#AceBreakingNews – New York City police have arrested a man who is suspected of pushing a woman onto the tracks at a Bronx subway station over the weekend: The incident was the latest in a string of violent crimes on one of the world’s largest transit systems.
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Police had released a video of the incident, which happened on Sunday afternoon.(REUTERS: @NYPDTips via Twitter)none
Police said they had arrested Theodore Ellis, a 30-year-old Bronx resident, after receiving a tip.
The New York Police Department had shared video of the incident showing a man walking up behind a woman, wrapping his arms around her and tossing her over the platform onto the southbound tracks on Sunday afternoon at the Jackson Avenue station.
Local media reported bystanders helped the 52-year-old woman off the tracks before a train arrived and that she suffered a broken collarbone and cuts.
The woman was in hospital in a stable condition, a police spokesperson said.
A $US3,500 ($4,800) reward was offered for information leading to the arrest of the attacker.
Police arrested Mr Ellis on charges of assault and reckless endangerment. Mr Ellis could not be reached for comment, and it was not clear if he had a lawyer.
There are more than 3 million rides taken each weekday on the city’s subway, where serious crime remains rare, although numbers have been on the rise this year.
There were 743 felonies on the subway by the end of April compared to 452 for the same period last year.
Earlier this year, New York Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams vowed to increase police patrols and expand outreach to people with mental illness after an unusual number of passengers were pushed onto the subway tracks.
In April, a man shot at passengers inside a subway car in Brooklyn, leaving 10 people with bullet wounds.
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BBC News says Brooklyn shooting: Person of interest named in New York subway attack
Footage shows panicked crowds on NYC subway
New York City police have named “a person of interest” after a morning rush-hour shooting at a subway station that left more than 20 people injured.
Police said they were looking for Frank R James, 62, in connection with the attack as he had rented a U-Haul van that may be linked to the shooting.
The key to the van, rented in Philadelphia, was found at the scene.
“We are looking to determine if he has any connection to the train,” NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) asked “anyone with information on his whereabouts” to call a hotline.
Mr James has not been named as a suspect in the attack. Being identified as a person of interest means police believe he may have information concerning the crime.
Police say Frank R James rented a van that may be linked to the shooting
The New York Times reports that Mr James, who has addresses in Wisconsin and Philadelphia, appears to have posted dozens of videos on social media in recent years, in which he expresses bigoted views. More recently he had also criticised New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
In a briefing late on Tuesday, police gave more details of the incident which saw a male attacker detonate two smoke grenades and open fire at Brooklyn’s 36th Street station.
The attack unfolded shortly before 08:30 local time (12:30 GMT) on Tuesday, and police said the man had a Glock 9 mm semi-automatic handgun.
“He then fired that weapon at least 33 times, striking 10 people,” police chief Mr Essig said. Seven men and three women were shot.
Images from the scene showed bloodied passengers lying on the floor of the smoke-filled station.
Another 13 people “suffered injuries related to smoke inhalation, falling down or a panic attack”, the police chief said.
All of the victims are expected to survive.
“The male then fled the scene, and detectives are actively trying to determine his whereabouts,” Ms Essig said.
Investigators found the Glock handgun, three extended magazines, a hatchet and a range of potential incendiary devices at the scene.
A $50,000 (£38,450) reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the suspect.
Police say the gunman was roughly 5ft 5in tall and 170lb (77kg). He was said to be wearing a construction vest, grey hooded sweatshirt, and a gas mask.
The attacker’s motive was not immediately known.
Law enforcement officers stand guard at the scene of the shooting in the Brooklyn borough of New York City
New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said earlier on Tuesday that the shooting was not initially being treated as an act of terrorism.
Witnesses have described hearing people shouting for medical assistance and fleeing in panic. Brooklyn resident Yayha Ibrahim said he saw people running from the 36th Street station.
“I saw a lady, she was shot right in her leg and she was screaming for help,” he told Reuters news agency. Rescue workers “did a good job of coming quick and fast, and the ambulance came in and they took her”, he added.
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“My subway door opened into calamity. It was smoke and blood and people screaming,” eyewitness Sam Carcamo told the Associated Press. He added that a billow of smoke poured out of the train once its doors opened.
Images shared on social media showed injured people inside the smoke-filled station
Initial police investigations into what happened may have been hampered by a failure in the station’s surveillance system.
“At that particular station there appeared to be some form of malfunction with the camera system,” Mayor Adams later said.
Responding to the attack, President Joe Biden expressed gratitude to “all the first responders who jumped into action, including civilians who didn’t hesitate to help their fellow passengers.”
US cities have seen a rise in gun violence over the past two years.
“This insanity that is seizing our city has to stop,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said after the attack. “We say no more. No more mass shootings. No more disrupting lives.”
BBC News: Brooklyn shooting: Seventeen injured in New York City subway station
Footage shows panicked crowds on NYC subway
Seventeen people have been injured in a shooting during the morning rush hour at a New York City subway station.
The unidentified attacker detonated a smoke bomb and opened fire at Brooklyn’s 36th Street station at 08:30 local time (12:30 GMT).
Images from the scene showed bloodied passengers lying on the floor of the smoke-filled station.
Officials are appealing for information about the gunman, who fled the scene and is still at large.
“An individual donned a gas mask, he then opened fire striking multiple people on the subway and on the platform.” New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said.
The attacker then fled wearing what Ms Sewell said was a green construction-type vest and a grey sweatshirt.
“This is not being investigated as an act of terrorism at this time,” she added.
Police have since tracked down a rental van they had been searching for in connection with the attack, according to the Associated Press, but the suspect wasn’t there.
Ten of those who are being treated for injuries were shot, while others suffered smoke inhalation as well as injuries sustained during the initial panic.
Five people are in a critical but stable condition. None of the injured are believed to be in a life-threatening condition, police said.
Officers are still working to establish a motive for the attack.
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“My subway door opened into calamity. It was smoke and blood and people screaming,” eyewitness Sam Carcamo told the Associated Press. He added that a billow of smoke poured out of the train once its doors opened.
Images shared on social media showed injured people inside the smoke-filled station
Another witness, identified only as Claire, told the New York Post that she had “lost count” of the number of shots that were fired.
The woman said she saw the suspect dropping “some kind of cylinder that sparked at the top” – initially believing him to be a subway worker because of the vest she said he was wearing.
New York’s fire department told the BBC it originally received a call about smoke inside the station.
But officials arrived to find multiple people shot and injured.
Initial police investigations into what happened may have been hampered by a failure in the station’s surveillance system.
“At that particular station there appeared to be some form of malfunction with the camera system,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams later said.
Responding to the attack, President Joe Biden expressed gratitude to “all the first responders who jumped into action, including civilians who didn’t hesitate to help their fellow passengers.”
US cities have seen a troubling rise in gun violence incidents over the past two years.
“This insanity that is seizing our city has to stop,” New York Governor Kathy Hochul said after the attack. “We say no more. No more mass shootings. No more disrupting lives.”
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#AceBreakingNews – Amber Heard Sounds Off Before Johnny Depp Defamation Trial: “I Have Always Maintained A Love For Johnny” as Johnny Depp’s multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against Amber Heard is set to start on Monday according to Deadline News by Bruce Haring
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But before the fireworks begin, Amber Heard gave her Instagram followers a taste of her mood.“Johnny is suing me for an op-ed I wrote in the Washington Post, in which I recounted my experience of violence and domestic abuse,” Heard wrote. “I never named him, rather I wrote about the price women pay for speaking against men in power. I continue to pay that price, but hopefully when this case concludes, I can move on and so can Johnny.”She added, “I have always maintained a love for Johnny and it brings me great pain to have to live out the details of our past life together in front of the world. At this time, I recognize the ongoing support I’ve been fortunate to receive throughout these years, and in these coming weeks I will be leaning on it more than ever.”
Earlier, Depp took a hit in his efforts to hobble his ex-wife’s defense and $100 million countersuit. In a short hearing, Virginia Judge Penney Azcarate ruled against Depp’s summary judgment motion and said Heard can, in fact, utilize the state’s anti-SLAPP statute.
SLAPP is an acronym for a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. A SLAPP suit is a civil complaint or counterclaim filed against people or organizations who speak out on issues of public interest or concern.
That means that her attorneys can argue Heard is deserving of immunity in front of the jury — and that undercuts a large swath of Depp’s legal strategy.
Depp has previously claimed Heard is “not a victim of domestic abuse, she is a perpetrator,” Depp’s spring 2019 suit even alleged the WaPo op-ed cost him a lucrative role in a potential relaunching of the Piratesfranchise by Disney.
Both Depp and Heard have weathered ups and downs in the matter.
Heard failed in her moves to get the suit moved to California and dismissed, before countersuing Depp in September 2020. After losing his UK libel suit against Rupert Murdoch’s The Sun tabloid in November 2020 after calling him a “wife beater” (an appeal was denied in March 2021), Depp also came up short in January 2021 in his desire to see Heard’s big-bucks countersuit tossed out.
Dominic Patten contributed to this report.#AceNewsDesk report ………..Published: Apr.11: 2022:
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#AceBreakingNews – A 20-year-old New York woman’s cold case homicide solved 42 years later: ABC News – Published: 30 March 2022, 20:52
Source – Project: Cold Case – How 42-year-old New York homicide case solved
Eve Wilkowitz, 20, was kidnapped and killed leaving a train station in New York in 1980.
Eve Wilkowitz was 20 years old in 1980 when she was kidnapped, raped and strangled to death after she took a train home to Bay Shore, New York, from her secretarial job in Manhattan. Her body was found near her apartment on Long Island.
On Wednesday, Suffolk County police and prosecutors announced the killer was a man who died of cancer in 1991 and who had lived near the spot where Wilkowitz’s body was found three days after she never came home.
Investigators relied on advances in DNA technology to identify the suspect as Herbert Rice, who was 29 at the time.
“We’ve solved the 42 year old homicide case of Eve Wilkowitz,” Suffolk District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced at a news conference. “This was a study in persistence, in determination to work the case no matter what.”
Investigators relied on genetic genealogy, which has been used to help solve a number of cold cases across the country. It enabled police and the FBI to submit the DNA left on Wilkowitz’s body to consumer DNA databases that include countless people outside the criminal justice system.
A photo of 20-year old Eve Wilkowitz from Project: Cold Case. The more than four decades old homicide case of Wilkowitz has finally been solved and the identity of the killer is now known, Suffolk District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced March 30, 2022.
A match was established through a relative of Rice. Investigators exhumed Rice’s body and compared DNA from his remains to the sample recovered from the initial rape kit, establishing him as the suspect.
Wilkowitz’s sister, Irene, thanked the investigators and recalled, through tears, when detectives knocked at her door with a message: “We’ve identified the person responsible for the death of Eve.”
“She never got to fulfill her dreams,” Irene Wilkowitz said of her sister.
Rice had three convictions for minor crimes that were ineligible for taking a DNA sample at the time.
“These types of investigations are never easy, but the relentless work and partnership helped us bring closure to the Wilkowitz family,” Suffolk Police Commissioner Rodney Harrison said.
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#AceBreakingNews – ROCHESTER, N.Y. — New York State Police say a woman was killed before a Rochester Police Officer was found dead in a car at a park.
The following is a summary of events provided by the NY State Police: On March 14, 2022, at approximately 7:53 a.m., the New York State Police were contacted by the City of Rochester Mayor’s Office and the City of Rochester Police Department Chief of Police to investigate a possible homicide in the city of Rochester. Further investigation by the Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) and NYSP Forensic Identification Unit identified the victim as Janet S. Jordan, 35 of Rochester, NY, who was found deceased inside a residence on Wetmore Park. Through the investigative process, Melvin A. Williams, 43 of Henrietta, NY was determined to be a person of interest. Williams was later located deceased in a vehicle at Veterans Memorial Park in Henrietta, NY. Williams was an employee of Rochester Police Department.
The City of Rochester and Rochester Police Department have expressed their appreciation for the assistance of State law enforcement partners.
The State Police Forensic Identification Unit, Rochester Mayor’s Office, Rochester Police Department, Monroe County District Attorney’s Office, Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and the NY Attorney General’s Office are assisting in this investigation.
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