The latest victim of the sick ‘knockout’ game plaguing Brooklyn was a 78-year-old woman from Midwood, who was attacked in broad daylight by a young man who walked toward her, balled up his fist and hit her with all his might on the top of her head, then ran off.
Another random assault was perpetrated against a Jewish child in Crown Heights this morning. The perpetrators – a pair of females – have not been apprehended.
A wild scene unfolded in Crown Heights today when police officers attempted to pull over a 15-passenger van. As police approached the van, the driver made a u-turn, struck a police car and number of other cars and fled. The suspect was eventually apprehended.
First it was just the residents, now even the police are frustrated. Just 12 days ago we reported on the arrest of a suspect tied to a string of burglaries that were occurring on Friday night. Just three days later, the suspect was released without bail. This weekend, a Crown Heights resident interrupted a burglary taking place in his home.
Crown Heights will soon begin seeing more police officers, auxiliary officers and perhaps even mounted units patrolling the streets during school dismissal times, the commanding officer of the 71st Precinct told CrownHeights.info. He also reported that progress has been made with the rock throwing incident that occurred last Wednesday.
At around 4:15pm today, Wednesday, as children all over the neighborhood were making their way home from school, a number of Jewish kids were pelted with rocks – and one of whom was struck in the face – in a random attack perpetrated by youth believed to be from a nearby public school.
Following CrownHeights.info’s coverage of the latest assaults on Jewish children and adults, general media, including TV and newspapers, themselves covered the story. Police confirmed that 8 incidents are being investigated as unrelated and possible hate crimes.
Sunday evening a young Jewish man fell victim to a violent assault by a gang of 10 thugs, which CrownHeights.info reported was part of a sick new ‘game’ called ‘knockout.’ We have now obtained video of the attack, which was captured on Post-Mark-It’s surveillance system.
In a recent trend, thieves have been following delivery trucks, waiting for the driver to leave a package at the recipient’s doorstep unattended. In this video, shortly after a package is dropped off by UPS, a woman sneaks up on the porch, grabs it and hurries off with it.
A young Jewish man became the victim of an unprovoked attack and was punched in the mouth while walking on Kingston Avenue Sunday Evening.
An African-American male was shot tonight on Carroll St. between Albany and Troy Aves., just as several of his neighbors were returning home from Shul. He was treated on the scene by EMS and rushed to Kings County Hospital.
This past Monday night the car of a Hatzalah volunteer was broken into. The thieves made off with expensive emergency medical equipment, including a $3,000 heart defibrillator.
After a hiatus of almost a year, the infamous Crown Heights wheels thieves are back. Their latest victim: a band new Honda sedan, whose four wheels were all stripped off and stolen.
Today at approximately 4:00pm, a 12-year-old Jewish boy was playing ball on President St. near Brooklyn Ave. when he was approached by two African-American males, who punched him in the head and fled.
A 65-year-old career criminal was apprehended and charged in connection with a slew of Friday night break-ins that have been terrorizing the neighborhood since early summer.
Late Friday night at about 4:30am, a Crown Heights resident woke up feeling little thirsty. He went downstairs to get a cup of water; as he descended he thought he heard some strange noises, but he chalked it up to the old age of the house and didn’t give it too much thought.
Hatzalah, police and Shomrim responded late Friday night when calls came in that a member of the Williamsburg Chasidic Jewish community was shot.
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