Three male suspects are believed to have stolen around $200,000 from a jeweler at knifepoint when he stopped to fix a flat tire in Woodland Hills on Monday evening. The three men were in a black van with an unknown license plate when they approached the victim around 9 p.m. near the 21100 block of Ventura Boulevard near Canoga Avenue, according to Los Angeles police.
QUEENS, NY - Police are searching for a suspect who shot a 15-year-old boy on a Queens street Tuesday afternoon. The incident happened near the intersection of Springfield Boulevard and Union Turnpike around 2:50 p.m., police said. Officers found the boy with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to Cohen Children's Medical Center in stable condition. The suspect fled the scene after the shooting, police said.
OAKLAND - A man was found fatally shot Tuesday morning in an East Oakland park, authorities said. Authorities were trying to identify the victim and notify any next of kin before publicly releasing his name. He was found dead just before 8 a.m. Tuesday in Arroyo Viejo Park, not far from the entrance at Olive and Ritchie streets. He was pronounced deceased at the scene by paramedics.
Police are searching for a suspect who fatally assaulted a fellow patient inside Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx last month, law enforcement sources said. According to the NYPD, Cynthia Vann, of Concourse Village, was admitted to NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln on Sept. 10 for an unrelated medical condition when she was punched multiple times in the head by another patient as she slept and required emergency surgery. Vann remained hospitalized in critical condition until she died on Sept. 27.
Provincial police say they are investigating a "significant disturbance" that involved pepper spray and multiple altercations in the crowd of a high school football game in Caledon, Ont., Friday. Officers in attendance at Friday night's game at Humberview Secondary School responded around 8 p.m. to reports of pepper spray being deployed amongst "a large gathering of students" in the crowd, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) said in a news release Monday.
Iris Stalzer, the recently elected mayor of Herdecke in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, was discovered critically injured in her apartment, authorities said on Tuesday. Security sources told reporters the center-left Social Democrat politician had suffered several stab wounds. Public broadcaster WDR first reported the incident. Emergency services found Stalzer alive but in life-threatening condition. Police have not released further details about possible suspects or motives.
Angry bystanders confronted a woman cutting down yellow ribbons for Israeli hostages from a fence in north London. The young female is filmed with a pair of scissors which she uses to brazenly snip the memorial bands that the Jewish community have tied to railings. Wearing a navy blue bomber jacket, and clutching a green, white, and purple striped tote bag under her arm, she declares that they are condoning genocide.
A fire in a detached house in northern Munich set off a large emergency operation on Wednesday, with police and firefighters blocking roads and urging residents to avoid the Lerchenau area. Police said a wider investigation was underway that would delay the morning opening of the Munich Oktoberfest beer festival. On the social media platform X, Munich police asked drivers to steer clear of the area while operations continued.
Emergency crews responded to 107 County St. shortly before 7 a.m. for a report of two unresponsive adults, according to Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn's office. There, first responders found the man and woman inside a "workstyle van" in which they appeared to be living. Rehoboth EMS pronounced the man dead at the scene and rushed the woman to Morton Hospital, where she was subsequently transported to a hospital in Boston, the DA's office said in a press release.
We are supporting the next of kin of the people who have died in this very sad incident. Officers are carrying out enquiries to establish exactly what has happened, but we are not seeking anyone else in relation to this matter.
The shooting happened around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday inside Donut Connection on Mermaid Avenue. Video from inside the shop shows the victim, wearing blue, standing near tables when a man in a black hooded shirt approaches from outside and fires. The victim drops to the floor after being hit in the leg. He was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition, according to police.
Two Brooklyn high schools received threats about someone coming to shoot students - and cops are trying to determine if the same caller made both unfounded threats, police said Tuesday. The menacing phone calls were made within minutes of each other, beginning at 8:15 a.m. Monday at Cristo Ray Brooklyn High School, a Catholic high school on E. 37th St. in East Flatbush, and at Brooklyn Prospect High School, a charter school at 3rd St. and Fort Hamilton Parkway in Kensington.
A 32-year-old woman was fatally struck by a vehicle while crossing Woodside Road just after midnight this morning (Sept. 22), Redwood City Police said. The woman was hit while crossing the Woodside Road at Veterans Boulevard around 12:11 a.m., police Lt Jeff Clements said. The driver was traveling eastbound on Woodside Road toward 101, entering the intersection on a green light, when he heard a loud impact, according to Clements.
Copenhagen Airport halted operations after multiple drones were spotted in the area, Danish police said on Monday. "(The airport) is currently closed for take-off and landing, as 2-3 large drones have been seen flying in the area," police said on the platform X. "The time horizon is currently unknown." Danish police were investigating the origin of the dronesImage: Steven Knap/Ritzau Scanpix/picture alliance
ABC10 (KXTV-TV), a Sacramento local TV news station, was struck by gunfire Friday afternoon. According to KCRA 3, the shooting was a drive-by attack. Bullets hit one of the studio's windows but no one was injured, although people were at work in the building at the time. "Just after 130pm, officers responded to reports of shots fired in the 400 block of Broadway at ABC10," read a statement provided to SFGATE by the Sacramento Police Department.
Two women who were apparently related to one another were found dead inside a Walnut Creek home late Thursday night, and police are investigating the matter as a double homicide. Residents of the upscale Walnut Creek neighborhood of Woodlands woke up to an unusual sight early Friday morning, as Walnut Creek Police Department cruisers and police tape coated the street of Kelobra Court.
DALY CITY - A man was stabbed outside a BART station here Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. The victim was taken to the hospital and remained in critical condition Thursday, said Chris Filippi, a communications officer for BART. Around 3:20 p.m. Wednesday, the victim was stabbed near the bus zone outside the Daly City station, authorities said. Police are still investigating the stabbing, Filippi said.
Officers responded that morning to Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School after a caller reported that they were in one of the school bathrooms and had a bomb and an AK-47 assault rifle, Fall River police said on Facebook. The caller also claimed that they were "in crisis," the department said. The school went into lockdown as police rushed to the school to "locate any threats," police said.
Staten Island, NY - Two men are being sought after allegedly distracting and robbing a 43-year-old man inside a Staten Island business earlier this week, police said. The incident occurred Monday around 7:30 p.m. inside a commercial establishment at 341 Port Richmond Avenue. According to police, one man approached the victim and asked him a question while a second man reached into the victim's front pocket and removed cash without permission. The pair then fled on foot toward an unknown location. No injuries were reported.