Crime and Assault Injuries

A 64-year-old woman, Ruth Wade was arrested on charges of stabbing an acquaintance to death. The incident took place near Staten Island, New York.

The woman has a history of violence and drug arrests and was arrested for fatally stabbing her roommate repeatedly with a screwdriver.

She was well known in drug circles as “Grandma,” and she was staying with the victim and his wife. At some point last Thursday, she had a heated argument with the couple after which she stabbed Henry Showard with a screwdriver. The victim received serious stab wounds in the chest and was died.

Wade, who was described [...]

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A 17 year old Brooklyn, New York teenager was shot dead while he was sitting on a bench with a friend. The shooting incident was reported outside Bedford-Stuyvesant housing project on Friday.

The victim Bertrand Jocelyn, was shot in the head and died. He was sitting along with his friend who escaped unhurt. The shooter fled the spot and is still at large.

More than 100 people gathered and held a candlelight vigil near the bench to offer condolences to his family members. Most of those who gathered were young people who placed candles on and around the bench. They also left [...]

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A Veteran Police Detective from Queens, New York, pleaded guilty to the kidnapping and prostitution charges against a teenage girl.

Wayne Taylor along with his wife Zelika Brown, both entered guilty pleas to the kidnapping of a 13-year-old girl who lived in Brooklyn, NY.

As per the Queens, New York District Attorney, Taylor kidnapped and presented her as a 19-year-old prostitute and was forced to perform sexual acts for money in several parties.

The girl was held captive in a Queens, New York home, but finally managed to escape.

The two defendants were tracked down with the help of NYPD.

Taylor has served NYPD’s for [...]

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A Bronx gang member, George Melende was convicted to life without parole. He was involved in a gruesome 2005 murder, and was convicted for the first-degree murder of Dennis Rivera.

The incident happened in 2005 when three Latin Kings gang members tortured Rivera for a day and a half. During this time, victim was forced to drink drano, his genitals were branded with a scalding hammer, and was subjected to electric shocks.

After this gruesome torture, he was strangled to death by crushing his throat with a baseball bat and set fire to his body in a parking lot behind Yankee Stadium.

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Police on Thursday night were looking for two men who are responsible for three separate sexual assaults in Queens, New York over the last few days.

Police also on Thursday released a sketch of a man, who they say was responsible for two of the sexual assaults in Queens, New York over in the last few days and they have also offered a reward of $12,000 dollars for his conviction.

According to Police in both cases the victims at bus stops were approached by this man.

The first incident occurred at about 2 a.m. when [...]

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Police has arrested 19-year-old man in connection with the shooting death of a Queens teenager, Brandon Bethea who was shot on May, 08.

Police are also searching for searching for his accomplices involved in the crime.

Brandon Bethea, aged 15, was shot in the head by a stray bullet on May 17, while he was partying with friends outside the Redfern Houses in Far Rockaway.

The suspect has been held on charges of murder ( second-degree), manslaughter, criminal possession of weapon.

Police search is going on to nab his accomplice.

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A Brooklyn woman was arrested who tabbed her neighbor to death.

Police said that Habika Hickman, aged 30, stabbed her neighbor several times who was residing at East 22nd Street in Kensington.

The victim was taken to Kings County Hospital, where she was declared dead.

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Police is searching for suspects in the firing incident which left one person killed and four other injured – two critically at a barbecue in Brooklyn, New York. There were more than 100 people present inside a party tent in the yard at the time when shooting incident happened.

Investigators reported that some unidentified individual started shooting at 969 Gates Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 1 a.m on Sunday. Among those killed has been identified at Zeanie White, 21, who was declared dead at Kings County Hospital, New York. An unidentified man and a 19-year-old woman were taken to local hospitals where their condition [...]

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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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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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