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On December 31, 2024, nine days after the attack, police identified the victim, Debrina Kawam, a 57-year-old woman who had been reported as living in New York City homeless shelters since at least September 9, 2024, but who lived previously in Toms River, New Jersey.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The man accused of killing a woman sleeping on a New York City subway car by setting her on fire after what prosecutors say was a night of heavy drinking pleaded not guilty to ...
Millionaire Archie Harris and his health care aide were found butchered in 1996, and after the initial suspect was cleared the trail went cold -- until now. ... NY DA drops bombshell about new ...
It was a Saturday night and a group of friends were going to visit another friend. One of them would end up dead – the latest victim of a random act of gun violence in America.. Kaylin Gillis ...
On October 29, 1984, Eleanor Bumpurs was shot and killed by the New York City Police Department (NYPD). The police were present to enforce a city-ordered eviction of Bumpurs, an elderly and disabled African American woman, from her New York Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing unit at 1551 University Avenue (Sedgwick Houses) in the Morris Heights neighborhood of the Bronx.
The 1975 Supreme Court decision O'Connor v. Donaldson limited involuntary psychiatric hospitalization to those who posed a danger to themselves or others. Many states passed legislation following the ruling, including New York, which passed its Mental Hygiene Law in 1978, allowing involuntary hospitalization of people with mental illness if they were considered a danger to themselves or others.
The poor woman’s fiery death came just as Gov. Kathy Hochul sent 250 more National Guard troops into the Big Apple’s subway system for the holiday rush — swelling its $100 million subway ...
NYPD detectives are searching for a hooded man who was filmed spray-painting the words “Kill the Homeless” inside a Manhattan subway car — a week after a crazed migrant torched a homeless ...