Apr. 18, 2025 By Ethan Marshall Grand larcenies maintained a significant downward trend across all of Queens and murders and rapes had substantial declines in southern Queens during the 28-day period ending on April 6, compared to the same period of time the previous year, according to the NYPD. In northern Queens, grand larcenies…
Mar. 14, 2025 By Bill Parry A 14-year-old boy was arrested for slashing a father who tried to defend his son during an after-school brawl near I.S. 192 in St. Albans on Wednesday afternoon. Police from the 113th Precinct in Jamaica responded to a 911 call of a man slashed at 109-89 204th St.…
Jan. 19, 2025 By Robert Pozarycki Queens police are on the hunt for the suspect who shot a man dead on Saturday night. Police said the victim — Sherman Walker, 51, of Francis Lewis Boulevard in Queens — was gunned down at the corner of 204th Street and Murdock Avenue in St. Albans at…
Nov. 26, 2024 By Bill Parry The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI) has launched a mandated probe into the NYPD-involved shooting death of Gary Dean Worthy, the 57-year-old armed robber on lifetime parole who died on Nov. 19 during a shootout with cops in Jamaica. Police from the 103rd Precinct…
Nov. 26, 2024 By Bill Parry A grandmother from the Bronx was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver near JFK Airport in Springfield Gardens on Saturday morning. Police from the 113th Precinct in Jamaica responded to a 911 call of a pedestrian struck at the intersection of 150th Street and North Conduit Avenue…
Oct. 10, 2024 By Bill Parry Jamaica resident Rahlik Pinnock was sentenced to ten years in prison on Thursday for stabbing a man during an altercation shortly after Pinnock tried to solicit the victim’s girlfriend to engage in prostitution in front of a Sutphin Boulevard liquor store in February 2022. Pinnock, 35, of 115th…
Sep. 27, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 113th Precinct in Jamaica are investigating yet another shooting incident in St. Albans, but this latest case was non-fatal. The most recent shooting occurred in broad daylight on a quiet residential block during the afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 17. A 21-year-old man was walking past…
Sep. 23, 2024 By Bill Parry Homicide detectives out of the 113th Precinct in Jamaica are working to determine why a 31-year-old man was gunned down outside a Merrick Boulevard watering hole on Sunday morning. Police responded to a 911 call of a person shot outside the Wave Juice Bar and Lounge at 125-22…
Sep. 19, 2024 By Bill Parry A 15-year-old boy was arrested early Wednesday morning and booked at the 113th Precinct in Jamaica in connection to the fatal shooting of a Cambria Heights father of three in St. Albans on Monday afternoon. The youngster, who was not identified because he is a juvenile, was charged…
Sep. 17, 2024 By Bill Parry A masked teenager is being sought for allegedly bringing a gun to an afterschool melee in St. Albans and using it to send nearly a dozen youngsters running for their lives while setting off a tragic chain of events on Monday afternoon in which a Cambria Heights man…