#18 people shot, 2 fatally during bloody night

#18 people shot, 2 fatally during bloody night

“#18 people shot, 2 fatally during bloody night” Eighteen people were shot overnight in New York City overnight, including a mass shooting in Queens and two men who were shot dead in Brooklyn in separate incidents early Sunday morning. In Canarsie, a man was blasted just before 4:30 a.m. with multiple bullets in his torso by two gunmen, who fled the…

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#NYC shootings leave 13 people injured

#NYC shootings leave 13 people injured

“#NYC shootings leave 13 people injured” At least 10 people were injured in a shooting outside a Laundromat in Queens on Saturday – just one clash where bullets flew in another violent night across the city. A group of men on motor bikes or mopeds opened fire on 37th Avenue and 99th Street in Corona…

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#NYC motorcyclist killed in crash on Williamsburg bridge

#NYC motorcyclist killed in crash on Williamsburg bridge

“#NYC motorcyclist killed in crash on Williamsburg bridge” A motorcyclist was killed in a collision on the Williamsburg Bridge Saturday night. The unidentified biker was heading from Manhattan to Brooklyn on the span when he struck a car and crashed into a wall around 10 p.m., police said. No criminality was reported, according to detectives….

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#Pedicab driver killed in hit-and-run in NYC

#Pedicab driver killed in hit-and-run in NYC

“#Pedicab driver killed in hit-and-run in NYC” A pedicab driver was killed in Midtown Manhattan after a Connecticut driver allegedly rammed into his vehicle, ran him over and fled the scene. The deadly collision happened around 11:15 p.m. Friday, as the pedicab was transporting three female passengers on East 42 Street and Madison Avenue, police…

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#NYC teens shot at Sweet 16 party in Staten Island

#NYC teens shot at Sweet 16 party in Staten Island

“#NYC teens shot at Sweet 16 party in Staten Island” Two teenage boys were shot after a large fight broke out at a Sweet 16 party on Staten Island late Friday, police said. The 16-year-old victims were attending the bash on Harbor Road in Mariners Harbor when someone opened fire at around 11 p.m., according…

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#No, social workers don’t do better than cops at mental-health response

#No, social workers don’t do better than cops at mental-health response

“#No, social workers don’t do better than cops at mental-health response” Last month, New York City joined dozens of other cities experimenting with “alternatives” to policing by launching the Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division, or B-HEARD, in a pilot study in parts of Harlem. The program dispatches social workers and paramedics to certain mental-health-related…

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