WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (PIX11) – A homeless man admitted why he pushed a woman into a moving subway train in New York City on Monday. Markeese Brazelis, 26, allegedly pushed a 23-year-old woman into a moving A train at the 175th Street subway station in Washington Heights in Manhattan around 9 a.m., according to the […]
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, is looking to expand the state’s involuntary commitment laws to allow hospitals to force more people with mental health problems into treatment. This comes in response to a series of violent crimes in the New York City subway system. Hochul said Friday she wants to introduce legislation during […]
A sleeping woman was set on fire on a New York subway train by a man who appeared to sit and watch her burn to death. The victim is believed to have been sleeping on a stationary train at Coney Island-Stillwell subway station in Brooklyn on Sunday morning when the suspect calmly approached her and […]
Getty Images Police were called to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Station in Brooklyn after a woman on a subway car was set on fire A suspect has been arrested in New York over the death of a woman who was set on fire on a subway train in Brooklyn. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch described the incident […]
“Some people viewed Penny as callous and his actions as criminal on the day he encountered Neely, who had been shouting and acting erratically,” NBC’s Janelle Griffith and Erik Ortiz write. “Others contend Penny was selfless in his attempt to protect fellow passengers.” Others, the vice president-elect has made clear, like Vance. On the day […]
Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran at the center of a New York City subway murder trial, spoke out for the first time after a jury found him not guilty, noting that at the time of the incident he was in “a very vulnerable position.” “He was just threatening to kill people. He was threatening to…
NEW YORK (AP) — A pilot program testing AI-powered weapons scanners inside some New York City subway stations this summer did not detect any passengers with firearms — but falsely alerted more than 100 times, according to newly released police data. Through nearly 3,000 searches, the scanners turned up more than 118 false positives as […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Jury selection was set to begin Monday in the criminal trial of the U.S. Marine Corps veteran charged with manslaughter for placing a man in a deadly chokehold on a New York City subway train last year. Daniel Pennynow 25, is accused of “recklessly causing the death” of Jordan Neely, a […]
Two decades ago, Shahawar Matin Siraj started to feel uneasy about a plan to bomb a subway station in Manhattan. Osama Eldawoody, a New York City Police Department informant recruited after 9/11, had established himself as a father figure to Siraj, who was 21 when they met. Eldawoody was almost twice his age. He had […]
