At the receiving end of this onslaught of punches vented his anger to Eyewitness News tonight, angered the alleged assailant was allowed to walk out of court today without posting a dime of bail. This individual did not hear you attacking the driver on a moving vehicle that youre jeopardizing the safety of everybody on that bus and outside that bus. Reporter a judge released 18yearold thutmose clark on his own recognizance today, accused in the assault of the 62 yearold driver. The driver says clark first pommeled him while the bus was in motion, approaching a stop at nostrand and avenue d in east flatbush. I now have to maintain control of this bus with one hand while fending him off with my right hand. Reporter then after the doors were opened, he got off the driver picked clark out of a lineup tonight. A judge siding with the teams mother who told joe torres her son is autistic and schizophrenic. I cant explain mental illness. Its just something that happens. And fortunately what ha
The breaking news. We just got here on the scene about 5 minutes ago and as were pulling up we saw the Police Investigators pulling the body away. There are Police Officers who are just now walking down the street buttheyre just behind me. That body was found between two homes here on south 20th street. The bodies found a little over an hour ago. Who found it . We do not know and the circumstances behind why that body was left here still under investigation. But police are calling this a suspicious death. Theyre gathering the evidence they need. As you can see the road is closed off and we have multiple Police Vehicles here on the scene. All of these officers of course investigating this. If we get any new developments, i will bring that to you tonight at 11 00. Reporting live in newark, carolina leid, channel 7 Eyewitness News. We have more breaking news, this one in harlem. Accident causing delays along metro north. An oversized truck carrying water cooler towers lost part of its loa
An accuweather alert. Another round of snow coming down tonight. More is on the way along with added concerns about flooding first we have two breaking stories. Body found in the street in new jersey. Good evening at 11 00. A murder mystery and right now police are on the scene. Eyewitness News Reporter carolina leid is in newark with the breaking news. We just got here on the scene about 5 minutes ago and as were pulling up we saw the Police Investigators pulling the body away. There are Police Officers who are just now walking down the street but theyre just behind me. That body was found between two homes here on south 20th street. The bodies found a little over an hour ago. Who found it . We do not know and the circumstances behind why that body was left here still under investigation. But police are calling this a suspicious death. Theyre gathering the evidence they need. As you can see the road is closed off and we have multiple Police Vehicles here on the scene. All of these off
Together as police learned more about the terrorists. Former cop peter liang convicted of killing an unarmed man in brooklyn facing years in prison now could be facing just probation. Good evening at 11 00. Im bill ritter. And im sade baderinwa. Tonight the brooklyn District Attorney recommending liang be sentenced to house arrest for the shooting death of akai gurley. No surprise, gurleys family is outraged over the decision. Eyewitness News Reporter carolina leid talking to the family tonight in jersey city. Akai gurleys aunt spoke here at their church, the familys church here in jersey city. Shes speak on behalf of his parents who now live out of state and says the entire family was blindsided by this recommendation. It was a slap in the face. Reporter akai gurleys family says the public knew before they did about the brooklyn District Attorneys recommendation to the court to give former officer peter liang the rookie cop was convicted last month of manslaughter for shooting and kil
42nd in line to take off. That runway now open again. But what in the world caused this damage . Eyewitness News Reporter jim dolan with some answers. Hes at laguardia. A divot in the runway was 8 feet long so the entire runway had to be shut down. They only have two runways here so for a while laguardia was practically paralyzed. Reporter chris was all camped out at laguardia. His flight canceled. This is definitely not what he meant by a long weekend away. Could have been a little bit better. Two delays then a cancellation last minute. Then a booking tomorrow morning with no update. Youre trying to get to . To new orleans. Thats the west end of runway 13 but they have the whole runway shut down. Reporter crews working to repair the 8foot long hole in the runway that suddenly opened up. Reporter twohour delays, threehour delays. It was slow coming and going. Circling around. 45 minutes were hanging in the air. Reporter what a mess. Traffic backed up at the fdr. Michelle smith was so f