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Thirteen years before he was accused of murdering a police officer on a Queens street, career criminal Guy Rivera tried to rob a man, shooting at him at point-blank range — and missing. “He was standing like 2 feet away from me,” Ronald Foots, 64, told the Daily News on Wednesday. “I don’t know how he missed me. He was pointing at my stomach. God had his hand on me at the time because he ...
NEW YORK — An NYPD officer was shot in the stomach in Queens on Monday, police and sources said. The gunfire rang out on Mott Ave. near Smith Place in Far Rockaway around 5:50 p.m., they added. In a police radio transmission, frantic officers could be heard calling for an ambulance moments after their colleague was shot. “We need a bus here ASAP!” an officer screams into the radio. “We have an ...
Funeral arrangements were being made Tuesday as the city continues to reel from the slaying of NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller by an ex-con who pulled a gun during a routine Queens car stop, officials said. NYPD cops stood shoulder to shoulder Monday night as Diller’s body was taken out of Jamaica Hospital and transported to the morgue, then to a funeral home where thousands of cops are expected ...
NEW YORK (PIX11) — The NYPD officer who was shot to death in Queens and the man who was fatally pushed onto a Manhattan subway track are victims of one of New York City’s three major crises — recidivism, according to Mayor Eric Adams. The city’s other issues are severe mental health illness and random […]
An NYPD officer and a suspect were shot during a car stop in Queens on Monday, police and sources said. Officers with the Queens South Community Response Team pulled the suspect over near the corner of Mott Ave. and Smith Place in Far Rockaway just before 5:50 p.m., they added. During an exchange of gunfire, the officer was shot in the stomach and a suspect was shot once in the back, sources ...