Police said there were no immediate traces of trauma or drug use or signs of forced entry into the apartment. Both were pronounced deceased at the scene.Ī cause of death has not yet been determined. Police responded to a 911 call at the Ingersoll Houses in Fort Greene at approximately 3:45pm on Tuesday, May 18th, where they found 51-year-old Lisa Petty and 64-year-old Dandre Brown unconscious in their apartment. No arrests have been made in either case. Bobbsemple was driven to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. “I couldn’t sleep last night.”īirkett had been attending a memorial event for Miles Bobbsemple, 31, a Brownsville resident who was shot in the chest by a stray bullet at a house party on Remsen Avenue in East Flatbush on Monday, after an argument between two other attendees escalated.

“Nobody’s last breath should be lying on the concrete needing blood,” she said. State Assemblywoman Latrice Walker, who had been visiting her mother near shooting, told the New York Post that the street was covered in blood. She was taken to Brookdale Hospital where she was pronounced dead, cops said. Woman killed in drive-by shooting while attending friend’s vigilģ2-year-old Shalimar Birkett was fatally shot in the head at a vigil for a friend who had himself been killed by gunfire less than a day earlier.īirkett was standing with a group of people near 1769 Park Place in Weeksville when someone in a white sedan fired into the crowd before fleeing the scene. Nelson was hit with 30-day suspensions from the police department for each of the two priors, but it remains unclear what repercussions Nelson will face within the Department for the new arrest. In March 2019, he was arrested and charged with assault for a domestic incident, according to the Staten Island Advance. In August 2018, he was charged with drunk driving after he smashed into a guardrail near a Staten Island expressway. It was Nelson’s third arrest in four years. The arrest took place at 1:30am on Wednesday, May 19th within the confines of the 68th Precinct in southwestern Brooklyn. Off-Duty cop charged with criminal contemptģ5-year-old Nicholas Nelson, an NYPD officer, was arrested and charged with criminal contempt for calling his ex-girlfriend in violation of a restraining order, police said. There are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing. The hotel has been serving as a homeless shelter for much of the COVID-19 pandemic, though it remains unknown whether the victim was a resident there.ĮMS transported the victim to NYC Health & Hospitals/Kings County, where he was pronounced dead. The victim was knifed near the Artel Hotel and ran inside the building, where he collapsed, according to police. Officers found a 47-year-old male lying inside the building’s lobby with a stab wound to his chest. Just after 9:00pm on Tuesday, May 18th, police responded to an assault near 9 Malcolm X Boulevard on the border of Bed-Stuy and Bushwick, within the confines of the 81st Precinct. Here’s a rundown of some reported criminal activity this week in the borough of Brooklyn.

The latest spike includes a continued uptick in shooting incidents, as well as a 66% jump in grand larcenies and a 36% rise in felony assaults. New NYPD data shows crime across the city jumped 30% in April compared to the same month last year, when the pandemic was at its early peak in the city.

3 min read (Image: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)Ĭoncerns about an increase in crime continue to play a central role in the city’s mayoral race.

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