Six people were shot on a Bronx subway platform Monday — one fatally — in what police say involved a dispute between two groups of teenagers. A 34-year-old man was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital. The other five — a 14-year-old girl, 15-year-old boy, 28-year-old man, 29-year-old woman, and 71-year-old man — are not …
A 40-year-old Bronx woman was shot to death in her home and her two nephews wounded early Saturday morning. New York Police took her estranged boyfriend into custody for questioning Saturday afternoon, the New York Daily News reported. Officers were called to the Bedford Park apartment shortly after 5 a.m. for a report of an …
A New York woman has been charged with manslaughter after her newborn daughter was found dead in a bag last year. In addition to manslaughter, Lasasha Gouldbourne, 31, faces charges of criminally negligent homicide, assault, and acting in a manner injurious to a child, WPIX reported. Police say that Gouldbourne gave birth in her mother’s …
New York police shot and killed a man who was allegedly holding his mother at knifepoint in their Bronx apartment Saturday morning. The 30-year-old man, who has not yet been publicly identified, reportedly told his family he was going to kill them and then himself. A 19-year-old family member made the 911 call that brought …
New York police are investigating after a couple and their 5-year-old son were found dead in a Bronx apartment building on Sunday. Jonathan Rivera, 38, was found with several stab wounds in a first-floor hallway of the building just after 6 a.m. Officers looked through the windows of a nearby apartment and saw the child, …
A New York mother has been charged with with poisoning her 4-year-old daughter with “life-threatening levels” of seizure meds. Authorities say they believe Tajahnae Brown, 23, suffers from Munchausen’s syndrone by proxy, in which someone induces or invents illness in someone in their care for attention. Prosecutors say Brown made 190 trips to medical providers …
Two people charged in connection with the death of a toddler from opioid exposure over the weekend have now been charged in federal court with conspiracy to distribute narcotics resulting in death and possession with intent to distribute narcotics resulting in death. New York police responded to Divino Nino daycare in the Bronx on Friday …
A young mother was treated for minor injuries Friday after she was involved in a fight with two other women over an earlier fight between their children. Police called to a Bronx street outside Walter Gladwin Park found the 23-year-old victim with cuts to her chest, legs, and arms. She was taken to St. Barnabas …
A Bronx couple have been indicted on neglect charges after police found the woman’s two daughters naked a bruised in a locked room, eating pieces of a foam mattress. The two girls, ages 3 and 4, were found in an apartment “with urine and feces about the place” and without adequate food, clothing, or clean …
A New York man has been charged with murder after his 3-month-old daughter was found dead in a wooded area near the homeless shelter where the family lived. Investigators found the body of Genevieve Comager at about 10:30 p.m. just steps away from a pedestrian overpass of the Major Deegan Expressway in the Bronx, as …
A 3-month-old baby girl was found dead Sunday night near a homeless shelter in the Bronx where she lived with her family. The infant, identified as Genevieve Comager, was found at about 8:30 p.m. off the Major Deegan Expressway, WABC reported. Police said they launched a search for the baby when a family member reported …
A Bronx woman has been charged with murder after she allegedly stabbed her neighbor to death over loud music. Police said that neighbors Shaun Pyles and Tyquan Pleasant had a history of arguing over noise, and a fight at about 2 a.m. Friday morning turned deadly, according to WNBC. Pleasant, 27, was reportedly playing music, …
