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Police are on high alert after five gun-toting thugs accosted an elderly couple and assaulted them before stealing goods worth more than R100,000 from their Walmer home on Thursday. ....
Fatalities. i anticipate there will be briefings soon. this is the scenario where new york city mayor would normally be on the scene, eric adams, but tested positive for coronavirus. unclear if he could do so to provide a briefing. perhaps the deputy mayor of the police in the hours to come. no arrests or suspects in custody yet. we can see an image here. 4th avenue is a major street in brooklyn. that subway station is busy. three lines run through there. an overwhelming police and fire response right now. willie, last week, the end of last week, we had the mayor before he was diagnosed with covid, we had the mayor on set at 30 rock. he was talking about a great concern about the crime that had gripped new york city over the past few years and certainly is one of the great challenges that he s inherited. at the same time, though, this does sound different, doesn t it. ....
Firefighters and paramedics standing by. their posture seems to be calm in terms of the initial chaos after an event such as this. we aren t seeing that right now. we re seeing an overwhelming show of force. on both sides of the street we have state police, aff, nypd standing outside of the off ramp of the subway station. you can see there is this really sort of glow, that s the entrance to the subway station as those below 4th avenue. right now we re seeing heavy presence. nobody has brought out that was injured at this moment. people are in shelter in place and no arrests at this time. we do know there is one suspect described to us as a 5 5 black man wearing a gas being mask and some sort of construction vest at the time of this incident but we don t have any ....
Be inoperable and not shock me. set the scene. we re on 4th avenue and 35th street where emergency personnel have set up here. the train station, the subway station is directly behind us. what we know is a few moments ago we received an emergency alerts on our phones between 20th to 40th street on 5th avenue they shut the area down and stabilized. what s interesting, that s the almost exactly the length of the nearby park and that is here in greenwood heights. there is a greenwood park right near the 5th avenue entrance between 20th and 40th. the exact length of the park. and that s important because we know the suspect that has been described as a 5 5 black man 170 to 180 pounds is still on the loose. is there a search in the area? ....