This is the first picture of a much-loved five-year-old boy killed after being struck by a family friend's electric vehicle that allegedly accelerated on its own accord. A court heard motorist Ashenafei Demissie claims he was sitting in his parked Volkswagen ID.4 when it suddenly sped into Fareed Amir and his own son Raphael, 12, in November 2022. Demissie, 52, denies causing death and serious injury by careless or inconsiderate driving in a car park outside his flat near London Bridge Station, The Times reports.
A 15-month-old boy is dead after police found him unconscious and unresponsive inside a Queens apartment next to his mother, who had slashed her wrists, the NYPD said Monday. Officers responded to the home at 108-33 157th St. in Jamaica just after 1:30 p.m., officials said. They found the 28-year-old mother with wrist injuries and her child unresponsive, according to police. Both were taken to Jamaica Hospital, where the baby was pronounced dead, authorities said.
Bronx detectives are investigating the death of a four-year-old girl on Friday morning. Officers from the 49th Precinct responded to a location near Barnes and Adee Avenues in Williamsbridge at about 9:17 a.m. on Dec. 26 after receiving a 911 call for a female in need of assistance. Upon arriving at the scene, the officers found the four-year-old girl, who was unconscious and unresponsive.
Authorities found the teenager and the suspected attacker suffering from multiple stab wounds after receiving a domestic violence report in a home in Casais, in the Tomar municipality. Moments after arriving at the scene, a suspected gas explosion tore through the house, believed to have been deliberately caused by the attacker, injuring one officer in the process. The teenager was found in cardiorespiratory arrest and pronounced dead at the scene.
A child was reportedly run over by a vehicle on the street Sunday morning in the area between Hayes Valley and Alamo Square, and did not survive his injuries. The collision happened around 10:37 am Sunday, and the city's Department of Emergency Management sent out an alert to avoid the area of Hayes and Webster streets. A vehicle struck the child, police said, but no further information was shared about the accident.
The Department of Children and Families erroneously thought 4-year-old A'zella Ortiz had moved to New York before she was allegedly killed by her father in Worcester last year, a new report says, which argues DCF failed to support her and her siblings for years. "Although the ultimate tragic outcome of this case is rare, in other ways this case is like the vast majority of DCF cases," the new report from the state's Office of the Child Advocate said.
Detectives believe the innocent child, Tadhg Farrell, and his grandaunt Mary Holt were murdered in the attack carried out by a local drugs gang as part of an intimidation campaign Gardaí have issued a nationwide alert for all units to be on the lookout for a getaway vehicle used by a gang that firebombed an innocent family's home, killing a four-year-old boy and his grandaunt.
Detectives believe the innocent child, Tadhg Farrell, and his grandaunt Mary Holt were murdered in the attack carried out by a local drugs gang as part of an intimidation campaign
Stoneham police are investigating a crash that occurred Friday afternoon and claimed the life of a child. At about 4:30 p.m., a 73-year-old driver was turning left off of Oak Street onto Royal Street when an electric dirt bike struck his car, according to the Middlesex District Attorney's Office and Stoneham Police Chief James O'Connor. The 13-year-old boy who was riding the dirt bike was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to officials.
A 13-year-old boy was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in Dana Point while on his way to school Tuesday morning, authorities said. The crash took place around 8:15 a.m. The child was struck as he stood with his brother on the safety island between Park Lantern and Dana Point Harbor Drive, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
A boy with severe autism who died in a fire in Oshawa earlier this month was a joyful and friendly child who loved dancing to Disney songs and playing dress up, his mother said. Bentley Dunn, 11, was found dead inside a trailer that had caught fire on Oct. 18. He loved to run around and be free, he was very much a free spirit, said his mother, Amanda Dunn.
A woman in a life-threatening condition is under police watch in hospital after a nine-year-old girl died and two other children were hurt. Police were called to a property in Middle Street, Islip, at 11.15am on Tuesday after receiving reports that three children had been assaulted. A spokesperson for Thames Valley Police said the nine-year-old girl was pronounced dead at the scene in the Oxfordshire village, while a boy and a girl were taken to hospital for treatment before later being discharged.
At about 7:10 p.m., first responders received calls about a crash at 400 Broadway. When they arrived, they found a white Chevy van and a blue Toyota RAV4 that had collided head-on and sustained serious damage, according to Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn's office. The van was "located centered in the northbound lane in the correct direction of travel," officials said. The Toyota "appeared to have crashed into the white van."
