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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Brittany Kriegstein

    NYPD arrests 25-year-old who stabbed a man to death on the J train (opens the original)

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    A Bronx man is facing murder and weapons possession charges for fatally stabbing a stranger on a J train in Queens on Wednesday afternoon, according to police. NYPD officials said Jyrell Thomas, 25, killed 59-year-old Mesias Lojano around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday aboard a southbound train at the Woodhaven Boulevard station. Thomas was taken into custody shortly afterward to be questioned, and was charged on Thursday morning, police said. Lojano was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he d

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Brittany Kriegstein

    A man who died on Rikers treated as ‘less than a human’ as family wages $25 million lawsuit (opens the original)

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    The week before John Price died in city Department of Correction custody in March, he told his family he was having to sleep sitting up in his cell — if he laid down, he felt like he was drowning. “He said, ‘I don’t feel good, they’re not helping me, they’re just sending me back to my cell,’” Price’s brother, Arnez Price, recalled. Several days later, on March 29, Price’s family received a call from doctors at Elmhurst Hospital. They told his family that Price was in their care, and that his hea

  3. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Brittany Kriegstein

    LES stabbing sends 3 men to the hospital as NYPD search for the top hat-wearing suspect (opens the original)

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    Police are looking for a man in a black top hat who stabbed three people on the Lower East Side early Wednesday, leaving them all hospitalized with injuries. NYPD officials said the attack happened around 1:15 a.m. in front of a deli near the intersection of Bowery and Delancey streets. The suspect got into an argument with a 26-year-old man, then stabbed him in the abdomen with a sharp object, according to police. When two other bystanders intervened, the suspect also stabbed them, police said.

  4. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Brittany Kriegstein

    Police are still investigating bike crash that killed dad of 2 in Central Park (opens the original)

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    A father of two who was critically injured when he was struck by a Central Park cyclist last week has died — leaving his family trying to raise money to get by without him. Richard O’Brien, 41, was walking to work around 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 23 when he was knocked to the ground by a 32-year-old man heading north on a pedal bike, according to the NYPD and the family’s GoFundMe page. Officials said it happened on East Drive, near 84th Street. The crash left O’Brien with “a severe and devastating bra

  5. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Brittany Kriegstein

    Man dragged to death by subway in Brooklyn after getting caught on closing doors (opens the original)

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    A man died on Monday evening when a shopping bag he was holding got caught in the closing doors of a Brooklyn subway car, leading him to get dragged to his death during rush hour, according to the NYPD. Police officials said the incident happened at 5:48 p.m. on the A train line at Utica Avenue. They said the man was exiting the subway when his bag got caught by the doors. As the train pulled away, the man was dragged in between the cars and onto the tracks, police said. He died at the scene. Po

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