Dec. 5, 2024 By Dean Moses and Robert Pozarycki The investigation into Wednesday’s brazen Midtown shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is “progressing,” law enforcement sources said, as the hunt for his assassin enters its second day with the release of surveillance images of his face, By all appearances, the shooting appears to be…
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Three Baltimore men indicted for killing Queens weed dealer, leaving body in U-Haul in Bayside: Feds
Oct. 24, 2024 By Bill Parry A federal grand jury in Brooklyn indicted three Maryland men for their alleged roles in the kidnapping, robbery and fatal shooting of a marijuana dealer in Bayside in July. Two of the defendants, Jerome Waters, 23, known on the street as “the Engineer,” and Calvin Israel, 23, were…
Queens man shot dead inside apartment building: cops
Oct. 6, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell and Robert Pozarycki Queens detectives are looking for the suspect who shot and killed a man on Sunday morning. Police said the homicide happened at about 3 a.m. on Oct. 6 in an apartment building at 101-66 125th St. in South Richmond Hill. Officers from the 102nd Precinct,…
Queens man shot dead at public housing complex; suspect still on run
Oct. 5, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki Queens detectives are on the hunt for the suspect who shot a man dead near a public housing complex on Friday night. Police said Rahsaun Williams, 39, of 160th Street in Queens was gunned down in front of 65-16 Parsons Blvd., near the Pomonok Houses, at about 7:32…
Flushing woman convicted of murdering prominent immigration attorney after being dropped as client: DA
Sep. 23, 2024 By Bill Parry A Flushing woman faces 25 years to life in prison after being convicted of murder on Friday for killing her immigration attorney in 2022. The attorney had dropped her as a client shortly before she fatally stabbed him. Xiaoning Zhang,27, of Kissena Boulevard, was found guilty by a…
Queens woman charged with stabbing husband to death during dispute: cops
Sep. 21, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki A Queens woman was arrested Friday night for allegedly stabbing her husband to death during an apparent domestic dispute, police reported on Saturday. Lai Chun Ho, 74, was charged with allegedly killing Kuen Tat Ho, 76, inside the home they shared on the 2300 block of 120th Street…
Flushing woman pleads guilty to killing man found dead in her bed in 2021: DA
Sep. 19, 2024 By Bill Parry A Flushing woman admitted she killed a man who was found dead in her bed exactly three years ago. Haiyan Deng, 34, of 39th Avenue, pleaded guilty in Queens Supreme Court on Wednesday to manslaughter in the first degree and other related charges for the fatal shooting of…
Video shows moment before suspect shot a Corona man to death on Friday the 13th: NYPD
Sept. 19, 2024 By Bill Parry The NYPD released chilling new video surveillance of a gunman taken just moments before he fatally shot a 23-year-old Corona man in front of his home on 96th Street on Friday the 13th, police said. Homicide detectives from the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights are working to identify the… Read more »
Man in Queens shot and killed on residential block in precinct’s second deadly shooting in three days
A young man in Queens was shot dead on Friday night, police reported. Police said the 23-year-old victim was slain in front of a home on the 3300 block of 96th Street in Corona at about 7:20 p.m. on Sept. 13. Officers from the 115th Precinct, in responding to a 911 call about the…
Two MS-13 associates from Queens admit they killed Corona teen at Kissena Park in 2018: Feds
Sep. 10, 2024 By Bill Parry Two Queens MS-13 gang associates pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court on Friday in connection to the notorious 2018 murder of a teenager in Flushing’s Kissena Park. As part of their guilty pleas, Juan Amaya-Ramirez, 26, of Fresh Meadows, and Oscar Flores-Meija, 24, of Elmhurst, admitted to killing…