CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — After news of the murder of Mervyn Johnson spread in the community residents grew angry with both the police and the Rabbis who attempted to muzzle vocal disdain towards the police. Much media attention was given to the homicide, which took place on the steps of Beis Rivkah, the largest Jewish girl’s school in the neighborhood.
CROWN HEIGHTS {CHI] — A Kingston Avenue store clerk was robbed earlier this afternoon. The incident took place at Celebration on Kingston Avenue near Crown Street, where a 55 year old black man asked for change of a $100 bill and snatched the change from the clerks hand as he was counting it.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — John Howells, a local handyman and longtime Crown Heights resident, was found dead by a group of Yeshiva Bochurim in an abandoned construction site nearly two weeks ago, now police have acknowledged that it was a brutal homicide.
A Brooklyn Laundromat attendant gunned down during a late-night robbery traded a series of heartbreaking phone calls with his family as he lay bleeding to death.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A man was shot and killed late last night during a robbery of a Crown Heights Laundromat. The incident took place shortly before 12:00am where according to police two black men entered the store and killed the attendant.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Over Shabbos a number of cars were broken into and their airbags were taken, an occurrence which unfortunately, in our neighborhood, barely raises an eyebrow. But an alarming new trend, thief’s ‘shopping’ for parts at night, should have car owners really worried.
A New York City man was sentenced to 25 years behind bars Friday for teaming up with his girlfriend to savagely beat her 4-year-old son to death.
Police are looking for the vandals who toppled gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn, authorities said yesterday.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] – Over Shabbos two cars were broken into and their airbags were stolen. Shomrim received reports that the break-ins took place sometime on Friday night on Crown Street.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A man armed with a shotgun had a one and a half hour standoff with police yesterday evening, prompting the response of many specialized NYPD units.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — An elderly Jewish woman was robbed as she was climbing the stairs to her home this afternoon. The incident took place alarmingly close to the police precinct, with the robber making off with her purse in a getaway vehicle.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — It was a sight reminiscent of decades past, stripped down cars lay waste on the city street, car stereos stolen in hourly occurrences, as well as the sight of cars missing their wheels and sitting atop four bricks. This is what greeted the proud owner of a brand new Infinity sports coupe on Friday morning, his car without wheels.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Shots rang out late last night, and one of the bullets struck a minivan that was driven by a Jewish man. The incident startled many residents inside their homes, but none more than the driver whose rear window suddenly exploded and a bullet remained lodged in the roof liner of his car.
A Brooklyn yeshiva teacher yesterday gave harrowing testimony of how he was brutally attacked on Thanksgiving by two teens, saying they briefly knocked him unconscious, then ripped off his Hasidic garb as he tried to escape and taunted him by shouting, “Jew! Jew!”
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Police have set up a crime scene inside of the construction site on Crown Street, where a couple of Bochurim found a dead body.
CROWN HEIGHTS [ABC7] — Eyewitness News has learned that police may have recovered the weapon used to murder a popular baker in Brooklyn.
A beloved baker — whose Brooklyn store was a staple in his West Indian community — was shot dead last night and his anguished relatives are asking for the gunman to come forward.
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