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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Yahoo
NYPD cops fatally shoot 25-year-old who charged at them with knife following domestic dispute: police
Cops fatally shot a 25-year-old man who charged at them with a knife in a Brooklyn apartment Tuesday afternoon while responding to a domestic dispute, according to police. Two officers responded to 108 Christopher Avenue in Brownsville just before 3 p.m. after a woman reported that her ex-boyfriend — who was known to carry machetes and hammers — had threatened her in a rage over another man babysitting their kids, the NYPD said at a press conference Tuesday night. The woman, who was home with her children, feared her former partner was on his way to kill her, police said. The woman met police in the building's lobby, and once they stepped into her apartment, they were confronted by the suspect, who allegedly lunged at the officers with a large black knife, the NYPD said. One officer fired a Taser, but the knife-wielding madman continued to rush at the officers, forcing the second cop to shoot him twice in the chest. The man, whose identity wasn't released, was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The officers involved, who captured the disturbing ordeal on their body-worn cameras, were also taken to a local hospital for evaluation, police said. The woman, her children, and the two cops were not injured during the incident. Police, who seized the bladed weapon, are uncertain how the crazed suspect entered the home. The investigation is ongoing.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Yahoo
Driver of stolen Porsche shot dead by cops after attempting to evade roadblock and nearly hitting officer: NYPD
The driver of a stolen white Porsche was shot dead by police Tuesday night after nearly striking an officer with the flashy car at an NYPD roadblock near the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, police said. The suspect — who was previously charged in a multi-state car theft ring — initially landed on authorities' radar around 8 p.m. after they noticed the 'suspicious' car and discovered the license plates were stolen, Chief of Department John Chell said during a press conference. Police tried to pull over the 28-year-old car thief, who had a passenger in the car with him, on Cropsey Avenue in Canarsie, but he refused to stop, and hightailed back on the Belt eastbound, according to Chell. Authorities tried to 'intercept' the Porsche several exits away, leading the driver to veer onto the adjacent service road where more cops set up a roadblock, the chief said. In attempting to pass the roadblock, the suspect nearly swerved right into an NYPD cop who was standing at the roadblock and that officer fired his gun, shooting the driver once. 'At least one of these officers, the Porsche came into close proximity, nearly striking him,' Chell said, leading the cop to fire one round at the driver. The wounded driver kept going until he crashed into another police car, an exit away from the gunfire, the NYPD official said. The wounded suspect was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The passenger — who was not harmed — was taken into custody. The identity of the driver was not revealed early Wednesday, but cops said he was on federal probation for being part of a stolen car ring out of Pennsylvania. Following the shooting, police confirmed the Porsche was stolen out of the Keystone State, according to Chell. Additional reporting by Larry Celona.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Yahoo
Brooklyn Matriarch, 101, hit by SUV driver dies 2 weeks later from her injuries fled
An elderly woman who was fatally struck in early April by an unlicensed SUV driver as she crossed a Brooklyn street was a Hasidic Jewish matriarch who fled Russia after World War II on an escape train to Poland, family and police said Wednesday. On April 8 around 8:25 p.m., Taibel Brod — whom family members said was 99 years old — was crossing with a walk signal at the intersection of Brooklyn Ave. and Montgomery St. in Crown Heights, and had made it midway across Montgomery St., when the 65-year-old driver of a 2023 GMC Yukon SUV, traveling south on Brooklyn Ave., made a left turn going east onto Montgomery St., striking the victim, cops said. 'She walked every morning from Crown Heights to Brookdale Hospital, she used to feed patients there for many, many years,' said the victim's youngest son, Yisroel Brod, 70, who is a fundraising consultant. Taibel Brod was a longtime resident in Crown Heights, and the matriarch to a large Chabad family, and the mother of five children — three boys and two girls — with many grandchildren, the son said. She was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, and left Russia with many other adherents of Hasidism on the famous escape trains to Poland. She ended up in the Displaced Persons camp of Poking, according to an obituary. When Taibel Brod left Russia after World War II, she left with another person's passport to escape, the family said. 'She came to a displaced person's camp in Germany in 1946 at Pocking, Germany. That's where she met my father. My two sisters were born there,' Yisorel Brod said. 'She came to New York in 1951 and settled in Brownsville and now in Crown Heights.' Cops, who had reported Taibel Brod was 101 years old, arrested the driver, Menachem Shagalow, the day of the accident, charging him with aggravated unlicensed operator, failure to exercise due care, and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. Yisorel Brod described the accident as a 'tragedy.' Taibel Brod was transported by EMS to Maimonides Medical Center in stable condition with injuries to the head after the accident. She died nearly two weeks later, succumbing to her injuries on April 20, according to police. Her family described her as a 'devout' person who did her own shopping, washing and took care of herself as best she could. 'The hardship in her youth in Russia gave her the strength to go forward. She survived communism,' said her son Yosef Bord, 73, a building engineer from Los Angeles, Calif.
New York Times
08-02-2025
- New York Times
Girl, 6, Is Dead After Being Found in a Water-Filled Bathtub, Police Say
A 6-year-old girl died on Friday after being found unconscious in a bathtub filled with water at a Brooklyn apartment, the police said. The cause of the girl's death was unclear. She had blood clots in her eyes when the officers found her, suggesting the possibility of a struggle, according to two law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a continuing investigation. Officials did not identify the girl, and the police said Friday night that the investigation into her death was continuing. The medical examiner's office was conducting an autopsy, a spokeswoman said. Officers answering a 911 call for help at a home on Elton Street in the Highland Park section found the girl at around 1:30 p.m., the police said. Her parents were home at the time, the police said. Emergency services workers took the girl to Brookdale Hospital, where she was pronounced dead just before 3 p.m., the police said. Several hours later, two officers stood watch in the darkness outside the gated entrance to the small, two-story brick duplex where the girl had been found, on a residential block not far from the elevated J train tracks. Investigators filed in and out of the building's basement unit through an entrance under a staircase. A small Christmas tree was visible through a front window. Helen Cunningham, who lives across the street, said she had seen officers and emergency workers arrive at the home at around 2 p.m. After a while, she said, they had brought out a small girl on a stretcher, her head visible from beneath the sheet covering her. 'I don't know if she was alive,' Ms. Cunningham, 74, said. She said that the man she knew as the girl's father had climbed into a second ambulance that followed the one carrying the girl. Some time later, she said, she saw the police leading a young woman away in handcuffs. She said it was the second time in the past week she had seen officers at the address. Ms. Cunningham said she knew the family as neighbors but not by name. 'We're not friends,' she said. She said that two or three children lived at the home and that she had seen the man taking them to school. She said the family had moved into the home within the past few months from a building across the street. The man Ms. Cunningham identified as the father worked at a Bravo supermarket around the corner, according a manager there, Emmanuel Pichardo. Mr. Pichardo said that the father, who has worked at the store for two years and whom he knew only as George, had texted him in Spanish shortly after 4 p.m. to say he would not be coming to work because his daughter had been killed. 'I'm going crazy,' the father said in the messages, which Mr. Pichardo shared with a reporter. 'I'm here until God gives a miracle. I don't know what to do.'
