Four people are dead, including the gunman and his toddler daughter, following a shooting at a Brooklyn apartment this week, according to police. All of the deceased were reportedly related by blood or marriage. As WABC reports, 27-year-old Terrance Briggs; his daughter, 1-year-old Layla Briggs; his stepfather, 57-year-old Lloyd Drain Jr.; and 15-year-old Lloyd Drain …
Several New York officials have been placed on leave after a 14-year-old boy with autism allegedly wandered away from his school bus and drowned in a nearby river. CBS News reported that surveillance footage caught Trevyan Rowe walking away from James P.B. Duffy School 12 on the morning of March 8. A half-hour later, the teen was …
A New York woman is facing a child endangerment charge after police say she failed to properly watch her infant daughter, resulting in the baby crawling alone along a busy road in Utica on Friday. FOX reports that Ledrika Ford, 27, was officially charged with endangering the welfare of a child after a concerned citizen spotted …
A New York college student has admitted to colluding with her father to kill her mother and make it look like a suicide. Karrie Neurauter, 20, an ex- Rochester Institute of Technology, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder charges for the August 2017 slaying of her mother, Michelle Neurauter, 46. The Democrat and Chronicle reported that her …
A sophomore at Columbia University was reportedly found dead in his dorm room five days after overdosing on opioids. The New York Post reported that Gage Bellitto, 19, was found dead on December 27, after his parents hadn’t heard from him for several days and contacted police. At the time, authorities believe that the college student …
A New York woman faces criminal charges including attempted murder, burglary and assault in connection to a poisoning more than a year ago. According to reports, 42-year-old Viktoria Nasyrova, a Russian living in Brooklyn, is accused of poisoning a woman with a tampered cheesecake with the intention of assuming her identity as well as numerous …
A Brooklyn, New York, couple was reportedly stabbed to death in front of their home Wednesday in what police are treating as a robbery. The New York Times reported that police were responding to a call in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood at 6:40 p.m. when they found Hazel Brown, 59, and Stephenson Bonaparte, 65, unconscious with …
A sign spotted outside the raided home reportedly read, ‘SIHOPE: Staten Island Against Drug Abuse’
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 whopping seven Long Island mobsters from two separate crime families were arrested Tuesday on a slew of charges including drug dealing and racketeering. Six members of the Gambino crime family and one member of the Bonanno crime family were brought in on charges in connection with illegal activities occurring between January 2014 and December …
Friends and family of an aspiring model found dead on the island of Jamaica last week are facing roadblocks in their pursuit of answers. According to WCBS, 26-year-old Desiree Gibbon’s mother, Andrea, revealed that the family’s planned flight to retrieve the victim’s body was cancelled, marking the latest setback in their search for answers. “My …
A Staten Island grandmother was viciously stabbed to death after leaving a bank Monday afternoon. According to CBS New York, Geetha Howie, 63, was allegedly confronted by her killer near her home, police say. Witness Mark Long told the news station that he heard a struggle and came out to see what was going on. “At …
