According to multiple reports this morning, a Nassau County police officer was shot and killed this morning in Queens, and three local schools have been locked down as officers search for a suspect.
NYPD ‘stop & frisk’ tactics under renewed scrutiny
This summer, the American public was shocked by an array of violent crimes committed by gun-wielding individuals across the country. In Aurora, Colorado on July 20, James Holmes walked into a midnight screening of the Dark Knight Rises with an arsenal of weapons, murdering twelve people and injuring 58. A few weeks later in Oak [...]

Two in hospital after sneaker fight in Ozone Park
The Queens Courier reports this morning that a fight broke out on July 20 in Ozone Park while customers waited in line for the special edition Air Jordan 7 Olympic Retro Sneakers.

Flushing HS principal arrested for meth possession
Afternoon update from NY1: A Queens principal pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct Wednesday night after sources say police found him to be in possession of methamphetamines.
Queens Today: Three men fatally shot in Jamaica
From the New York Daily News today, an early morning shooting in Jamaica left three dead in a gray Jeep Grand Cherokee. Three men died in a hail of bullets in Jamaica, Queens around 5 a.m. Saturday. Police arrived on the scene to find two men with multiple gunshot wounds inside a gray Jeep Grand [...]
MTA officer stabbed at Jamaica train station
MTA officer stabbed – NBC New York – An MTA officer shot and killed a suspect who stabbed him in the eye at a Queens Long Island Rail Road station Wednesday morning, police said. Officer John Barnett, 45, was stabbed on the sidewalk under the tracks at the Sutphin Boulevard and Archer Avenue station in [...]
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