An NYPD officer was shot in Brooklyn late Wednesday night following a shootout with a suspected gang member, law enforcement sources said. According to Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, police officers arrived at the scene near Madison and Broadway following a report of shots fired. He said preliminary investigation revealed that a gunman allegedly shot two of three men who were.
NYPD cop shot 3 times in Brooklyn, expected to survive
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The bullet proof vest of the NYPD officer shot in Brooklyn Wednesday night stopped one bullet, police said. (NYPD photo)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. A uniformed NYPD officer was shot three times in Brooklyn late Wednesday night in a shootout with a 26-year-old man who was shot once in the leg and taken into custody, police said.
A preliminary police investigation revealed the incident began after two NYPD officers and a sergeant responded to a report of shots fired near the corner of Madison and Broadway in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 11:11 p.m., Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said at an overnight press conference.
Alleged Times Square shooter Farrakhan Muhammad held without bail
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The man who allegedly opened fire in Times Square over the weekend, wounding two women and a 4-year-old girl, made his first court appearance Thursday.
Farrakhan Muhammad was ordered held without bail pending an extradition hearing, appearing from the Bradford County Jail in Starke, Florida.
The county judge appointed a lawyer to discuss the extradition process with Muhammad, who will return to court Thursday, May 20, at 10 a.m.
His girlfriend, Kristine Jamaica Vergara, also appeared in court, telling the judge she is from Jacksonville, where her mother lives.
By all accounts, in the early morning hours of March 23 last year, Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Rochester, New York, man, was having a psychotic break. Prude’s fate was sealed after his brother, trying to help, called 911. Police responded by handcuffing the naked Prude, pinning him to the ground and suffocating him to death.
“Mr. Daniel Prude was failed by our police, our mental health care system, our society, and by me,” Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren said during a press conference about the incident.
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Over the past year, the use of 911 calls to dispatch police in psychiatric emergencies is coming under long-overdue scrutiny, and momentum is building to divert these calls to mental health crisis teams. Such reforms, advocates say, could have prevented interactions with law enforcement that ended the lives of Prude, Nicolas Chavez, Walter Wallace Jr., Angelo Quinto, Deborah Tanner, and cou
Pending approval, street to be renamed in honour of fallen NYPD officer Anastasios Tsakos
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A number of Greek-American businessmen and community organisations have proposed to rename the corner of 42nd Street with 23rd Avenue in Astoria as ‘Anastasios Tsakos Way’.
Anastasios Tsakos, a 14-year veteran of the police department, was fatally struck on April 27 by Jessica Beauvais, while diverting traffic from a previous fatal crash on the Long Island Expressway in Queens.
“I thought of this particular corner because that was where his family home was, where Tasos lived and grew up. I knew him for a long time, since he was in Astoria. He was a young man with a golden heart, always with a smile, laughter and puns, always with the willingness to help others,” Greek-American Constantinos Prentzas told