A video from a surveillance camera at a Brooklyn, NY, hospital showed a woman dying on the floor. The deceased fell from her chair, and writhed on the floor. She was left to die as workers failed to help for more than an hour.
Esmin Green, 49, was waiting in the emergency room for more than 24 hours when she fell from her chair at 5:32am on June 19.
She was dead by 6:35, when someone from the medical staff, was flagged down by a person in the waiting room. The staffer finally approached and nudged Green [...]
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Tags: Brooklyn · Medical Malpractice · New York · Wrongful Death
A Brooklyn man was charged on Wednesday for allegedly allowing a pit bull and another dog to attack a three-year-old boy on Wednesday morning.
Frantz Cesar, aged 24, was charged with weapon possession and endangering life of a child, when he allegedly released two dogs that attacked his girlfriend’s three-year old son, named Kamar Reynolds.
Kamar was bitten badly on the face and neck by the two dogs and they teared off his ear which was dangling after the bite.
Reynolds was admitted to Bellevue Hospital where he underwent a surgery to re-attach his ear.
The police commissioner told that incident happened after a [...]
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Tags: Brooklyn · Dog Bites · New York · Personal Injury
A three-year old Brooklyn girl who was beaten by her mother’s boyfriend died on Wednesday.
Eleacha Oliver Ragoo breathed her last at East Flatbush’s Brookdale Hospital, and was on life support since June 21.
The little girl was admitted to hospital after her mother’s boyfriend threw her around violently. She had received a fractured skull, broken ribs, and a spinal injury as the result of assault.
Read June 27th News at: http://www.866attylaw.com/blog/brooklyn-man-injured-brooklyn-girl/
Anthony Merritt has been charged with second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child. However serious charges will be leveled against him since the girl has died [...]
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Tags: Brooklyn · Crime and Assault Injuries · New York · Personal Injury
According to Police, McNair’s dogs attacked Henry Piotrowski, right outside his home on John Street in Port Richmond on July 1 ,2008. Piotrowski is being hospitalized and is in critical condition after having one of his legs amputated.
He could have been even more serious if hi neighbor had not heard the attack who then using a knife chased the dogs away, but this was not before the dogs had severely injured Piotrowski.
Local residents said the dogs’ owner should be held responsible.
According to McNair’s friend, Anthony Mahoney, feels the dogs, must have been provoked causing them to attack like they did.
The [...]
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Tags: Dog Bites · New York · Personal Injury
A woman died in a bus accident on Manhattan, New York’s Lower East Side on Wednesday afternoon.
Police told that, Loudres Fernandez, 68, got hit by a MTA bus at around 1:30 p.m. at the corner of Jackson & Madison Streets.
According to Fire officials the Metropolitan Transportation Authority M22 bus hit the woman when the driver was making a left turn onto Jackson Street.
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Tags: Auto Accidents · Manhattan
A Bronx jury, found three men guilty of a gruesome murder in the infamous case 2005 Torturous Bronx Murder.
Prosecutors told Latin Kings members that George Melendez is convicted for first degree murder and Lawrence Perez,Virgilio Samo were found guilty of second degree murder in the killing of Dennis Rivera in 2005.
The court findings were that the men tortured Rivera for a day & a half — forcing him to drink Drano, and branded his genitals with a scalding hammer and putting electric shocks on him.
They then after crushed his throat with a baseball bat, strangled him to death and lit [...]
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Tags: Bronx · Crime and Assault Injuries · New York