Elizabeth Keogh – New York Daily News https://www.nydailynews.com Breaking US news, local New York news coverage, sports, entertainment news, celebrity gossip, autos, videos and photos at nydailynews.com Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:03:35 +0000 en-US hourly 30 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.nydailynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/cropped-DailyNewsCamera-7.webp?w=32 Elizabeth Keogh – New York Daily News https://www.nydailynews.com 32 32 208786248 Bronx MTA subway conductor smashed in head with glass bottle https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/03/06/bronx-mta-subway-conductor-smashed-in-head-with-glass-bottle/ Thu, 07 Mar 2024 02:59:27 +0000 https://www.nydailynews.com/?p=7565809 An MTA subway conductor was hit over the head with a glass bottle in the Bronx on Wednesday, days after a colleague was also attacked on the job.

The 38-year-old conductor was in her cab on the Manhattan-bound No. 4 train at the 167th St. station in Concourse when a man approached her around 11:50 a.m. and smashed her in the head with the bottle, police said.

The attacker took off, and the injured woman continued on with her job for two stops, until she spotted officers at the 149th St.-Grand Concourse station.

The conductor asked the cops for help, and they called her an ambulance. Medics took her to Lincoln Hospital in stable condition.

There were no arrests as police worked to track down the man who struck her.

The attack came just days after conductor Alton Scott, 59, was slashed at the Rockaway Ave. station in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on Thursday, according to police.

Scott was cut when he poked his head out of the conductor’s cab of the Far Rockaway-bound A train at around 3:30 a.m., cops said.

A doctor on the train applied pressure on the wound until medics arrived and rushed the injured man to Brookdale University Hospital, where he needed 34 stitches and nine sutures to close up the deep cut.

Police are still looking for that slasher.

Concerns about subway crime prompted Gov. Hochul on Wednesday to announce 750 members of the National Guard and 250 state and MTA police officers are heading to subway stations to inspect passengers’ bags.

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Suspect nabbed in fatal shooting of Brooklyn bodega worker over $2 cigarillo https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/03/06/suspect-nabbed-in-fatal-shooting-of-brooklyn-bodega-worker-over-2-cigarillo/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:38:13 +0000 https://www.nydailynews.com/?p=7564892 A suspect was arrested Wednesday for the fatal shooting of a Brooklyn bodega worker over a $2 cigarillo, cops said.

Daquan David, 29, is charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the Feb. 26 death of Nazim Berry.

Nazim Berry, 36, who was shot in the head and killed over a black-and-mild cigarette outside Amin Grocery and Deli at 801 Franklin Ave in Crown Heights on Feb. 26, 2024.
Victim Nazim Berry

David asked Berry for a free Black & Mild at the bodega on Franklin St. near Lincoln Place in Crown Heights but the employee said no, cops said.

David left and then returned with a gun, allegedly shooting Berry, 37, in the head.

Police investigate a fatal shooting on Franklin Avenue and Lincoln Place in Brooklyn, New York City on Monday, Feb. 26, 2024. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily News)
Police investigate the fatal shooting on Franklin Ave. and Lincoln Place in Brooklyn on  Feb. 26. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily News)

Cops found Berry outside the Amin Deli about 4:15 p.m.. Medics rushed him to Kings County Hospital but he could not be saved.

David’s arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court was pending Wednesday afternoon.

Danette Hollie, center, mother of Nazim Berry, overcome with emotion during a press before the United Bodegas of America and Pro-Health donate $8,000 to the family of Nazim Berry, a bodega clerk who was murdered over a cigarette, to help cover funeral expenses, at Shorey Grocery Corporation, 801 Franklin Ave, Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. (Shawn Inglima for New York Daily News)
Danette Hollie, mother of Nazim Berry, is overcome with emotion during a press conference in front of the bodega on Feb. 28. (Shawn Inglima for New York Daily News)

 

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Headless torso found inside Bronx apartment where wig-wearing man is caught on surveillance https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/03/06/headless-torso-found-inside-bronx-apartment-hours-after-neighbors-hear-shots-fired/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:20:52 +0000 https://www.nydailynews.com/?p=7564495 A headless human torso was found inside a Bronx apartment hours after neighbors heard shots fired, police and sources said Wednesday.

Cops discovered the remains inside a sixth-floor apartment on Summit Ave. near W. 162nd St. in Highbridge about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. The person’s legs and feet were attached but its arms and head were missing, a police source said.

Around 1 a.m. Tuesday, neighbors heard gunshots but did not call police, investigators have learned. But neighbors later told their super what they heard, and he called 911.

A still from surveillance footage taken inside the Highbridge building shows a man standing outside the scene of the crime. (Obtained by Daily News)
A still from surveillance footage taken inside the Highbridge building. (Obtained by Daily News)

“I have no idea why she didn’t call police when she heard gunshots,” said the superintendent, Orlando Medina. “I called in the wellness check the next morning about 11:30.”

Cops responded and were directed to the sixth-floor apartment, where they said a 30-year-old man let them in.

A still from surveillance footage taken inside the Highbridge building shows a man standing outside the scene of the crime. (Obtained by Daily News)
A still from surveillance footage taken inside the Highbridge building. (Obtained by Daily News)

Once inside, officers found the torso in a blue bin. The night before, a man was seen on surveillance standing next to a container in a hallway outside the victim’s door.

“I went and I checked the video,” said building super Medina, 49. “I saw him on the video acting weird. He was coming in and out with all kinds of stuff. It wasn’t normal.”

A man is seen in several different outfits, including one with a long blond wig, as he moved through the hall, stills from the footage show. Police could not confirm what happened in the video, saying they didn’t have it.

“I was going to call the police regardless of the gunshots [because of what I saw on the video],” said Medina. “It’s nuts. You see someone alive one day and the next day he’s cut up into pieces.”

A still from surveillance footage taken inside the Highbridge building shows a man standing outside the scene of the crime. (Obtained by Daily News)
A still from surveillance footage taken inside the Highbridge building. (Obtained by Daily News)

The man in the apartment was taken into custody for questioning. He asked for a lawyer and has clammed up, police sources said. No charges have been filed.

Cops have identified the victim as a 44-year-old man, who Medina says lived in the apartment. His name was not immediately released.

The man taken into custody did not live with the victim, according to Medina.

A headless human torso was found inside a sixth-floor apartment in a building on Summit Ave. near W. 162nd St. in the Bronx on Tuesday, March 5, 2024. The torso's legs and feet were attached but its arms and head are missing, a police source said. (Nicholas Williams for New York Daily News)
A headless human torso was found inside a sixth-floor apartment in a building on Summit Ave. near W. 162nd St. in the Bronx on Tuesday. (Nicholas Williams for New York Daily News)

A person who lives in the building but did not want to be named claimed the victim was a high-end drug dealer.

“He had a lot of money and it was drugs,” the resident said. “I don’t know what kind of drugs, but it was big.”

An autopsy will be performed to determine how the victim died.

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Crook impersonates priest, steals $900 from rectory bedroom at Queens church https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/03/05/crook-impersonates-priest-steals-900-from-rectory-bedroom-at-queens-church/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 03:46:36 +0000 https://www.nydailynews.com/?p=7563770 A burglar posing as a visiting priest fleeced a real holy man of nearly $1,000 at a Queens church, police said Tuesday.

The thief targeted the 63-year-old priest at the American Martyrs Roman Catholic Church on Bell Blvd. near Union Turnpike in Hollis Hills around 12:20 p.m. Sunday, according to cops.

The crook told the victim he was also a man of the cloth visiting the church from another country.

The priest believed him and invited him into the rectory, where the conman stole $900 in cash from his bedroom.

The phony priest later took off in a dark-colored sedan southbound on Bell Blvd., police said.

Police on Tuesday released images of the thief in the hopes someone may recognize him. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.

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Upper East Side man fed up after BMW wheel gets stolen for second time https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/03/05/upper-east-side-man-fed-up-after-bmw-wheel-gets-stolen-for-second-time/ Wed, 06 Mar 2024 02:59:12 +0000 https://www.nydailynews.com/?p=7563629 An Upper East Side man who had a wheel of his BMW stolen in October walked out of his apartment Tuesday morning to find a second one had been thieved from the car in almost the exact same spot.

George Gardner, 30, parked his ride on E. 81st St. near First Ave. on Monday night, he told the Daily News.

Hours later, he discovered his 2019 BMW M4 jacked up off the ground and missing a wheel — again.

“He left the jack, so it didn’t trigger the antitheft system,” Gardner surmised.

Gardner Conway's 2019 BMW M4 is pictured missing one competition rim Tuesday, March 5, 2024 in Manhattan, New York. Conway has had an expensive completion rim stolen from nearly the same spot in Oct. 2023. (Barry Williams for New York Daily News)
Gardner Conway’s 2019 BMW M4 is pictured missing one competition rim on Tuesday. (Barry Williams for New York Daily News)

It was the second time in five months he went outside to find his car missing a wheel, which retails for about $1,400, in the neighborhood.

“I was just kind of sitting there stunned that this happened again,” said Gardner. “Then I’m waiting for the police and the officer noticed me. She was like, ‘I know you, this car is familiar.'”

The same cop responded to his call for help on Oct. 3, when the thief was caught on camera stealing Gardner’s wheel.

After another one went missing, Gardner again went searching for surveillance footage, which a superintendent at a nearby building provided him with.

Gardner Conway's 2019 BMW M4 is pictured missing one competition rim Tuesday, March 5, 2024 in Manhattan, New York. Conway has had an expensive completion rim stolen from nearly the same spot in Oct. 2023. (Barry Williams for New York Daily News)
Gardner Conway’s 2019 BMW M4 is pictured missing one competition rim on Tuesday. (Barry Williams for New York Daily News)

As the frustrated man reviewed the video, he noticed the grainy shots of the thief’s getaway car appeared to match the one from the October larceny.

“The mannerisms look so familiar,” Gardner said. “I was like, that’s the guy, for sure.”

Gardner usually keeps his car at his parents’ northern New Jersey home, but since he’s mother’s health began to decline, he’s been keeping it outside his Upper East Side place, too, allowing him to make quick trips as needed.

“There are parts of the city where you think you didn’t get hit with a crime like this,” said Gardner, who lives in the posh neighborhood with his girlfriend.

He will have to fork over another $500 to his insurance company to replace the wheel — a hefty fee he paid just months earlier.

The NYPD last year cracked down on car thefts as reports of stolen vehicles surged citywide, The News previously reported.

Last month, there were 967 cars stolen off city streets, according to NYPD data released Tuesday. The figure marked a 13% downtick from February 2023, when 1,111 car owners reported theft.

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Slain Brooklyn 13-year-old’s mom speaks out for first time, rejects ‘gang’ imputation https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/03/04/slain-brooklyn-13-year-old-troy-gills-mom-speaks-out-for-first-time-rejects-gang-imputation/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 01:28:45 +0000 https://www.nydailynews.com/?p=7561409 The mother of the 13-year-old boy recently shot to death on his way home from a Brooklyn Nets game publicly spoke out for the first time on Monday, remembering her son as a bighearted boy and rejecting any suggestion that he was in a gang.

“He was a 13-year-old boy,” Troy Gill’s mother, Mary Culbertson, said through tears on Monday night. “He was a baby and that should’ve never happened to him or anyone else’s baby. He did not deserve that.”

Troy was walking alone near the corner of New York Ave. and Bergen Ave. in Crown Heights around 10:40 p.m. Thursday when a gunman fired off shots, hitting the boy repeatedly in the chest and arm, according to police.

Right afterwards, the young victim called his mother for help and told her he was running toward the nearby Brooklyn Children’s Museum, cops said.

Troy Gill, 13, was shot and killed while walking home from a Brooklyn Nets game on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024.
Troy Gill, 13, was shot and killed while walking home from a Brooklyn Nets game on Thursday.

Troy collapsed two blocks from where he was shot. Medics soon discovered the mortally wounded teen on the pavement and rushed him to Kings County Hospital, but he could not be saved.

“There are no words,” said Troy’s stepfather, Joseph Ward. “Parents shouldn’t have to bury their kids. It’s a nightmare.”

Detectives investigating the slaying linked the teen to the Trench Crew, a Bedford-Stuyvesant and northern Brooklyn street gang, though the boy’s involvement with the group wasn’t immediately disclosed.

Troy’s mother adamantly denied any suggestion he was involved in a gang.

“He was not in a gang,” said Cubertson, 41. “He was a great boy.”

Ward echoed the sentiment, insisting he wants “to change the narrative for Troy.”

“He loved to dance,” said Ward, 47. “He did James Brown and Michael Jackson impressions.”

13yr old Troy Gill was shot multiple times near Brooklyn Avenue and Saint Marks Avenue in Brooklyn on Thursday Feb. 29, 2024. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)
The victim, Troy Gill, stumbled away while heading towards his home — a half-mile away on St. Mark’s Ave. near Albany Ave. But he collapsed almost halfway there, at Brooklyn Ave. and St. Mark’s Ave., pictured here Friday morning. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

The boy’s heartbroken mother Troy as a friend to everyone.

“When I say everybody, it doesn’t matter who you were, where you were — he was your friend,” she said through tears. “I feel like that’s almost the reason why this happened, because somebody felt that he shouldn’t be friends with one person because they didn’t like that person.”

Troy was killed just shy of his 14th birthday, according to his stepfather.

“He had a big personality and he was too big to be here,” said Culbertson. “He’s gone but his spirit is here and he will always live on through all of us.”

(The intersection of Bergen Street and New York Avenue) 13yr old Troy Gill was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital after he was shot multiple times near Brooklyn Avenue and Saint Marks Avenue in Brooklyn on Thursday Feb. 29, 2024. 2240. Photos taken on Friday March 1, 2024. 0809. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)
The shooting happened 10:40 p.m. Thursday at New York Ave. and Bergen St., pictured here Friday morning. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

Troy lived with his mother, stepfather and two siblings in their Crown Heights apartment, where dozens gathered to remember the youth Monday evening.

“This is real,” said Ward, motioning toward a large makeshift memorial. “It’s a sad reminder but a reminder that he was loved.

“He was tiny but mighty,” the man added. “The earth was his turf.”

Police are still working to track down the gunman who killed Troy.

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64-year-old man kicked to subway tracks in random Manhattan attack https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/03/03/64-year-old-man-kicked-to-subway-tracks-in-random-manhattan-attack/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 01:03:03 +0000 https://www.nydailynews.com/?p=7559650 A man was kicked to the subway tracks in a random midtown Manhattan attack Sunday, according to police.

The 64-year-old victim was waiting on the A/C/E platform at the 34 St.-Penn Station stop when a man kicked him in the back around 4:50 p.m., cops said.

The target tumbled to the tracks as witnesses on the platform scrambled to help him back up.

The craven kicker, clad in all black, took off on foot.

Medics took the victim to Lenox Hill Hospital to be treated for pain to his knee and back.

There were no immediate arrests.

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60-year-old man fatally shot in Harlem apartment after neighbors hear arguing https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/02/29/60-year-old-man-fatally-shot-in-harlem-apartment/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:14:19 +0000 https://www.nydailynews.com/?p=7552535 A man was shot to death in his Harlem apartment on Thursday, according to police.

Cops told the man’s family that neighbors in the building on W. 116th St. near Malcolm X Blvd. heard arguing and gunshots around 9:30 a.m., according to the victim’s sister.

Officers were called to the walk-up building around 11:10 a.m. When they arrived, they discovered Tyrone Swinton, 60, unconscious and suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, according to police.

“I heard a lot of gunshots [and] when they brought him out on the stretcher, he was bleeding,” said witness Dean Davis, 40. “They were pumping his chest, but he wasn’t coming back.”

Police told neighbors in the building Swinton was shot eight times. Medics rushed the man to Mount Sinai Morningside, but he could not be saved.

The building superintendent told the Daily News that non-profit Community Access placed Swinton in the building. The organization assists various populations with housing, including those facing homelessness, people with psychiatric disabilities and veterans, according to their website.

“Anyone who’s shot eight times, that is a hit,” remarked superintendent Hal Walker.

A neighbor who did not want to be identified recalled Swinton often having people over who he would fight and argue with.

Swinton’s family told The News that a program coordinator at Community Access discovered the critically wounded man.

“She pushed the door open and he was laying on the floor dead,” said his sister, Yvette Swinton. “My head is killing me, I’ve cried so much. It’s unbelievable. It’s unbearable.”

Family gathered in his childhood home in Brooklyn on Thursday evening to mourn the loss of the man they remembered as a talented chef.

Tyrone Swinton on his 60th birthday in May 2023 (Family Handout)
Family Handout
Tyrone Swinton on his 60th birthday in May 2023

“I always went uptown to visit him and he would cook,” said his brother, Robert Swinton, Jr., 65. “We were really close.”

The victim had three adult children and three grandchildren.

“He was a great man, he cared for more people than he needed to,” said his son Deshon Swinton. “He had a big heart.”

There were no immediate arrests as police continued to investigate the slaying.

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Thieves beat deli clerk with hammers in Queens robbery https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/02/28/thieves-beat-deli-clerk-with-hammers-in-queens-robbery/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 04:02:25 +0000 https://www.nydailynews.com/?p=7550633 A pair of thieves beat a deli employee with hammers during a wild Queens robbery, police said Wednesday.

The robbers walked into Bread and Butter Deli & Grill in Astoria around 9 p.m. Feb. 14, cops said.

The men, both armed with hammers, began smashing display cases with their weapons.

A 24-year-old employee at the deli confronted the thieves, who attacked and pummeled him with the tools, police said.

The men took off, leaving the injured man in the deli with cuts and bruises all over his head and body.

Medics took the employee to Elmhurst Hospital Center in stable condition.

Police on Wednesday released photos of the robbers in the hopes someone may recognize them. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.

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Man fatally shot in head outside his Brooklyn apartment building https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/02/28/man-fatally-shot-in-head-outside-his-brooklyn-apartment-building/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 02:11:02 +0000 https://www.nydailynews.com/?p=7550487 A 33-year-old man suffered a fatal shot to the head outside his Brooklyn apartment building on Wednesday, police and sources said.

The victim was outside the Ebbets Field Apartment complex on McKeever Place near Sullivan Place in Crown Heights when two men approached him around 5:55 p.m., according to authorities.

One of the men fired off numerous shots, striking the victim in the head.

The attackers took off, along with about a dozen others who saw the shooting, witnesses said.

“There were three shots,” one of them told the Daily News. “Guys were running everywhere.”

The mortally wounded victim fell to the ground and leaned up against a parked car as cops and EMS raced to the scene.

“He was lying against the wheel bleeding shot from the head,” said a woman who lives in the same building as the man.

Medics rushed the victim to Kings County Hospital, but he could not be saved.

Police are searching for the two suspects, who may have fled in two separate cars.

The victim’s name was not immediately released as police worked to notify his family of his death.

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