Early yesterday morning, a Bronx man was shot 10 times by police when he refused to drop his realistic-looking pellet gun after a fight broke out outside a nightclub. Incredibly, none of the bullets hit any of Mamadou Balde's vital organs, and he is in critical but stable condition at Lincoln Hospital. Friends call Balde a "wannabe Blood," his family calls him a "gang member wannabe," but the gentlemen and good ladies at the Post just call him a "gangsta idiot." more ›

A Bronx man who was waving around a pellet gun in the middle of a street fight was shot at least ten times by police early this morning. Police instructed Mamadou Valve to put down his weapon, and when he didn't comply, he was hit by bullets in the torso, legs, buttocks and left elbow; he is currently in critical condition at Lincoln Hospital. more ›

John Gotti, the grandson of the legendary mobster, was in a Queens court room yesterday (wearing a Yankees cap!), facing the music over a Halloween night incident in Howard Beach. The 17-year-old son of Peter Gotti Jr. was busted when he and three passengers in his Infiniti SUV were fleeing the scene after one of them allegedly fired a pellet gun into a group of kids. According to the Post, "Gotti snitched on the trigger man," while the Daily News says he "broke from his family's undying devotion to the Mafia oath of omerta and pinned his legal troubles on a pal he knew only as 'Matt.'" more ›

When you grow up Gotti, getting stopped by cops may be expected, but over a pellet gun? The Post reports that John Gotti's grandson, John Gotti (son of Peter Gotti Jr.), was "busted last night in Queens after cops caught him and three pals fleeing in a car after one of them allegedly fired a pellet gun." Plainclothes cops were in Howard Beach because kids were up to Halloween shenanigans at PS 207—toilet papering and spraying shaving cream—when they "heard a shot and saw four youths fleeing in [a car] driven by the 17-year-old" Gotti. The police recovered a pellet gun that had been recovered from the car; Gotti's 14-, 15-, and 17-year-old passengers weren't ID'd and charges are pending. more ›

The 22-year-old who was shot and killed after he pointed a toy gun at a police officer had drunkenly attempted to steal cough medicine from a pharmacy hours before the fatal confrontation. "He reeked of alcohol," said 33-year-old pharmacist Maya Basin, who claims she forced George D'Amato Jr. out of the Nostrand Houses Pharmacy after he tried to steal Coricidin. "I could tell something was off right away ... He was out of it." more ›

"Everybody here is scared now," downtown bodega worker Primo Dlmn from Morocco tells the Times. "I’m as nervous as I can be, but I’ve got to go to the store. Life goes on." Or does it? A sniper with a high-power BB gun has been terrorizing Avenue D between Third and Fourth Streets during the past week, lodging pellets in a construction worker's skull, shattering car windows, and wounding six others. Now the NYPD says there have been other BB gun shootings in the area, and it looks like there may be some sort of teen pellet gun gang. How street is that? Local mailman James Heckstall says, 'It used to be terrible around here, the Wild West...The neighborhood is getting nicer and nicer. Then, every once in a while, something like this happens, and it makes us look bad." And then someone shoots their eye out. more ›

Some warped punk with a BB gun has been firing at people near the corner of Avenue D and East Third Street during the past week; at least eight people have been shot, and several car windows have been blown out by the sniper. Construction worker Edward Gilyard was shot on Friday, and doctors found two pellets lodged next to his skull. He was at his job site when he felt a sharp pain on his right temple, and tells the Daily News, "I put my hand up there and felt the blood... All of a sudden, I had a little hole in my head." more ›

A police officer was shot early this morning in Brooklyn. The officer was shot in the chest around 3:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the 81st precinct stationhouse near the corners of Ralph Avenue and Quincy Street in Bushwick. The officer was taken to Kings County Hospital and released soon after since the bullet was absorbed by his bulletproof vest. Cops are saying that the weapon was either a pellet gun or a low-caliber firearm, as police are still investigating. more ›