Police sources say Officer Richard Haste, who fatally shot an unarmed teen named Ramarley Graham in the bathroom of his Bronx home earlier this month, had no training in street level narcotics enforcement or plainclothes cop work. Officers assigned to the NYPD’s 36 Street Narcotics Enforcement Units are required to undergo several days of training, but even that is seen as insufficient by some NYPD members. "It's nonsense," one cop who completed the training tells the Post. "They want people arrested. They want numbers." more ›

Hundreds of people gathered outside the 47th Precinct station house last night to protest Thursday's killing of 18-year-old Ramarley Graham at the hands of an NYPD officer. Marching from the family's home on East 229th Street, the crowd chanted "NYPD KKK" and "No Justice, no peace!" According to the Times, Graham's sister Leona Virgo addressed the crowd. "This is not just about Ramarley," she said. "This is about all young black men." more ›

Surveillance video outside the Bronx home of Ramarley Graham shows police struggling to enter the residence and kicking in a door moments before an NYPD officer shot and killed the unarmed 18-year-old in his bathroom. While surveillance footage from a neighboring home showed Graham running down the street with police pursuing, this footage obtained by WPIX 11 shows Graham casually entering his house. Seconds later two NYPD officers with their guns drawn attempt to break down the door. more ›

For the third time in a week, an NYPD officer has shot and killed a suspect. Yesterday an unidentified officer killed 18-year-old Ramarley Graham with a single bullet to the chest. The officer, a member of the narcotics unit, had chased Graham into his home, seen him flush something down a toilet and reportedly saw him make "furtive" movements, apparently prompting the cop to fire. Graham—who lived with his mother, grandmother and 6-year-old brother—was immediately mourned by family and neighbors. "Nobody deserves to get shot like that, in your own house," his bereaved mother, Constance Malcolm, cried to reporters. more ›

Luis "Baby" Ortiz, who is accused of shooting NYPD officer Kevin Brennan in the head Tuesday night at the Bushwick Houses, showed no remorse as he was escorted out of the 90th Precinct station house yesterday afternoon. "Yeah, take a picture of me," Ortiz, 21, told photographers during the perp walk as he smiled, blew kisses to family and friends, and mugged for the cameras. In Spanish, he yelled "I love the Latin Kings," adding, "You know what it is," according to the Daily News. His angry supporters also showed little remorse. more ›

A pregnant 16-year-old was shot outside her apartment on Stanton Street yesterday afternoon in an altercation with her boyfriend. Kimberly Valasquez, who is two months pregnant, was shot shortly after 2:00 p.m. in the second-floor hallway at 210 Stanton Street and was rushed to Bellevue soon after. "Her boyfriend shot her," a girl who identified herself as Valasquez's best friend told the Daily News. "She's out of surgery now—she and the baby are going to be okay." 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 ›

A Brooklyn father was fatally shot by police yesterday while investigating a possible break-in at his home. Dwayne Browne, 27, was shot once in the chest by police around 10:40 p.m. in East New York last night. "The officers told me they had to shoot him,'' his girlfriend Juanita told the Daily News. "They kept calling him the shooter. The officer said, 'I'm sorry. It was one of us. But he wouldn't put the gun down.'" more ›

On Thursday night, an 11-year-old Bronx boy was shot in the stomach by a bullet that came through the door of his second-floor apartment. Today, police said they have arrested 17-year-old suspect Kijana Jenkins, one of the two alleged shooters. He was charged with assault, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment. While his accomplice is still at large, victim Ryan Aguirre is recovering from the incident: “He is doing much better. We’re all still praying for him, but he’s feeling much better," his mother told the Daily News. more ›

A Brooklyn officer who fatally shot a pit bull who attacked him and his partner has been docked 10 vacation days after a two-and-a-half year investigation. Officer Andre Jeter pleaded guilty to departmental charges in the 2009 shooting of the pit bull, to avoid an NYPD trial. Jeter was accused of shooting the dog an excessive number of times during the altercation. “It is an unusually heavy penalty for a dog shooting. But it shows how they go over every shooting with a fine-tooth comb,” a police source told the News. more ›

An 18-year-old Harlem teen was shot dead early Friday morning outside his girlfriend's birthday party by an alleged romantic rival. Walter Sumpter was found with a gunshot wound to the chest outside 254 W. 154th St. just after midnight Friday. The shooting took place outside his girlfriend's 17th birthday party at a local community center: “It all took place outside. The girl wasn’t there, but it looks like a friend of the gunman called him and told him [Sumpter] was there,” a source told the News. more ›

Cops in the Bronx got a break last night after a 16-year-old chose to shoot a 19-year-old man multiple times early this morning directly outside of a police precinct. The shots were fired just after 1:25 a.m., according to the NYPD, and the perp was nabbed soon after. more ›

James Ramseur, one of the teens shot by "Subway Vigilante" Bernhard Goetz in 1984, died in an apparent suicide 27 years to the day of the Goetz shooting. Goetz told us in an e-mail, "It sounds like he was depressed." more ›

Two men were found fatally shot, and a third wounded, early this morning in Long Island. Police say that two of the victims, who were in their 20s, were found sitting in a 1998 Nissan Altiman around 2:50 a.m. this morning; both were pronounced dead at the scene in Brentwood. "This is usually a very quiet area, nothing like this," John Rueb III told Newsday. more ›

At this point, Google Street View lets anyone with Internet access take a gander at pretty much every street in every major city in the world. BORING! Thankfully, some clever web developers have put this technology to good use, by adding a virtual machine gun to the mix. Behold Google Shoot View, which lets users "explore the beauty of the world's cities, towns and villages through 360-degree street-level imagery... and fire a M4A1 assault rifle." Here's video showing how it works (not that it's particularly complicated, you just point and shoot): more ›

[Update Below] One man is dead and another is in critical condition after an incident in the Fulton Houses complex in Chelsea this morning. According to the NYPD, reports of shots fired were called into 911 at 10:53 a.m.. By the time the police arrived on the scene one man was already dead with a gunshot wound to his head—it is currently unclear if the injury was self-inflicted. more ›

New Jersey police fatally shot an escaped prisoner who broke loose from police custody yesterday afternoon. The suspect, who has not been identified yet, was arrested earlier yesterday in Garfield for domestic abuse. Diana Copin told ABC that her family watched as police chased the prisoner: "They saw the cops chasing someone in the backyard," she said. more ›

Newark police and the Essex County Prosecutor's Office say that an off-duty Newark police officer shot a man who was trying to carjack him. The cop had been sitting in his car (wearing street clothes) near 17 Avenue A when two men approached him, demanding his car while brandishing a gun. more ›

Yesterday, an off-duty cop shot an ex-con with a long rap sheet during a confrontation at a Harlem subway station after two teenager girls accused him of groping them. Jacob Sanford, 22, is accused of groping the two teens on their buttocks in the subway station at 125th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue around noon yesterday. And in the ensuing struggle with the off-duty officer who arrested him, Sanford was himself shot in the butt. more ›

A man was shot twice in the courtyard of the NYCHA's Campos Plaza complex last night in Alphabet City. At 12:13 a.m. police received several 911 calls indicating that around six shots had been fired, and that someone who may have been the shooter was last seen running towards 12th Street. The victim, whose name has not yet been released, was shot once in each leg and was taken by car to Beth Israel. more ›

An off-duty cop shot and apprehended a suspected groper in a subway station in Harlem today. The shooting happened on the platform of an A train at the 125th Street station just after 12:30 p.m. According to the News, a mother screamed that her teen daughter had just been groped, and a second woman also came forward that she had been groped. The officer spotted the suspect sitting on a bench in front of the train: “As he approaches [the suspect] the officer identifies himself as a police officer,” said NYPD spokesman Paul Browne. “A struggle ensues and one round is discharged from the officer’s gun, striking the suspect in the [buttocks].“ more ›

[UPDATES BELOW] The campus of Virginia Tech, where a student fatally shot 32 people and wounded dozens of others in 2007, is again besieged by an armed gunman. According to the campus newspaper a police officer has been shot and killed, and there are other reports that a second person has been wounded. Students and faculty are being advised to stay indoors, and a campus bulletin obtained by the Times says the shooter was last seen traveling on foot in the direction of a recreational sports. He's described as a “white male, grey sweatpants, grey hat w/neon green brim, maroon hoodie and backpack.” 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 ›

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 father of the 21-month old girl who was shot in the face in the crossfire of a Staten Island shootout in September was caught yesterday with 66 baggies of crack and cocaine strapped to his genitals with a rubber band. Michael Bailey, 28, was stopped by police for erratic driving yesterday, and arrested for pot possession—but when police searched him, they found the other narcotics. “I do what I have to, to make money and survive,” Bailey allegedly told police, according to the Post. more ›

A Bronx nightclub bouncer was fatally shot early this morning, allegedly by a patron who he had kicked out earlier. According to witnesses, the gunman was one of four men who were kicked out of the Pit Lounge on White Plains Road in Soundview by the 26-year-old bouncer after they got into a fight last night. “I said, ‘They’re gonna come back with a gun, I know it,' " Louie, a clubgoer who declined to give his last name, told the News. “And sure enough, they did.” 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 ›

Police discovered the body of a Queens man who was shot nine times execution-style at Howard Beach early this morning. Police haven't released the name of the 29-year-old Hispanic male, but a witness described what happened to the Daily News: “Two of the guys walk up to the car and popped him again while he’s in the car. After they popped him you heard his head hit the horn. His foot was still on the gas and the car kept pushing and pushing the other car,” said the witness, who called 911 as he watched the scene play out from his bedroom window. 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 ›