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Apr 12, 2022 · 46. A man released a canister of smoke and opened fire on a subway train in Brooklyn during rush hour on Tuesday morning. At least 23 people were injured, including 10 by gunfire. The New York ...
Feb 13, 2024 · Kenny added that first responders found three of the shooting victims on the elevated subway platform and two more on the street below. A sixth person walked to a nearby hospital. One 35-year-old man died after being shot in the chest, Kenny said. Police identified him Tuesday as Obed Beltran-Sanchez.
- cattanasio@ap.org
- NYC Reporter
Feb 13, 2024 · Gunfire at New York subway station kills 1, injures 5. Police say teen dispute sparked shooting. An argument between two groups of teenagers riding the New York City subway exploded into deadly violence Monday when shooting started after the train’s doors opened at a station, killing a man and wounding five others.
Apr 13, 2022 · Over the last two years, shootings in New York are up 72.2%, and shooting victims up 70.4%. Transit crime, broadly, is up 68% compared to last year, numbers that are closer to where they were at ...
- Data on Shootings Diverge
- ‘We Need More Options’
- “That's Not Going to Fix It For Us”
Precinct-level data illustrate how, even amidst a citywide spike in nearly every major crime category, even neighborhoods that saw similarly brutal spikes in gun violence are experiencing the tail effects of the pandemic-era crime wave differently. Brooklyn saw a sharp rise in shootings in 2020, only to see a drop of just over 20% in 2021. To date ...
Observers have struggled to decipher why shooting trends differ between the boroughs. In general, the Bronx has long lagged behind other boroughs in key markers of health, wellbeing and socioeconomic standing, and was hit harder by the pandemic, said David Caba, the program director for Good Shepherd Services’ Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence progr...
Yet activists say they want to see law enforcement play a diminished role in increasing safety in vulnerable neighborhoods. While these areas are seeing different short-term trends in violence, they are dealing with the same root causes, said Keli Young, the civil rights campaign coordinator for VOCAL-NY. Across much of the Bronx and north Brooklyn...
Apr 13, 2022 · Frank R. James, the suspect in the Brooklyn subway shooting, is seen walking out of the Ninth Precinct in Manhattan’s East Village after his arrest on Wednesday. Jefferson Siegel for The New ...
- Isabella Grullón Paz
Apr 13, 2022 · Person of interest now considered a suspect: The NYPD has released photos of Frank R. James, 62, the man police say unleashed the attack inside a Brooklyn subway car Tuesday morning.
