Jul. 14, 2023 By Bill Parry
Detectives from the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica are still trying to piece together a motive behind a shooting in front of a corner bodega on Sutphin Boulevard late last month.
Jun. 1, 2023 By Zachary Gewelb Police from the 103rd Precinct and 20th Transit District are searching for the crook who assaulted a 19-year-old man on an E train at the Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer subway station last month. Authorities say that the unknown man approached the teen on the E train inside the station at approximately…
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May. 12, 2023 By Bill Parry An Auburndale man was arrested May 11 and charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a Jamaica man last summer. Damion Howell, 39, of 194th Street, was taken into custody at the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica, nine months after he allegedly gunned down 29-year-old Julian Askew, who lived…
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Apr. 14, 2023 By Bill Parry
A wall of blue erupted into cheers and applause as NYPD Police Officer Brett Boller was released from Jamaica Hospital Medical Center on April 14, nine days after he was shot in the line of duty.
Apr. 7, 2023 By Robert Pozarycki, Dean Moses and Meaghan McGoldrick Queens detectives are questioning a person of interest in the shooting of a rookie police officer on Wednesday afternoon. According to published reports, the person of interest was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals on Thursday night, April 6, at his residence. A…
Apr. 6, 2023 By Dean Moses, Robert Pozarycki and Meaghan McGoldrick Queens detectives continued their desperate search Thursday morning for the gunman who shot and wounded a rookie officer on Wednesday afternoon. The injured officer is currently in stable condition at Jamaica Hospital, according to law enforcement sources. The officer involved, age 22, just…
Mar. 7, 2023 By Bill Parry Police from the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica are on the lookout for a teenage bully who allegedly robbed a couple of youngsters in the neighborhood last month. The first mugging occurred on the morning of Friday, Feb. 17, at South Road and Sutphin Boulevard. A 12-year-old boy was walking…
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Mar. 3, 2023 By Bill Parry A teacher at PS 48Q in Jamaica was arrested at the school Wednesday morning, March 1, and was later charged with assault for allegedly manhandling an 8-year-old girl, according to authorities. Police from the 103rd Precinct were called to the David N. Dinkins School for Community Service, located at…
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Feb. 27, 2023 By Bill Parry The NYPD marked the 35th anniversary of the assassination of Police Officer Edward Byrne early Sunday morning at the South Jamaica corner where he was killed in the line of duty on Feb. 26, 1988, as he sat in a patrol car protecting a family who had enough of…
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Feb. 24, 2023 By Bill Parry When members of the NYPD and FDNY gather outside the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica in the early morning Saturday, Feb. 26, to mark the 35th anniversary of the assassination of Police Officer Eddie Byrne, the solemnity of the observance could be mixed with outrage. On this weekend in 1988,…
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