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Former Tuskegee Airman Audley Coulthurst Dies at Age 92
Another former member of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen has died. Audley Coulthurst passed away Thursday at a Veterans Affairs facility in Brooklyn, N.Y., after suffering cardiac arrest, his daughter, Audra Coulthurst, said, the Associated Press reports. He was 92. According to the report, Coulthurst enlisted in the Army in 1942, ultimately becoming one of the…
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NYC Man Charged in Kidnap, Extortion and Killing of Landlord
Erskin Felix, 38, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was the mastermind of a plan that resulted in charges of first-degree kidnapping and second-degree murder in the abduction and death of a wealthy landlord, officials say. His brother, Kendall Felix, 28, was also arrested in the case on charges of hindering prosecution and tampering with evidence, CBS News reports.…
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NYC Woman Whose Child Died in Fire While Left Home Alone Will Not Face Jail Time
Leila Aquino, 21, faces three years’ probation after pleading guilty Friday to criminally negligent homicide in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Kalenah Muldrow, in February, CBS News reports. Aquino was out working as a stripper when her apartment in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., caught fire. When she returned home, firefighters had already…
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NYC Anti-Violence Activist Shot Dead in Fla.
Lavon Walker, 30, an anti-violence activist, died at a hospital after being shot Sunday on a street corner in Miami Beach, CBS News reports. The incident took place near the popular Miami Beach street Ocean Drive right before 7 a.m. Three suspects were seen in a surveillance video speeding away from the scene of the shooting…
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Police Search for 15-Year-Old Mom and Infant Son Who Vanished From NYC Group Home
Early Wednesday morning, Shantay Howington, 15, and her 2-month-old son, Demontae, vanished from a Brooklyn, N.Y., group home, the New York Daily News reports. Police say that mother and son were last seen around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday at the group home in the New York City borough’s Crown Heights neighborhood. Authorities say the mother has…
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NYC Couple Found Shot to Death in Apartment
Felicita Sotillo, 38, was found dead with her boyfriend in an apartment in New York City’s borough of Brooklyn early Wednesday morning, the New York Daily News reports. Police are investigating the crime scene as a murder-suicide. They believe that Sotillo’s boyfriend, 41, shot Sotillo in the head before shooting himself. According to the Daily…
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Man Arrested on Charges He Choked NYC Woman to Death
Authorities say that Rolanso Lexune, 32, was caught harassing Deneisha Smith, 27, on video footage inside the cellphone repair shop where she worked around 1 p.m. Saturday, the New York Daily News reports. Two months earlier, according to the News, Lexune had been court-ordered to stay away from Smith after he had assaulted her. Now,…
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NYC Cop Suing After Her Arrest on Charges of Stealing Home
New York City Police Officer Blanche O’Neal is suing the city for $50 million as a result of her arrest last year by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office on charges she stole a three-family row house in the city’s borough of Brooklyn, the New York Daily News reports. State Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun ultimately threw out…
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NYC Cops Search for Man Seen With Woman Hours Before She Was Killed
Jennifer Cohen, 35, was found beaten to death in a Brooklyn, N.Y., skate park around 9:10 a.m. Thursday, the New York Daily News reports. Cohen had multiple lacerations to her head. A man was seen on video walking with her a couple of hours before she was killed, authorities said. The two were seen walking…
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'Road Rage' Cop Who Fatally Shot Delrawn Small Fails to Make Bail
The New York City police officer who is facing murder charges after fatally shooting a civilian during an off-duty road rage encounter is on his way to jail because he could not raise the $500,000 bail set by a judge Tuesday morning, the New York Post reports. According to the Post, the judge ruled 37-year-old…