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A quadruple amputee shot and killed a passenger during an argument over drugs, guns, and a woman while driving in Maryland.
Defense attorney Jamal Johnson claimed, 'All of the [Command Response Team] officers in this case, they are invested. They have a motive to lie.' This statement was made during the trial of Guy Rivera, accused of killing NYPD officer Jonathan Diller.
The 49-year-old security guard was shot twice in the chest near E. 28th Street and Madison Avenue around 12:30 p.m. The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment and is expected to survive.
According to the NYPD, responding officers found a 38-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his left leg at around 12:30 a.m. He was taken to a hospital and is expected to recover. Police say there are no arrests or suspect descriptions at this time.
Shots rang out on the busy shopping street near 445 Albee Square shortly after 2 p.m, police said. The victim, a 30-year-old woman, was struck in the lower leg in the chaos. When officers arrived on the scene, the woman was conscious and alert, per the NYPD.
Based on the preliminary investigation, the motive is believed to be a dispute between the suspect and the victim over a mutual female acquaintance. Detectives are continuing this investigation to gain more insight, as well as to collect and analyze evidence.
The 21-year-old man who was shot and killed after having entered Donald Trump's Florida resort on Sunday while carrying a shotgun came from a North Carolina family of the president's supporters and had reportedly become increasingly fixated on the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files. The focus of the FBI's investigation into the intrusion attributed to Austin Tucker Martin is tightening on the his movements and motives.
A 34-year-old transient was shot Wednesday night in East Oakland while he was collecting cans, authorities said. The man was in stable condition at a hospital Thursday, where he was being treated for a gunshot wound to his leg. The shooting happened about 8:10 p.m. Wednesday in the 1800 block of 73rd Avenue, not far from International Boulevard. The man told police he was collecting cans in the area to earn some money when he heard a loud noise and realized he had been shot.
Police are looking for two men in connection with a shooting on Boston Road in the Morrisania section of the Bronx on Monday evening. Authorities said the incident occurred in front of 1272 Boston Road at about 5:05 p.m., when one individual handed a firearm to another, who then fired multiple shots, striking an unoccupied vehicle. The two men fled north on Boston Road. No injuries were reported.
Tragedy occurred today in East New York, Brooklyn, when two 24-year-old men were shot inside a home on Euclid Avenue shortly after midnight. One man, identified by police as Jarell Sutton, was shot in the chest and later pronounced dead at the hospital. The second man sustained a foot injury. No arrests have been reported at this time, according to ABC7NY.
Three men were hit by bullets, including a 30-year-old victim who'd been shot in the head, and a fourth man was stabbed in the armpit during three separate nightclub attacks in Brooklyn and the Bronx within three hours early Saturday, police said. The bloodshed began at around 1:45 a.m. when a fight broke out inside Tulum Brooklyn, a late-night restaurant and lounge on Broadway near Hart St. in Bedford Stuyvesant.
A person was killed in a shooting Wednesday night in East Oakland, police said. The shooting happened around 6:45 p.m. in the 9800 block of International Boulevard, near 98th Avenue, the Oakland Police Department said in a news release. Officers arrived to find one victim suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. The victim died at the scene. Their identity is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin.
Agustin Calderon, 43, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and a gun enhancement in the Dec. 16, 2023 fatal shooting of 29-year-old Eric Azevedo, in Antioch. Calderon was formally sentenced in October and is housed at Pleasant Valley State Prison, records show. Prosecutors dropped a murder count as part of the plea deal, records show.
When we first heard the news about Niners DL Keion White being hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the ankle Monday, we did not know where the shooting took place just that it was at a party in the Mission District following the Super Bowl. Now we know that the incident occurred at or outside a party that the 27-year-old White himself was throwing at Dahlia, the tequila-focused bar/club that was formerly known as the Armory Club, at 1799 Mission Street.