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Yahoo
25-05-2025
- Yahoo
Woman, 78, fatally struck by Bronx SUV driver
A 78-year-old woman was fatally struck by a Bronx SUV driver, police said Sunday. The victim was crossing White Plains Road at E. 216th St. in Williamsbridge when a 56-year-old woman driving north in a 2024 Toyota RAV4 hit her about 10:20 p.m. Saturday, cops said. The woman suffered severe head trauma. Medics took her to Jacobi Medical Center, where she died. Her name was not immediately released. The driver remained at the scene and faced no immediate charges.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Yahoo
7-year-old child shot in NYC home — marking third minor to be wounded or killed in a Bronx shooting in a week
A 7-year-old boy was shot in a Bronx home Sunday afternoon, becoming at least the third innocent minor to be injured or killed by a bullet in the borough in a week, police said. The child was inside a home on East 230th Street in the Wakefield section of the borough when he was shot in the left hand around 4 p.m., according to the NYPD. The family of the victim, whose name was not released by police, took him to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition, police said. Cops are investigating whether the child got hold of the gun and accidentally shot himself in the hand, according to law enforcement sources. Police said they received a 911 call about the shooting, which remains under investigation. The incident marks at least the third shooting involving an innocent child in the Bronx in the last week. On May 12, Evette Jeffrey, 16, was shot in the head and killed near a schoolyard after coming back from celebrating her anniversary with her boyfriend at a local Chinese restaurant. She was caught in the crossfire of a gang-fueled shootout and was not the intended target, cops said. Mayor Eric Adams visited the tragic scene that night and had an impromptu conversation with a clutch of terrified parents. 'Several lives are destroyed,' Adams said of the deadly shooting. 'We know that we have an obligation to create safe environments for young people. And that is what we try to do every day,' he added. The next day, an 11-year-old boy was injured in a shooting when, again, teens opened fire on a rival gang just blocks from where Jeffrey was slain riding her scooter. The shooters missed their targets, but one of their bullets smashed through the rear passenger side window of a passing car and showered the boy with glass. He was taken to the hospital and listed in stable condition. The driver of the car was shot in the shoulder and also listed in stable condition. The shooters escaped on Citi Bikes.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Yahoo
Speeding BMW driver accused of killing beloved Bronx coach was ‘extremely reckless': DA
The unlicensed 25-year-old BMW driver who killed a beloved Bronx football coach was traveling at an 'extremely reckless' speed when he sparked the fatal crash, Bronx prosecutors said Friday. Sheydon McClean only had a learner's permit as he charged down Eastchester Road at a stunning 86 miles per hour, more than 60 miles over the speed limit, before the Nov. 30 crash that led to 60-year-old Dwight Downer's death, prosecutors alleged at McClean's arraignment on manslaughter and reckless endangerment charges. Downer, a retired correction officer and high school football coach, had just parked his Nissan Murano on the street and gotten out of his car when McClean's BMW 328 XI blew through a red light on Givan Ave. and slammed into a pickup truck at about 12:10 a.m., cops say. The BMW careened out of control and slammed into Downer and four parked cars before coming to a stop. Downer, who coached football at DeWitt Clinton High School — where he was affectionately known as 'Coach D' — was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, where he died a half hour later. The father of two served as a correction officer at Rikers Island for 27 years before retiring nearly a decade ago, his family said. Besides coaching at DeWitt Clinton High School, his alma mater, he coached for the Bronx Buccaneers, a youth football league, for the past six years, relatives said. 'He was a mentor to so many kids,' his sister Karen Green told the Daily News following the crash. 'He had that ability to instill those values and determination and send them on the right road.' McClean remained at the scene following the Baychester crash and was treated for minor injuries but wasn't immediately charged. A friend of McClean, who may have been riding in the BMW when the crash occurred, called 911, prosecutors said. The BMW driver surrendered to detectives on Thursday. The judge ordered McClean held on $20,000 bail — which his family, who sat in the gallery, would soon post, said attorney Joseph Caldarera, who called the charges against his client 'unreasonable.' 'I understand the prosecutor's office has to overcharge in order to make it seem like they are fighting crime and make it seem like they're doing the right thing when somebody loses their life,' said Caldarera. 'But that's not justice. In this case, this man is being overcharged because someone lost their life, and although we feel sympathetic for that family and we extend our condolences to them, it's a miscarriage of justice to charge him like this.' Caldarera called the crash an 'accident.' McClean, he said, remained at the scene and has 'been in touch with the NYPD these follow the past few months to see what was going on with his case.' 'He turned himself into the precinct,' the attorney said. 'He's not looking to run, and he's looking to accept responsibility for what happened here, but that acceptance of responsibility needs to be reasonable.' McClean's family declined to comment in court. The pickup truck driver McClean collided with was also unlicensed and fled the crash, officials said. Cops arrested Orville Berry, on March 13, charging him with leaving the scene of a fatal accident and aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle. The Yonkers resident pleaded not guilty and was released without bail. Bronx prosecutors said McClean's speeding and ignoring traffic signals showed an 'extremely reckless' behavior that was the basis for the manslaughter charge. Since the crash, McClean's BMW has been hit with at least three speeding violations after being photographed by city speed cameras, police sources said. McClean is facing 15 years in prison if convicted, but that was cold comfort to Downer's mother on Thursday. 'These arrests cannot bring back my child,' Norma Downer, 83, told The News. 'Still, something has to be done.' 'Every day I have to look at his picture and cry,' she said. Caldarera said his client wants to testify to the grand jury next week. 'We plan on fighting these charges head-on moving forward,' the attorney said. 'Once we see the facts, it's going to show that my client is not guilty of what he is charged with.'
Yahoo
02-05-2025
- Yahoo
NYPD cop shoots Bronx man as he holds knife to mother's neck
A 34-year-old man holding a large knife to his mother's neck was shot and critically wounded by an officer inside a Bronx apartment, police said Friday. The Thursday night drama was described by Chief of Patrol Philip Rivera as a tense standoff 'in which our officers were confronted with a dangerous and difficult situation and ultimately saved a woman's life.' The encounter started when a security guard at an apartment building near Mulford Ave. and Libby Place called 911 at 11:20 p.m. to report that he heard screaming inside an apartment and that he believed the suspect was trying to 'harm himself.' But Rivera said when two cops — an officer and a sergeant, both from the 45th Precinct — got to the apartment door and were let in by a relative they found the suspect in the back threatening to kill his 61-year-old mother. 'The male had his left arm around his mother's neck and a large kitchen knife in his right hand,' Rivera said. 'For over 2½ minutes, our officers attempted to get the male to put the knife down and free his mother. As our officers were attempting this, the male made numerous threats to kill his mother, all while he was still holding her with his arm around her neck and holding the knife. 'Numerous times during this interaction the male moved the knife towards his mother's neck.' The confrontation was captured on police body-worn cameras, though Rivera didn't describe the moment just before an officer fired one shot, felling the son and freeing his mother. Medics rushed the son to Jacobi Medical Center, where he is listed in critical condition. 'The woman thankfully was not physically injured.' It wasn't immediately clear what set off the suspect, or if he has documented mental health issues. The incident is the ninth this year in which NYPD officers shot a suspect. Four of them were armed with knives. On Monday, an officer in Brooklyn shot and killed Juumane Wright, 28, when he nearly struck the officer in a stolen Porsche as he attempted to get past a NYPD roadblock on the Belt Parkway near East New York. Wright last November was among 10 suspects indicted by the feds in Pennsylvania, accused of being part of an interstate stolen car ring.
Yahoo
26-02-2025
- Yahoo
Gun in Bronx shooting that grazed sleeping woman had serial number defaced: prosecutors
The gun used in a shooting that grazed a woman's forehead while she slept in her Bronx apartment was illegal, with its serial number scratched off and unregistered in the NYPD's database, prosecutors said Tuesday. The 55-year-old victim was asleep in her bed in her apartment on Purdy St. near Metropolitan Ave. in Parkchester about 11:45 p.m. Sunday when a bullet was fired through her ceiling, police said. The woman turned on a light, and realized she was bleeding from her forehead. She was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where she was treated and later released. Cops visited the apartment upstairs, where in the room directly above the victim's bedroom was a similar hole in the floor along with Kiron Valerio, Dezmond Frazier and Tyquan Williams, all 19. Also in the room were two 17-year-olds, whose identities were withheld due to their age. Inside a plastic tote container in one of the bedrooms, cops found a fanny pack stuffed with two loaded guns — a black 9mm Glock 19 and a black 9mm Kel-Tec pistol. The Kel-Tec's serial number had been scratched off, investigators said. It was loaded with a magazine holding 12 rounds of 9mm ammo, while the Glock had 19 rounds in its magazine, according to prosecutors. The suspects had the weapons in their custody, according to police. At their arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court on Tuesday, Williams, Valerio and Frazier were all charged with weapons possession and reckless endangerment. Williams and Valerio were released without bail, while Frazier was ordered to be released under supervision.
