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While advocates and officials, often at odds, debate solutions and call for new funding, residents say the streets are becoming increasingly unsafe as they confront the daily reality of overlapping crises: mental health, homelessness and addiction.
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Malik Bob, 23, was charged Monday with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the recent death of Shayma Roman, 17, according to cops.
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Keyondre Russell, 18, will instead face weapon possession, evidence tampering and menacing charges in the Oct. 14 killing of Jayjon Burnett, the Queens D.A.’s office confirmed Sunday.
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Russell, 18, was charged with the murder of Jayjon Burnett, 15, during a dispute on a Far Rockaway A train.
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A state trooper, Christopher Baldner, faces a murder charge after he allegedly twice rammed the SUV in which Surrency’s daughter, Monica Goods, was a passenger. Surrency is pursuing civil litigation over her 11-year-old daughter’s death on Interstate 87 in upstate Ulster County on Dec. 20, 2020.