Kimberly Gotti, 55, and her 23-year-old daughter, Gianna Gotti, were attending an evening matchup between the Oyster Bay and Locust Valley high school boys’ basketball teams, which was being hosted by the latter in Lattingtown, according to NBC News. Gotti Jr.’s son Joseph reportedly plays for Oyster Bay.

A heated in exchange in the stands that occurred shortly after 8 p.m. allegedly prompted a 47-year-old woman to admonish adults who were hurling homophobic and misogynistic slurs at students.

Kimberly Gotti is accused of rushing that woman, punching her and taking the alleged victim’s hat, while Gianna allegedly joined in on the punching, tore at the woman’s hair and later boasted about the beatdown.

The victim reportedly suffered scratches to her face and injuries to her scalp, which she told police felt like it “was going to be ripped off.”

The Gotti women were arrested and spent the night in jail, but pleaded not guilty to third-degree assault, according to NBC News.

A Gotti family lawyer meanwhile claimed Kimberly Gotti was the first person punched in the fracas by the “very belligerent” other woman. He said Gianna only stepped in to help her mother.

John Gotti Jr., who was seen leaving court in Hempstead on Friday alongside his wife and daughter, told CBS News that his family has no plans to press charges.

Gotti Jr. is the son of infamous Gambino crime family boss John Gotti, who died of cancer in prison in 2002. “Junior” ran the crime family while his father was serving his life sentence.

Nassau County Police were unable to provide further information on the case against the Gotti women. They’re due back in court on March 6.

At a press conference Thursday, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said a “meticulous” multiagency review determined two officers were assaulted after they told a group of young men outside a Midtown shelter to disperse, and one refused.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said the group was impeding pedestrians outside the shelter on W. 42nd St. near Seventh Ave. when 24-year-old Yohenry Brito — who’s being held on Rikers Island — became hostile.

“Everybody disperses except for Mr. Brito. He turned around and got confrontational with the police officers,” Kenny said. “He refused a lawful order, they attempted to place him under arrest, and the melee began with the officers trying to take Mr. Brito into custody, and the next thing you know, they’re being attacked by 13 other people. So that’s how it started.”

Footage released hours after the press conference appears to conflict with that narrative and claims that the group was blocking pedestrians while gathered by concrete dividers near the curb.

“Hey! Por favor! Como esta. Vamos. West 41! West 41! Go to West 41! Move! Vamos!” one of the cops is heard saying.

The video shows most of the group immediately complying, singing in unison as they walk away. But Brito lags behind and ignores the officers while looking at his phone, then gets confrontational with a cop who tries to nudge him along.

“Don’t touch me,” Brito says in Spanish more than once.

As Brito walks away, he stops to retrieve a baby stroller on the sidewalk. Body-cam footage shows him pushing the stroller and starting to walk away from the cops again before quipping in Spanish that one of the officers looked like the fictional TV character “Ugly Betty.” NYPD Lt. Ben Kurian then grabs him by the scruff of the neck and throws him up against a wall.

In the footage captured by the lieutenant’s bodycam, Brito repeatedly asks what is happening in Spanish. The situation quickly escalates as Brito tries to escape Kurian’s grasp, with both tumbling to the ground in seconds.

Officer Zunxu Tian then intervenes, and several of those with Brito descend on the two cops and repeatedly grab and kick them as they grapple with Brito on the ground, various pieces of footage show.

Neither of the officers was seriously injured, according to the NYPD. In the immediate aftermath, one of them is heard on body cam footage telling a colleague the fight started when they sought to “clear out” the migrants from the front of the shelter.

In all, seven of the 11 asylum seekers suspected of involvement have been indicted on a range of charges carrying significant prison time. Prosecutors are looking to speak with five unindicted suspects.

A spokesperson for the Legal Aid Society, representing Yorman Reveron, one of the initial arrestees, said his lawyers were still probing what happened but that the bodycam footage suggests charges should be dropped against the 24-year-old who’s been “fully compliant with the court’s conditions” since his release under supervision. Reveron is accused of grabbing one of the officers, pulling him away from the struggle with Brito, and pushing both cops to the ground.

“Late last night, we were finally provided discovery by the DA’s office, including body worn camera footage and other evidence,” Redmond Haskins said. “On its face, the footage directly contradicts the narrative peddled by law enforcement. We are still conducting our investigation and review, but based on this footage, these charges should have never been brought against our client.”

The whereabouts are unknown of two of those indicted accused of playing a more direct role, like kicking and grabbing the officers while they wrestled with Brito, who fled the scene and was arrested days later and held on $15,000 cash bail or a $50,000 bond. His attorney couldn’t be reached.

Some of those hit with felony charges in the indictments unsealed Thursday include two members of the group who aren’t accused of touching either officer. Kelvin Servita Arocha, 19, faces more than seven years in prison if convicted of assault and obstructing government administration for allegedly kicking an officer’s radio. Authorities now say Wilson Juarez — accused initially of assault — watched from the sidelines and changed sweaters with someone afterwards. He could serve up to four years if found guilty of tampering with physical evidence.

Juarez’s attorney said the newly released footage directly contradicted what law enforcement said about anyone in the group refusing to comply with the dispersal order, noting the initial version of events had already been altered to clear her 24-year-old client of assault allegations.

“Originally, Mr. Juarez was arrested and charged with assault on a police officer, and his name and picture spread all over the media outlets,” Adrienne Edward said.

Edward said the deluge of media coverage couldn’t be taken back and lamented elected officials exploiting the hot-button issues for political gain.

“This case has garnered so much media attention and the politicians are using it as part of their reelection,” Edwards said.

Asked Friday to clarify what prosecutors believe Brito did to prompt being grabbed by the lieutenant, Bragg’s spokesman Doug Cohen declined to expand on what’s in the charging papers — which say he had declined to comply with orders to disperse, contrary to the newly released footage. A spokesperson for the police department did not respond to a request for comment.

The incident set off a media frenzy and led police unions and right-wing groups to call on DA Bragg to resign for not seeking bail for the suspects initially charged and Gov. Hochul to call on authorities to “get them all and send them back” to their native countries.

When asked about the conflicting information presented by the police footage on Friday, the governor said she wouldn’t “second guess” the information the DA has “in making sure that we take people who have committed crimes off the streets.”

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The 25-year-old was in NYPD custody in a holding cell at the 100 Centre St. courthouse about 6 a.m. Friday when cops discovered he was having a seizure, police officials said.

While medics were on their way, the man went into cardiac arrest and was given CPR. The medics rushed him to New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, but his condition worsened and he died later Friday, police said.

The NYPD Force Investigation Division was investigating, and cops could not immediately say why the man was first arrested. His name was not released.

The death was also being looked into by the New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation, a source familiar with the matter said.

Guardian Angel Kimberly Torres filed a harassment complaint against the 22-year-old man, who was surrounded and strong-armed to the ground during a live Fox News interview focusing on the city’s migrant crisis that Sean Hannity conducted with Sliwa this week.

In a video released Friday on X, Torres, who identifies herself as a Mexican, a mother and a Muslim, said she was trying to “deescalate the situation” when the Bronxite shoved her.

“He was aggressive, very angry,” Torres explained, getting emotional at times during the video, which she recorded in both English and Spanish. “He took his hands with all his might and all his force pushed me. I went back. At that point, the Guardian Angels saw me hurt. They came to my defense.”

Torres, who wears a Muslim headscarf under her red Guardian Angels beret, is behind Sliwa during the segment and can be seen confronting the pedestrian before the takedown.

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As the altercation was filmed, Sliwa identified the man as a “migrant” and a “shoplifter,” although neither were true.

“Our guys have just taken down one of the migrant guys right here on the corner — 42nd [St.] and Seventh [Ave.],” The 2021 GOP mayoral candidate said. “Let’s just say we gave him a little pain compliance. His mother back in Venezuela felt the vibrations. He’s sucking concrete.”

The 22-year-old eventually received a summons for disorderly conduct.

Surveillance video contradicted what Sliwa said. The man the Angels roughed up “may have been a little bit drunk, but he was just trying to make his way down Seventh Ave. when Sliwa’s goons stopped him,” a police source with knowledge of the case said. “He tried to push past them and they strong-arm him to the ground,”

A high-ranking NYPD police official said Torres was recorded on body worn camera saying she didn’t want to file a complaint right after the incident, although she has every right to change her mind and file a complaint at a later date.

It was not immediately clear if the man was facing harassment charges Friday.

Police were continuing to painstakingly investigate every aspect of the incident, from the man and the Guardian Angels’ actions to steps taken by responding officers, the police official said.

“It’s a very thorough investigation,” the source said.

Facing a torrent of controversy over his flippant flub, Sliwa gave a half-hearted apology over calling the man a migrant.

“I apologize for miss characterizing the man’s citizenship status, misunderstanding what had caused Guardian Angels to step in,” Sliwa said on X Friday. “The organization and its members would not stand by when someone has hurt a woman, while creating an unsafe situation for all.”

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Sliwa, a conservative talk radio staple, has courted controversy throughout his time in the limelight.

In 1992, he admitted to having faked several crimes years earlier, including his own kidnapping, to gain publicity and spotlight dangers in the subway system.

This week’s incident added fuel to already high tensions in New York City as officials struggle to handle an ongoing rise in migrant arrivals for more than a year.

A group of migrants attacked two NYPD officers outside a shelter in Times Square on Jan. 27, sparking outrage.

There’s also been heated debate over the city’s shelter and benefits policies for the new arrivals. A growing number of progressives have voiced concern over the prospect of anti-migrant bigotry sweeping the city.

The Guardian Angels, which Sliwa launched in the 1970s to fight rampant subway crime, have long had a tense relationship with police.

City progressives have called for the tables to be turned on the Angels, with some saying they committed a hate crime, but Sliwa rejected the suggestion Friday.

“No Guardian Angel, a majority minority organization, would ever have provoked an attack based on who someone is or where they came from,” he said. “They responded to a man intentionally being disruptive, aggressive towards film crew members, the crowd and unfortunately put his hands on a female.”

James Hardy was arrested on Thursday and hit with murder, manslaughter and other charges for shooting Thomas Washington near W. 175th St. and Macombs Road in Morris Heights, cops said.

Washington’s fiancée, Kisha Davis, was overjoyed to learn an arrest was made.

“[The detective] was like, ‘I got good news for you,'” she recalled. “He said, ‘We picked him up. We have him in custody.’ It felt like a big relief just came over me.

“I can’t stop doing this,” Davis said, pointing to a tear rolling down her face.

Washington, 44, was attending the Sept. 2 barbecue at the nearby Galileo Playground with Davis and Davis’ aunt when he was shot in the leg about 11 p.m., cops said.

“It’s crazy because it was so quiet,” she said. “We were sitting outside the park, up against the gate. He said, ‘Let’s go to the store,’ so I was like ‘OK, let’s go.’ I went to turn around and I hear like a pop like a firecracker. I turn and look and I’m like, ‘Who put off a firecracker, what the hell is going on?’ I turn around to him and he’s walking to me [holding his leg].”

“They shot me!” Washington screamed.

“I’m panicking, I’m bugging,” Davis recalled. “The wound is underneath his thigh, and now blood’s coming down the back of his leg. You smelled the gas, I thought it was firecracker powder, but it was gunpowder.”

Medics took the father of three to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he died, police said. The bullet had hit an artery and Washington bled to death.

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A person of interest was apprehended at the scene, but initially let go, cops said. It was not immediately clear how police connected the shooting to Hardy and if he was the man initially taken into custody.

A motive wasn’t immediately disclosed although Hardy admitted to being at the scene, detectives told Davis.

The annual barbecue where Washington was killed was organized to celebrate a memorial mural showing the names of people who recently died in the neighborhood, both from street violence and natural causes, friends told the Daily News at the time.

“Now they’re gonna put him on the wall,” said one woman who passed by the scene, shaking her head as she walked by.

The mural shows a stone angel on a pedestal flanked by two large gravestones in a cemetery. “Welcome To Da Road,” an inscription above the angel reads.

Several witnesses described the gathering as calm and said they did not hear gunshots or see any fights. Another friend, a 58-year-old man who gave his nickname, Shadow, said people on the block treat each other like family.

“There was nobody that was gonna have animosity towards anyone because everyone that we knew there was part of a family,” he said.

Davis didn’t recognize Hardy’s name when detectives identified him as the killer. Months after the shooting, she still didn’t know what sparked the shooting.

“I want to know why,” she said when asked what she would say if she could speak to Hardy. “We were at a memorial for people that passed away and you do that? You don’t give a f–k, period. Us being grown, they could’ve fought, and got it off his chest, and he would’ve lived to see another day.”

Hardy has a criminal record with 11 arrests. In 2001, he was sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted of assault in Manhattan, according to state prison records. He was released early in 2005 but was put back in jail for violating his parole and was ultimately freed in 2010, records show.

His arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court for the Sept. 2 shooting was pending Friday.

Washington did a stint in prison as well, but had turned his life around and was working as a dishwasher at a kitchen for a Midtown law firm when he was shot. He and Davis began dating four years ago and got engaged a year before his death.

“He didn’t have an issue with nobody. That’s why it’s so crazy to me,” Davis said. “He went to work Monday to Friday. He would leave at 5:30 a.m. in the morning, he would get off around 4, 4:30 p.m.”

Her fiancé’s death has Davis “all the way broken,” she said.

“It takes everything in me to get up in the morning and do what I have to do,” she said. “This is something that’s really gonna bother me for the rest of my life.”

Charges were pending against the 15-year-old suspect, who allegedly opened fire on a loss prevention officer at a Times Square sporting goods store but hit the tourist instead.

The suspect ran off, and fired twice at police who pursued him on foot Thursday evening through the crowded Crossroads of the World.

Police released surveillance images of the teen on Friday afternoon, and said shell casings from the .45 caliber handgun he used in the Thursday night shoplifting and shooting at JD Sports in Times Square match up with evidence of a Jan. 27 armed robbery in the Bronx and a shooting in Bryant Park on Jan. 25.

But around the time cops issued the images and announced a $13,500 award for information leading to the teen’s capture, he was in custody at a residential address in Yonkers, said police.

“Just like we promised — 24 hours later, he’s locked up and off our streets,” said Police Commissioner Edward Caban.

“He’s considered armed and dangerous,” NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said at a news conference earlier Friday.

“He had no problems firing into a crowd at the store, striking a tourist (and) not shooting at cops once, but shooting them twice.”

The shooter was with two other teenagers inside JD Sports on the corner of W. 42nd St. and Broadway around 7 p.m. Thursday when a female security guard stopped them from leaving the store with items they intended to steal, cops said. Police said the items were either a jacket or some shoes.

The guard took the items from the teens, who according to cops then moved as if they were leaving the store.

But the baby-faced shooter suddenly turned an fired a gun at the guard, said cops.

The bullet missed the security guard but struck a 38-year-old woman from Brazil who was in line to buy a pair of sneakers, said Detective Bureau Assistant Chief Jason Savino.

“I was standing right next to her,” Lone Hanson, 62, a tourist from Denmark, told the Daily News Thursday. “She was just shopping with her girlfriend. I heard a boom and she was shot.”

The woman was hit in the left leg. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.

“She was standing there saying, ‘Help, Help,’” said a witness who did not want to be named. “I took her shirt off of her and tied it to her leg.”

“I was asking her if everything was OK and she said she doesn’t speak English,” the woman added.

Meanwhle, the shooter and the other teens ran out of the store toward W. 47th St. Cops nearby grabbed one teen “without incident,” said Savino.

The teen shooter ran into a passageway that runs at sidewalk level between W. 47th and W. 48th Sts. at 1211 Sixth Ave., the home to Fox News studios, Chell said at at news conference Thursday night.

“The perpetrator goes in there, he fires one time at our officer,” Chell said. “Our officer draws his weapon but he cannot fire. There are too many people around.”

The teen kept running and fired a second shot at the officer from under his armpit, Chell said. The officer did not return fire in that situation, again because too many people were present, Chell said.

Chell said police showed “great restraint” in not returning fire at the teen shooter.

“Our uniformed officer was not struck,” Savino said. He added: “That officer was well aware of the danger that firing that gun on a crowded, busy street could potentially inflict.”

Chell said at the earlier press conference Friday: “I gotta tell you — one of those bullets hits our cop last night, it’s a whole different conversation we’re having today.”

“Let’s be clear: The stance of the city’s police department — we don’t care who you are, what your status is. We’re not going to broad brush the whole migrant community as being bad people,” said Chell.

“But we’re not going to put up with this.”

The shooter fled the scene wearing a white T-shirt and white pants.

An intense manhunt that involved collection of video images, witness interviews and ballistic evidence led to “pristine” pictures of the suspect that were made public on Friday afternoon, Savino said — and ultimately to the suspect’s arrest in Yonkers.

The teen was with his mother when he was arrested by Yonkers police and members of the U.S. Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force, said cops.

The teen lived with his family at the Stratford Arms on W. 70th St. on the Upper West Side — a 10-story building and former SRO with more than 100 units that now houses migrants.

“He’s a very calm kid who went to church with his parents,” said an Ecuadoran shelter resident who said he works as a commercial painter and did not want to give his name.

“He was never any problem. Very tranquilo,” said the Ecuadoran man. He added: “I never saw him with any other kids. I always saw him alone.”

Rodney Watkins, 55, was able to access his victims through Powerfulnailya, a skateboarding club he founded and ran, District Attorney Larry Krasner said in a news release.

On Wednesday, Watkins pleaded no contest to charges involving six victims. Pennsylvania authorities have withdrawn a seventh case against him because the alleged assault had occurred outside of the statute of limitations.

The former coach is now convicted of three counts of involuntary deviant sexual intercourse of a child, one count of aggravated indecent assault of a person younger than 14, three counts of corruption of minors, and two counts of unlawful contact with minors.

For years, Watkins was a fixture at local skate parts who would spot young talent and invite them to join his skate team, with promises of mentorship and out-of-state road trips.

The then-respected coach traveled with his young athletes to skateboarding competitions in New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Maine.

But in 2022, the skate teacher, known by his nickname “the Ancient,” was arrested and charged after two adults contacted the Philadelphia Police Special Victims Unit and told them they had been sexually assaulted by Watkins in 2011 and 2012. They were both children at the time the incidents occurred.

“He would say if I told anyone he would ruin my skateboarding career,” one of his alleged victims told police, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported at the time.

After the initial complaints, five more adults came forward to report Watkins had also assaulted them as minors.

“I want to thank Philadelphia Police SVU detectives and my office’s Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit for seeking accountability for survivors, sometimes more than a decade after they were victimized as children,” Krasner said in a statement Thursday.

He also thanked all who helped to secure Watkins’ conviction “on very serious charges while sparing survivors who came forward what would likely have been a retraumatizing trial experience.”

Watkins is scheduled to be sentenced on May 3.

The suspect, identified as Kenneth Wayne DeHart Jr., was added to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s “most wanted” list early Friday morning, hours after he opened fire on two Blount County Sheriff’s deputies during a traffic stop in Maryville. He’s wanted on suspicion of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm, the Blount County Sheriff’s Office said.

The officers pulled over an SUV on U.S. Route 411, some 16 miles south of Knoxville, just before 8:30 p.m. on Thursday. According to a press release from the TBI, DeHart “would not cooperate with deputies and refused to get out of the vehicle.”

At one during the stop, a Taser was used but to “no effect,” officials said. That’s when DeHart allegedly pulled out a gun and started shooting, fatally striking Deputy Greg McCowan. A second officer, Deputy Shelby Eggers, was wounded after returning fire, the sheriff’s office said. She was treated at a hospital and has since been released,

It’s unclear what prompted the traffic stop.

“This is the hardest thing I’ve ever done. We had an officer killed tonight,” Blount County Sheriff James Lee Berrong told reporters during an emotional news conference. “I’m so sorry that we’ve lost a young man. I talked to his family earlier. I apologized for not protecting him.”

A $60,000 reward is being offered for information leading to DeHart’s arrest. He was last seen in the county’s Wildwood area and authorities believe is traveling on foot.

Police also warned against approaching Dehart, who is considered “armed and dangerous,” according to the sheriff’s office.

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Declyn Lauper, 26, was nabbed minutes after a shooting on W. 112th St. near Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. that was reported around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, police said.

A 24-year-old man was shot in the leg and taken to Mount Sinai Morningside hospital in stable condition.

Lauper possessed a fanny pack that contained the Glock, which had seven bullets in its magazine, said a complaint filed in Manhattan Criminal Court.

The complaint says Lauper possessed the weapon “with intent to use it unlawfully against another.”

Also arrested in the gunfire was Omar Lewin, 24, of Washington Heights. Information about Lewin’s case was not immediately available.

Lauper was charged with two counts of criminal possession of a firearm, and Manhattan prosecutors sought bail of $50,000 cash or $150,000 bond.

But a criminal court judge set lower bail, at $20,000 cash and $100,000 bond.

Lauper’s family posted cash bail, and he walked out of court with his lawyer.

Lauper’s arrest was not the first for the troubled son of the ’80s pop star, who won a Tony Award for writing the music in the Broadway show “Kinky Boots.”

In July 2022, police found Lauper sitting in the driver’s seat of a stolen car, the Daily News reported at the time.

Cops noticed the illegally double-parked 2014 Mercedes-Benz C350 at the corner of W. 140th St. and Broadway in Hamilton Heights. They determined the vehicle was stolen, police said.

Lauper was charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle in that incident.

Lauper, who raps under the name Dex Lauper, lives on the Upper West Side. He is the only child of Cyndi Lauper.

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The shooter was with two other teens inside JD Sports on the corner of W. 42nd St. and Broadway when security started eyeing him around 7 p.m., a store employee told the Daily News.

When the trio tried to leave the store, a guard stopped them at the door. One of the teenagers walked outside, but two stayed.

As the guard talked to the duo, she took a shopping bag one of them was holding. Inside was a coat the teens were trying to steal.

“He was trying to steal and [security] were trailing him,” said JD Sports employee Hewitt Jackson. “They tried to take the bag from him and he pulled a gun and tried to shoot a security guard.”

The security guard ducked and the bullet hit a woman shopping nearby, according to a Danish tourist.

“I was standing right next to her,” Lone Hanson, 62, told The News. “She was just shopping with her girlfriend. I heard a boom and she was shot.

“I couldn’t believe it,” Hanson added. “It’s my first day in New York.”

The woman suffered a gunshot wound to the left leg. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.

“She was standing there saying, ‘Help, Help,’” said a witness who did not want to be named. “I took her shirt off of her and tied it to her leg.”

“I was asking her if everything was OK and she said she doesn’t speak English,” the woman added. “She was from Brazil.

Staffers at the store ushered shoppers, including the wounded woman, into the back room while police rushed to the scene.

“I was shocked,” said the witness. “People were running and I started to panic.”

The gunman ran outside, where he met an accomplice who had walked out of the store before the shooting. Also outside was a police officer who ran after the robbers but began to have trouble breathing during the chase.

He was rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell in stable condition, the sources added.

At some point during the chase, one of them fired shots at officers but struck no one, police sources said.

The teens continued running north, leaving behind a trail of clothes at W. 48th St. and Sixth Ave. to W. 51st and Sixth Ave., police sources said.

Cops are still searching for them.