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NYC Substitute Teacher Arrested on Charges He Ripped Off 8-Year-Old Student’s Hijab
A New York City substitute teacher who was fired after ripping a hijab off the head of an 8-year-old Muslim girl has been arrested, police say. According to the New York Post, Oghenetega Edah turned himself in to police at the 45th Precinct in the Bronx on Wednesday after the NYPD’s Hate Crime Task Force…
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Disturbing Video Shows NYPD Cop Using Taser on Pregnant 17-Year-Old
New York City police are looking into an incident in which an officer deployed a stun gun on a pregnant 17-year-old in the Bronx during a chaotic scene that was caught on camera. WABC reports that officers were called to an apartment building in the Wakefield section of the Bronx on a separate issue when…
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Senior Citizen Attacked, Robbed While Waiting for Kidney Dialysis in the Bronx, NY
A 70-year-old woman was the victim of a brutal theft while she was waiting to get kidney dialysis in the Bronx borough of New York City, CBS New York reports. According to the report, at around 4:30 a.m. Saturday, Jean Richards stood alone on West 233rd Street, where she had just been dropped off by…
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Zaida Pugh, Cricket Prankster, to Volunteer With Youth Program
Zaida Pugh, 21, the Bronx, N.Y., woman who dropped live crickets in the New York City subway in August, told a court that she’s going to be volunteering with a youth program, according to the New York Daily News. She was charged with reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct for selling crickets and worms on a…
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NYC Man Fatally Shot After Argument With Gunman
Desmond Muller, a 24-year-old Bronx, N.Y., man, was fatally shot after getting into an argument outside a deli, the New York Daily News reports. At 2:55 p.m. Monday, Muller got into an argument with a group of men across the street from his apartment, authorities say. The deli was located on Union Avenue near East 163rd…
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Emotionally Disturbed NYC Man Dies After Police Use Taser on Him
An emotionally disturbed Bronx, N.Y., man was killed after a New York police sergeant used a Taser on him, police confirmed Wednesday, the New York Times reports. The man threatened a neighbor with a knife and police responded to a 911 call about the armed man, who was “acting violently” in a basement apartment, according to…
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Man Beats and Sexually Assaults 15-Year-Old, Then Dunks Her in River to Remove Evidence: Report
A man allegedly beat a 15-year-old girl at a park in the Bronx borough of New York City, sexually assaulted her and then attempted to wash off his DNA evidence on her body by forcing her into a river, the New York Daily News reports. The man reportedly attacked the teen at Bronx Park, where she…
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NYC Man Shoots BB Rifle From Roof of Building, Hitting 10-Year-Old in Classroom
Anfernee Olivo, 19, shot a BB rifle from the rooftop of his Bronx, N.Y., apartment Wednesday afternoon, striking a 10-year-old girl who was sitting in her classroom at the school next door, the New York Daily News reports. Lia Urena, 10, was hit in the forearm while sitting in her classroom on the fifth floor of…