New York

Murder
March 6, 2022

Boyfriend Brutally Stabs to Death Mom and 6-Year-Old Daughter

A Bronx mother and her 6-year-old daughter were found stabbed to death late Saturday night, and hours later police found the man they believe was responsible dead from an apparent suicide. Police conducted a wellness check just before midnight and found Gabrielle Muniz, 26, and her daughter, Rosara Estevez, with “stab wounds about their bodies.” …

Murder
March 5, 2022

Missing New York Woman Found Dead in State Park

A 22-year-old New York man has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of a woman whose body was found five days after she was reported missing. Morgan Bates, 20, was reported missing on February 22. Her body was found Sunday in Cherry Plain State Park in Petersburg. The Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office …

Drunk pilot
March 2, 2022

Drunk Pilot Blows 4 Times Legal Alcohol Limit, Gets Taken Out of JetBlue Cockpit

A JetBlue pilot was pulled out of the cockpit of his aircraft Wednesday morning in Buffalo, New York, after he registered a blood alcohol content more than four times the legal limit for pilots. According to the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA), a Transportation Security Administration officer notified them when he suspect James Clifton, 52, …

Unsolved
February 26, 2022

Shock as Highbridge Woman Dead Found Inside Storage Container

The decomposing body of an East Harlem woman was found Friday afternoon in a plastic container across the street from a Bronx storage facility. Police identified the body as that of 35-year-old Nisaa Walcott, who worked as a beautician, the New York Daily News reported. According to WABC, the body was found by a passerby …

School Crimes
February 9, 2022

Student, Security Guard Shot in Buffalo High School Parking Lot

The FBI has joined state, county, and city police in Buffalo, New York, for a manhunt after a gunman opened fire in a high school parking lot, wounding a student and a security guard. Authorities have not described or named the suspect or said if the suspect is a student. A police source said the …

Suicide
January 30, 2022

Former Miss USA Cheslie Kryst Leaps to Her Death From New York High-Rise

A former Miss USA pageant winner died Sunday when she jumped to her death from a Manhattan high rise, police said. Cheslie Kryst, who won the contest in 2019, jumped from a common area on the building’s 29th floor shortly after 7 a.m. Kryst, 30, lived on the ninth floor of the 60-story apartment building, …

Police
January 23, 2022

Suspect in NYPD Cop’s Murder Kept Firing After Officers Were Down

The man charged with shooting two New York police officers responding to a domestic call on Friday kept firing at the two officers even after they were down on the floor of the Harlem apartment. Jason Mora, 22, was killed in the shooting, and his partner, 27-year-old Wilbert Mora, was left clinging to life in …

Lawsuit
January 22, 2022

Toddler Left Alone With Mom’s Dead Body for 5 Days: Court Docs

A New York father is suing the city and the Department of Homeless Services after his toddler daughter was found “covered in human feces” and trapped alone with her the corpse of her mother, who died of an accidental overdose. Lyric Laboy was rushed to a hospital last July, badly dehydrated, when family center workers …