AdvertisementBy New York Daily News and Police Bureau ChiefMar 10, 2021 at 7:26 pmA man died after setting himself on fire in the backyard of his Brooklyn home Tuesday — a suspected suicide that set off a desperate hunt for the victim’s missing elderly mother, officials said.Cops and firefighters were called to Bedford Ave. near Avenue Y about 5:30 a.m. after someone frantically called 911 claiming a man was going up in flames.AdvertisementWhen first responders arrived, Jeanpaul Ventre, 46, was ablaze, police sources said.Firefighters doused the flames, but he died at the...…AdvertisementBy New York Daily News and Police Bureau ChiefMar 10, 2021 at 7:26 pmA man died after setting himself on fire in the backyard of his Brooklyn home Tuesday — a suspected suicide that set off a desperate hunt for the victim’s missing elderly mother, officials said.Cops and firefighters were called to Bedford Ave. near Avenue Y about 5:30 a.m. after someone frantically called 911 claiming a man was going up in flames.AdvertisementWhen first responders arrived, Jeanpaul Ventre, 46, was ablaze, police sources said.Firefighters doused the flames, but he died at the...WW…

AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsMar 09, 2021 at 10:23 pmA veteran NYPD sergeant has been fired after he was found guilty at a department trial of using a chokehold on a rear-handcuffed, shackled prisoner in a Brooklyn precinct holding cell earlier this year.Sgt. Fitzroy Vigilance was sacked Feb. 12, according to police discipline records AdvertisementVigilance, 46, was stationed to Brooklyn’s 71st Precinct stationhouse Jan. 3 when he pinned an unruly prisoner to his holding cell wall, grabbed him under his chin and slammed him to the floor, causing a bleeding head wound. by on ScribdThe...…AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsMar 09, 2021 at 10:23 pmA veteran NYPD sergeant has been fired after he was found guilty at a department trial of using a chokehold on a rear-handcuffed, shackled prisoner in a Brooklyn precinct holding cell earlier this year.Sgt. Fitzroy Vigilance was sacked Feb. 12, according to police discipline records AdvertisementVigilance, 46, was stationed to Brooklyn’s 71st Precinct stationhouse Jan. 3 when he pinned an unruly prisoner to his holding cell wall, grabbed him under his chin and slammed him to the floor, causing a bleeding head wound. by on ScribdThe...WW…

AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsMar 08, 2021 at 11:10 pmA NYPD officer was saved by his bulletproof vest Sunday night after a gunman shot him in the chest and grazed his partner’s leg at a Brooklyn apartment building, police sources said.Officers were responding to a call 911 call that an unhinged man shot his 45-year-old roommate in the leg in a second-floor apartment on Hawthorne St. near Flatbush Ave. in Prospect Lefferts Gardens about 9:15 p.m.AdvertisementThe 911 caller said the man was having a breakdown and talking to himself before the shooting, sources said.When police arrived...…AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsMar 08, 2021 at 11:10 pmA NYPD officer was saved by his bulletproof vest Sunday night after a gunman shot him in the chest and grazed his partner’s leg at a Brooklyn apartment building, police sources said.Officers were responding to a call 911 call that an unhinged man shot his 45-year-old roommate in the leg in a second-floor apartment on Hawthorne St. near Flatbush Ave. in Prospect Lefferts Gardens about 9:15 p.m.AdvertisementThe 911 caller said the man was having a breakdown and talking to himself before the shooting, sources said.When police arrived...WW…

AdvertisementBy New York Daily News and Police Bureau ChiefFeb 21, 2021 at 5:24 pmNYPD cops shot a teen vandal caught spraying graffiti in the Bronx, critically injuring him and blasting a pistol out of his hand after he opened fire on them early Sunday, police said.“I just hope my son is alright — I just hope he recovers,” Patterson Nantwi, the father of the shot teen, told the Daily News. “He’s a teenager going through teenage things.”AdvertisementA sergeant and two officers were patrolling in the South Bronx when they stopped two young men for spraying graffiti on a wall on Elton Ave....…AdvertisementBy New York Daily News and Police Bureau ChiefFeb 21, 2021 at 5:24 pmNYPD cops shot a teen vandal caught spraying graffiti in the Bronx, critically injuring him and blasting a pistol out of his hand after he opened fire on them early Sunday, police said.“I just hope my son is alright — I just hope he recovers,” Patterson Nantwi, the father of the shot teen, told the Daily News. “He’s a teenager going through teenage things.”AdvertisementA sergeant and two officers were patrolling in the South Bronx when they stopped two young men for spraying graffiti on a wall on Elton Ave....WW…

AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsJan 27, 2021 at 6:50 pmReady, willing and able.This was the simple credo by which a generous man lived his life, and the philosophy adopted by the nonprofit he started to give homeless men and women a chance.AdvertisementDoe Fund founder and president George McDonald died Tuesday after a battle with lung cancer, but not before he made an impact on the city by reaching into its gritty underbelly to put people back on their feet.“No person has done more to improve the lives of homeless adult men in New York City than George,” the company said in a statement...…AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsJan 27, 2021 at 6:50 pmReady, willing and able.This was the simple credo by which a generous man lived his life, and the philosophy adopted by the nonprofit he started to give homeless men and women a chance.AdvertisementDoe Fund founder and president George McDonald died Tuesday after a battle with lung cancer, but not before he made an impact on the city by reaching into its gritty underbelly to put people back on their feet.“No person has done more to improve the lives of homeless adult men in New York City than George,” the company said in a statement...WW…

AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsJan 18, 2021 at 9:48 pmThe mentally ill naked man electrocuted on the third rail of a Manhattan subway track stopped getting his regular mental health medications because of the coronavirus pandemic, his distraught mother told the Daily News.Malik Jackson, 35, battled schizophrenia since he was 17, and would hear disturbing voices — but was a kind, caring soul when he took his prescribed medication, his mother, Ethel Trammell, told The News Sunday.Advertisement“He has a mental disability and that’s the issue. My son is not like that, but because he hasn’t...…AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsJan 18, 2021 at 9:48 pmThe mentally ill naked man electrocuted on the third rail of a Manhattan subway track stopped getting his regular mental health medications because of the coronavirus pandemic, his distraught mother told the Daily News.Malik Jackson, 35, battled schizophrenia since he was 17, and would hear disturbing voices — but was a kind, caring soul when he took his prescribed medication, his mother, Ethel Trammell, told The News Sunday.Advertisement“He has a mental disability and that’s the issue. My son is not like that, but because he hasn’t...WW…

AdvertisementBy Police Bureau Chief and New York Daily NewsJan 13, 2021 at 9:38 pmFederal authorities on Tuesday night arrested a self-described Proud Boys member in Queens, searching his home after he made online threats about traveling to D.C. after the siege on the U.S. Capitol, according to law enforcement sources.Police and federal officials descended on a home on 76th St. at Eliot Ave. in Middle Village.AdvertisementA law enforcement source said the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested Eduard Florea, 40, on a weapons-possession charge.Florea has allegedly threatened to kill...…AdvertisementBy Police Bureau Chief and New York Daily NewsJan 13, 2021 at 9:38 pmFederal authorities on Tuesday night arrested a self-described Proud Boys member in Queens, searching his home after he made online threats about traveling to D.C. after the siege on the U.S. Capitol, according to law enforcement sources.Police and federal officials descended on a home on 76th St. at Eliot Ave. in Middle Village.AdvertisementA law enforcement source said the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested Eduard Florea, 40, on a weapons-possession charge.Florea has allegedly threatened to kill...WW…

AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsJan 11, 2021 at 11:13 pmA woman holding her daughter in her arms jumped off the roof of a Hell’s Kitchen building Sunday afternoon, killing both of them, police said.Both the 39-year-old mother, Oksana Patchin, of Brooklyn, and her 5-year-old daughter, Olivia, were taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, police said. They could not be saved.AdvertisementThe mother leaped off the 13-story building on W. 53rd St. near 11th Ave. at about 1:30 p.m., according to police.She was holding her child when she jumped.AdvertisementThe mother did not...…AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsJan 11, 2021 at 11:13 pmA woman holding her daughter in her arms jumped off the roof of a Hell’s Kitchen building Sunday afternoon, killing both of them, police said.Both the 39-year-old mother, Oksana Patchin, of Brooklyn, and her 5-year-old daughter, Olivia, were taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, police said. They could not be saved.AdvertisementThe mother leaped off the 13-story building on W. 53rd St. near 11th Ave. at about 1:30 p.m., according to police.She was holding her child when she jumped.AdvertisementThe mother did not...WW…

AdvertisementBy Police Bureau Chief and New York Daily NewsDec 17, 2020 at 8:18 pmThe U.S. government tried to deport the gunman who opened fire outside a Manhattan cathedral after a carol concert — but he was allowed to stay because of a decades-old law that protects longtime legal immigrants.About 30 years before Luis Manuel Vasquez-Gomez brandished two guns on the steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights, he was arrested for attempted murder and faced deportation after he was convicted of lesser charges.AdvertisementThat conviction was in 1991 — six years...…AdvertisementBy Police Bureau Chief and New York Daily NewsDec 17, 2020 at 8:18 pmThe U.S. government tried to deport the gunman who opened fire outside a Manhattan cathedral after a carol concert — but he was allowed to stay because of a decades-old law that protects longtime legal immigrants.About 30 years before Luis Manuel Vasquez-Gomez brandished two guns on the steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights, he was arrested for attempted murder and faced deportation after he was convicted of lesser charges.AdvertisementThat conviction was in 1991 — six years...WW…

AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsDec 09, 2020 at 9:46 pmThe Staten Island D.A.’s office decision to not seek bail for pub owner Daniel Presti is evidence that white suspects get kid-glove treatment in an “unequal” justice system, the city’s public defenders charged Tuesday.The Legal Aid Society slammed the office of District Attorney Michael McMahon for not requesting bail for Presti, who faces charges of felony assault on an officer and felony reckless endangerment.Advertisement“While Mr. Presti, a white man who stands accused of assaulting a police officer with his motor vehicle, is at...…AdvertisementBy New York Daily NewsDec 09, 2020 at 9:46 pmThe Staten Island D.A.’s office decision to not seek bail for pub owner Daniel Presti is evidence that white suspects get kid-glove treatment in an “unequal” justice system, the city’s public defenders charged Tuesday.The Legal Aid Society slammed the office of District Attorney Michael McMahon for not requesting bail for Presti, who faces charges of felony assault on an officer and felony reckless endangerment.Advertisement“While Mr. Presti, a white man who stands accused of assaulting a police officer with his motor vehicle, is at...WW…