In late September a 700-lb, short-finned pilot whale was discovered dead in Allenhurst, New Jersey (as the AP notes, they are part of the dolphin family). According to NJ.com, a necropsy determined that the whale had been shot. With a bullet. In the jaw. The injury made it unable for him to eat, and eventually he was found dead from starvation, and with a "massive infection." more ›

Everyone deals with broken hearts in a different way: some people hire their friends to shoot them in the back to win their ex's sympathy, while other people prefer hiring perfect strangers to shoot them for the same purpose. A Staten Island man who was brokenhearted over his ex-girlfriend allegedly hired some strangers to shoot him to win back his ex. more ›

A man was shot and killed at a Queens barber shop yesterday early morning, in the same location where he was shot trying to fell a robbery-turned-murder last summer. Gary Bowlin, 35, was shot execution-style in the bathroom of the Rob NG Cutz barber shop on 135th St. in South Richmond Hill. The barber shop turns into a gambling den after hours; another man was shot during the melee, but is in stable condition. more ›

A Brooklyn dog lover who successfully sued the city in a police brutality case was found shot dead in her apartment building vestibule late Monday night. Relatives believe that Ashante Goodwin, 23, was trying to escape an attacker outside her Herkimer St. apartment in Brownsville. Goodwin had several prior arrests on her record, but family members and police could not pinpoint any motive for the murder. "She was a good person. She had no problems. I don't know what happened," her brother, Johnathan Goodwin, 16, told the News. more ›

A 10-year-old boy was the latest victim of stray bullets from a gang shootout last night in Brooklyn. Khalil Robinson was watching TV in his first floor East New York apartment when he was struck by two bullets, once in the neck and once in the shoulder. more ›

A 9-year-old boy in Brooklyn may have a bullet permanently lodged in his arm after being shot by a teenage bike thief. Ronnell Gurley discovered that his uncle's silver BMX bike had been stolen on Thursday afternoon (his cousins had allegedly taken it out, and it was stolen from outside of a convenience store in Brownsville), and he and his uncle set out to find the thieves. A few hours later they found the teens and demanded they returned the bike. According to Ronnell, one teen claimed he "runs this block," and pulled out a gun. more ›

Yesterday morning a Canada goose was spotted around Prospect Park lake with an arrow, or dart, through its neck. This is sadly not very shocking considering the area has been plagued with animal injuries and deaths this year. more ›

The man who shot and killed a 4-year-old pit bull on Long Island is speaking out and defending his actions. Yesterday it was reported that Timothy Devine was waiting for his daughter to get home from school (it turns out she's 18-years-old), when he saw the pit bull following a child on a bike. He called 911, but ended up shooting the dog, which he described as being "very agitated," before they arrived. more ›

At first glance, Matthew Ortiz's lawsuit makes sense: He was shot in the leg at an Italian street festival in Ridgewood back in 2008, and wants the NYPD to pay up. But the thing is, the police didn't shoot Ortiz; he caught a bullet from random gunfire in the crowd. Nevertheless, his lawyer says the cops, not the perps, are to blame. "There were a number of mini-riots, and the police presence was practically nonexistent," attorney David Harrison tells the Post. "If stuff going on gets worse and worse... it's negligence. " If Ortiz cashes in, expect future lawsuits against the NYPD for failing to save New Yorkers from such dangers as flying pillows. more ›

The coverage over at Newsday (subscription only) makes the beached whale euthanization sound like a murder mystery! They report, "Three shots rang out on the East Hampton beach Friday where a humpback whale juvenile has been stranded since Tuesday, but it was not clear if the whale had been shot or what it may have been shot with." more ›

Last night police officers shot and killed a man in his Bronx apartment to stop him from beating his mother with a frying pan. Relatives of the 61-year-old woman had called 911 to say they were "concerned," and when police arrived at around 11 p.m. at 3055 Third Avenue, they heard the disturbance from within the apartment. The superintendent unlocked the door, but it was chained shut on the inside; through the opening, they saw an unidentified 32-year-old man standing over the injured woman, City Room reports. more ›

A drugged-out Bronx man who goes by the "street name" Nova allegedly shot his girlfriend in the face Saturday night after she complained about his religious exhortations. Witness Jordan Miles, 17, says he was playing video games with 30-year-old Anthony Jimenez (AKA Nova) in his apartment when he started yelling on his cell phone, "God is great! God is great!" The ravings awakened his girlfriend, Anna Radzimirski, 25, who made a call on her cell phone complaining to a friend that Nova was high on drugs. This sent her boyfriend into a murderous rage. more ›

The teenage son of a school safety officer was fatally shot last night while walking his dog in East Flatbush. A gunman approached Pharley Petigny, 19, from behind while he walked his pit bull-Rottweiler mix along Beverley Road near East 31st Street around 7 p.m. and fired a single gunshot into his head. more ›

During her first interview since taking a stray bullet to the skull in November, 16-year-old Vada Vasquez called attention to the paramedics who saved her life, telling the Daily News she was "just really happy" someone was holding her hand as she was lying on the sidewalk with blood pouring out of her head. That someone was paramedic Pierre Ramos, and the News tracked him down yesterday for an interview made even more heartwarming in light of this week's other story, of EMTs who allegedly turned their back on a dying woman. more ›

This morning the body of 29-year-old drummer Troy Young (of the band Curious Mishap) was found dead, with a bullet wound in his head, inside of his Carroll Gardens apartment. NY1 reports that police are currently investigating the shooting death. They only discovered the body this morning, after receiving a missing persons report. more ›

The family of Vada Vasquez, the 15-year-old Bronx girl who took a stray bullet to the skull last Monday, declined their usual Thanksgiving feast this year, postponing it until the teen can eat again. But the five young men accused of involvement in the shooting were given a seemingly generous Thanksgiving meal in jail yesterday. Dinner included turkey with dressing, yams, steamed greens and carrot cake! more ›

Reclining her hospital bed yesterday, the 66-year-old Harlem woman who took a stray bullet in the leg in Harlem Wednesday sent a strong message to Mayor Bloomberg about what Harlem needs: "Bloomberg's getting in there and making the place look fancy and all of that, but it's not safe and people won't want to come here," Virginia Valree told the Daily News. more ›

A Manhattan teenager with no criminal record is suing the city for $1 million because cops arrested and taunted him as "Plaxico Burress" after he got shot in a robbery. Christian Dudley doesn't even own a gun, but that didn't matter to the officers who collared him after the Harlem mugging earlier this year. He was arrested in a Washington Heights hospital where he was waiting to get the bullet removed from the back of his knee—instead of surgery, he got dragged to the precinct on a charge of criminal possession of a weapon. And that's where the fun really started. more ›

A murderous Harlem man died in a hail of NYPD bullets last night, after apparently stabbing two men, one fatally. Police arrived at the West 144th Street building around 6:45 last night to find one victim standing outside with stab wounds to his hand and torso, and later discovered another victim stabbed to death in his apartment near his two-year-old, who was unharmed. more ›

A 17-year-old boy was reportedly shot in the back by NYPD officers patrolling the Gouverneur Morris Houses in the Bronx last night around 9:30. Police say they spotted Peter Colon carrying a .22-caliber gun in a stairwell of the housing project, and when a female officer reached for the gun, Colon fought back. The Daily News, which reports Colon's age as 19, says the teen hit the female cop in the face and pointed the gun at her. At that point, her partner then shot at Colon twice, hitting him once in the back. more ›

Swine flu has spread nationwide, and cases are rapidly rising in many parts of the country, according to an announcement yesterday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There is significant flu activity in virtually all states," says Dr. Anne Schuch at the CDC. "It's quite unusual for this time of year." It was also announced yesterday that a 23-year-old recruit in basic training in Fort Jackson, S.C., has become the Army’s first swine flu death. Specialist Christopher M. Hog died of pneumonia on September 10th, and swine flu was found on autopsy. more ›

A 15-year-old Brooklyn boy was arrested yesterday after accidentally shooting himself in the penis. The Post's stupid headline is, "So much for packing a, um, rod," and there are going to be plenty of bad jokes about going off half-cocked in the comments, but we can't help but pity the kid. Khamir Grant told cops he was walking home from Amersfort Park in East Flatbush around 1:30 a.m. Sunday with a gun in his waistband when the piece began to slip into his pants. When Grant grabbed for it, he accidentally pulled the trigger, firing a bullet "right through his penis," in the Post's words. Grant staggered home, told his mother what happened, and they took a livery car to Kings County Hospital, where Grant was released after treatment and then arrested. He's charged with reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon—the same charges levied against Plaxico Burress, who last year shot himself in a nightclub under similar circumstances, albeit with less catastrophic results. more ›

A delivery man for Brooklyn restaurant Sushi Tatsu on Franklin Avenue (in Crown Heights? Prospect Heights? Discuss.) was in the wrong place at the wrong time last night—right outside his restaurant. Police say Lin Jun, 21, was in front of Sushi Tatsu around 7:30 p.m. when he got caught in the crossfire between warring drug dealers. Jun took at least one bullet in the stomach, staggered into the restaurant and collapsed in a pool of blood. Sushi Tatsu manager Helen Wong tells the Daily News, "It took the ambulance 15 minutes to get here, I can't believe it." Jun's currently in critical condition at Kings County Hospital. An unidentified second man, whom police say was the intended target, was shot in the shoulder and is listed in stable condition at the same hospital. And the perpetrators are still at large. more ›

Officer Rodney Lewis and his partner Mark Bublin were responding to a domestic dispute in Ridgewood early Sunday morning when a suspect's handgun accidentally discharged during a scuffle, wounding Lewis under his left arm. According to WABC, it all started around 11 p.m. Saturday during a family party, when Marcello Campana, who identifies herself as a woman named Hazel, got into an argument with her reportedly violent boyfriend Carlos. more ›

A Suffolk County deputy sheriff shot an accused fugitive in Queens yesterday morning as a federal task force was taking him into custody. Charles Mitchell, wanted on a felony drug warrant, was being escorted by two officers to a police car in Cambria Heights when he "appeared to tug at the waistband of his droopy pants," sources tell ABC7. Mitchell had not yet been handcuffed, and it's unclear if he was actually armed. According to the Post, the officer who fired the round into Mitchell's lower abdomen is a 13-year veteran of the Suffolk County Sheriff's office and assigned to the US Marshals Violent Felony Task Force. Paramedics took Mitchell, 28, to Jamaica Hospital, where he was in stable condition. (The Post's source says he had jumped parole and was wanted for an attempted murder.) A witness, 62-year-old Patricia Humphrey, tells the Daily News that "the kid had nothing but a McDonald's bag in his hand. The man who did it looked stunned, too." more ›

Two potential witnesses who took cellphone video in the moments following last month's fatal cop-on-cop shooting in Harlem were told to leave by an officer at the crime scene, WABC reports. The two men, who showed the video to reporters but requested anonymity, say they were in a vehicle at a stoplight where Officer Omar Edwards chased the man who broke into his car. They didn't see the shooting because their view was blocked by another vehicle, but they heard the gunshots. more ›

Sources tell NY1 that three witnesses heard the officer who fatally shot an armed, plainclothes off-duty officer In Harlem Thursday night identify himself as NYPD. Those three witnesses include the two other cops who arrived on the scene with officer Andrew who fired and the car break-in suspect that slain Officer Omar Edwards was chasing, Migueal Goitia. According to the Post, Goitia [earlier identified with the last name alias "Santiago"] has been hospitalized several times for unknown reasons since his arrest. more ›

A white cop fatally shot a black off-duty officer in plainclothes who was chasing a robbery suspect in East Harlem last night. The victim, a recently married father of a 1-year-old and 7-month-old from Brooklyn named Omar Edwards, had been an NYPD officer for two years and patrolled housing projects as part of the Housing Bureau Impact Response Team. Police sources say that when Edwards left duty and went to his car around 10:30 p.m., he found his driver's side window broken and a man inside searching for valuables. According to the Post, he called 911 before confronting the thief. more ›

Surveillance video obtained by the Post depicts the early Sunday morning shooting of a teenage Harlem father who died on the very streets he struggled and failed to escape. Police say 17-year-old Cory Squire, the father of a 3-year-old boy, died after being shot once in the head from behind on West 141st Street around 4:30 a.m. Sunday. His distraught 18-year-old girlfriend tells the tabloid that Squire had tried to sever ties with the Bloods after their son was born, and even "joined the Job Corps and was training to be an electrician, but he always knew the only way he could get out of that gang was the way he got out." more ›