A New York woman admitted this week to killing her infant son before stuffing him into a bag and carrying his body around while she shopped. Tiona Rodriguez, 21, told prosecutors that she gave birth to her son at a friend’s home on October 16, 2013, and immediately smothered him. After the killing, prosecutors said the …
A Brooklyn man is reportedly fighting for his life after two men knocked him unconscious on a subway platform and left his head in the path of an oncoming train. The victim’s mother told the New York Daily News that her son is was seriously injured when a train struck his head and shattered his …
A Queens model was murdered while visiting Jamaica; her body was found Saturday morning on a rural road, covered in blood. NBC New York reports that Desiree Gibbon, 26, was living and working in Jamaica on a 3-month visa when her body was found with a slit throat in some bushes on the side of …
A woman says a crazed man punched her in the face on a New York City subway after she requested that he stop “manspreading.” The New York Post reported that Samantha Saia, 37, was on the N train en route to Manhattan Thursday morning when she says a man sat next to her and began to “spread …
A 3-year-old boy with a dairy allergy died earlier this month after his preschool served him a grilled cheese sandwich, his family said. The New York Times reports that Elijah Silvera died November 3 after the Seventh Avenue Center for Family Services in Harlem, New York, gave the toddler a grilled cheese sandwich. A GoFundMe set …
New York City police are searching for a man who was allegedly caught inappropriately touching himself twice on Manhattan subways last month. WNBC reported that a woman saw the suspect masturbating on a northbound E train during the morning rush on September 29. He was allegedly caught less than two weeks later doing the same …
Police reportedly saved two teen runaways from a Brooklyn home where three alleged sex traffickers kept them against their will. According to the Poughkeepsie Journal, two Ulster County girls, ages 14 and 15, went with the suspects to Brooklyn on October 17. NYPD spokeswoman Sergeant Jessica McRorie said the teens heard the suspects talking about “prostituting …
A jury found a Bronx, New York, woman guilty of butchering her friend and ripping her baby out of her body. DNAInfo reported that Ashleigh Wade, 24, cried as she was convicted of second-degree murder and kidnapping. It took a jury less than five hours to convict Wade on charges that could put her behind bars for the …
‘Ordering coke took on an entirely different meaning on the night shift at this McDonald’s.’
A juror passed out in a Bronx court after seeing autopsy photos of a murdered pregnant woman who had her baby cut from her womb. According to the New York Post, the female juror was rushed to the hospital Thursday after a prosecutor presented photos of Angelikque Sutton’s lacerated neck and detached uterus to the court. …
A Queens, New York, woman allegedly helped conduct an illegal back-alley butt injection procedure that killed a Harlem mother over the summer. The New York Daily News reports that Allison Spence, 44, was charged Thursday with manslaughter and unauthorized practice of a profession in connection with the death of Latesha Bynum, 37. Bynum died two weeks after getting the injections …
A man has reportedly filed a $2.5 million lawsuit against a New York City hospital, accusing them of sending his HIV diagnosis to his workplace, as reported by NY Daily News. The man, who in his 30s and identified as “John Doe,” has accused Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital of sending information about his diagnosis …
