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Family of Montrell Williams announces $60 million claim against NYPD for negligence in toddler’s murder

By Emily Swanson

A view of Westchester Avenue in the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx, where police say a masked gunman fatally shot a man outside ExoticWorld Smoke Shop on Aug. 7

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Masked gunman fatally shoots man in head outside Bronx smoke shop, police say

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Edenwald

47th precinct celebrates National Night Out while mourning fallen officer

By Emily Swanson

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Community Service

Photos: 40th Precinct community affairs holds giveaway of dorm room essentials

By Ethan Marshall and Jewel Webber

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Rapes nearly double, burglaries and grand larcenies plummet across Bronx in July 2025 NYPD crime data report

By Ethan Marshall

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Grieving family of infant River Wilson alleges negligence in Castle Hill daycare drowning

By Emily Swanson

police vehicle on darkened block at scene of crime

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Bronx playground brawl leaves 14-year-old boy stabbed to death: cops

Dozens of uniformed officers released white balloons into the night sky, Friday to pay tribute to the fallen detective from the 47th precinct in the Bronx, Didarul Islam.

Local precinct remembers its fallen detective in interfaith memorial

By Sadie Brown

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Bronx man accused of torturing girlfriend to death arrested after neighbor pursuit

police at night with car in front at scene of deadly shooting

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Man in Bronx shot dead at public housing complex in neighborhood’s third murder this week

police officers carry casket of slain cop as family mourns in background and officer salutes

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NYPD officer slain in Midtown mass shooting given a hero’s tribute at Bronx funeral

A black Dodge Durango, seen here in surveillance footage, was used as a getaway vehicle in two armed robberies that occurred minutes apart in the Bronx, police said.

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Police seek Bronx robbery crew in two street stickups 20 minutes apart – a day before double homicide

Surveillance footage showed 27-year-old Austin Morrishow firing a gun from behind a parked car. Authorities said one of Morrishow's bullets, which he possessed illegally seriously injured a 5-year-old girl who was sitting in the back of her father's car.

Bronx man sentenced to 15 years in connection with shooting that seriously injured 5-year-old girl

By Sadie Brown

police officer smiling in front of American and New York flag

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Funeral services set for Bronx cop slain in Midtown mass shooting

People walking into Bronx home of slain officer in Midtown mass shooting

MIDTOWN MASS SHOOTING: Officer Didarul Islam’s Parkchester neighbors remember him as friendly, prayerful

By Emily Swanson

Police work the scene of a double fatal shooting near Ferry Point Park in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx on Monday, July 28,

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Gunmen in ski masks fatally shoot two near Bronx park, flee on moped: NYPD

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