one local told the Post. The "execution-style" shooting happened around 5 a.m., and witnesses say the killer repeatedly kicked victim John Giampetruzzi as he lay on the ground. The shooting was the latest in a series of unrelated killings in the borough over Friday night. more ›

July weekends are turning out to be deadly periods for the city, as four people were murdered in the course of a few predawn hours on Sunday. Just after midnight, Nazario Bleu was shot in the torso near the Pelham Parkway Houses in the Bronx. A second man was shot as well, though he managed to reach a nearby building to call 911, and remains in stable condition. Bleu was declared dead at the scene. Unfortunately, this was just the first of the night's shootings. more ›

Newark resident Oquan Blake was arrested for allegedly raping and killing the 7-month-old baby girl of a woman he once dated. Blake, who was recently released from jail and has a "dozen arrests for drug and weapons charges," was reportedly upset that the baby's mother spent time with her friend. According to the Star-Ledger, "The baby’s 21-year-old mother, who was planning to attend an event in Manhattan for Gay Pride Week, instead spent the day at a female friend’s home in Newark, authorities said." When the mother returned, she called police because the baby was unresponsive: "The infant was taken to University Hospital in Newark with a fractured skull, ruptured spleen, broken ribs, bruising to the spine and a lacerated liver." more ›

Police are still searching for a suspect in the killing of 16-year-old Al-Taya Conyers, who was found shot in the head outside a Boerum Hill church on Warren and Bond Streets. WCBS 2 reports, "Witnesses who did not want to be identified told CBS 2 they saw it happen. They heard two sets of shots and saw a man in a red t-shirt dragging the girl by her ponytail as she begged for her life." more ›

Jeffrey Conroy, the Long Island teen who was convicted of manslaughter as a hate crime for fatally stabbing an Ecuadorean immigrant in 2008, was sentenced to 25 years in prison yesterday. His father raged at the at the sentence, running out of the courtroom and yelling, "He was f---ing 17. This is mercy for crying out loud? Jesus, f---ing, Christ! Jesus Christ!" more ›

Jeffrey Conroy, the 19-year-old Long Island resident accused of killing immigrant Marcelo Lucero (pictured) in a 2008 hate crime attack, told a courtroom today that he was just holding a knife for the real killer: "[Christopher Overton] said, ‘Jeff, I think I just stabbed the guy in the shoulder. I really cannot get in trouble with this. Can you please take the knife?’" Newsday reports that the judge allowed the testimony because it would allow the jury insight into Conroy's "state of mind" but he told jurors not to weigh the "truth or falsity" of the testimony. Conroy, who faces charges including second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter as hate crime, also said he lied to police in his statement confessing the crime. 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 ›

A prison term of 20 years to life will end for the man who shot Malcom X at Manhattan’s Audobun Ballroom in 1965. Thomas Hagan, who’s applied for parole 16 times, had his request granted yesterday. He's already been on a work-release program and spends only two days/week in jail, but on April 28, the 69-year-old will walk free. One of the slain civil rights icon’s daughters, Illyasah Shabazz,spoke last night at the scene of his death and said she was ready to forgive Hagan, a former militant member of the Nation of Islam: "I would really think that at this point in his life he's regretful for having been a pawn, one of the pawns in killing my father." Two other men who were implicated in the killing, but didn't confess, were released twenty years ago. more ›

Police believe a man killed in a drive-by shooting in Baychester yesterday might have been targeted because he allegedly owed money to a drug dealer. The victim—described as a black man in his 40s—was driving a Chevrolet Impala when a dark sedan pulled up beside him at the corner of Eastchester and E. Gun Hill roads at 12:15 p.m. and fired several shots, the Daily News reports. The victim's car then rolled into a sidewalk and flipped over. "I saw a man inside. He was bleeding profusely from his nose and ears. He was not moving at all," said Kelvin Akpovwa, 27, who tried to pull the victim from the vehicle. "In this neighborhood, I've seen accidents but never violence like this." more ›

During jury selection for a Long Island hate crime—in which an Ecuadorean man was stabbed to death by seven teenagers—numerous potential jurors were only too happy to identify themselves as racially biased. Many cited a conservative stance on immigration as evidence they couldn’t make a fair decision in the killing of an illegal resident. As one prospective juror after another was dismissed, the scene may have reflected more about the community than about the case. One, who was dismissed for other reasons, said, “I don’t care whether the man was legal, illegal, white, black, purple or green. There was a murder. It almost seemed like the poor victim was the one going on trial.” more ›