NYPD, shooting and man in Washington Heights
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Police were asking the public Wednesday to look out for a mother and young daughter who went missing from their Brooklyn home this week. NYPD officials said 20-year-old Jayla Echevarria and 3-year-old Nova Echevarria were last seen leaving their building on East 96th Street and Linden Boulevard in East Flatbush around 2 p.m. Monday.
Lahione Soto, of the Dominican Republic, died after he was shot by the cop outside a residential building in Washington Heights.
A 26-year-old man was arrested in connection with placing a cylinder-like object outside an NYPD satellite precinct in Times Square before running off.
The wife of slain New York Police Officer Didarul Islam, one of five people fatally shot at a midtown Manhattan high-rise last month, has given birth to a son, police announced Monday
Upon seeing the weapon, the off-duty officer quickly drew his own gun and fired multiple rounds at the suspect.
Desean Maryat, 26, is facing a slew of crimes, including reckless endangerment, making terroristic threats and threatening mass harm, when he placed the cylinder-like object outside an NYPD
The wife of slain NYPD officer Didarul Islam, who was among five people killed in a mass shooting last month, has given birth to the couple's third son.
The homeless man who was struck and killed by a driver on Union Turnpike in Fresh Meadows on the night of Tuesday, Aug. 12, has been identified by the NYPD a