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Kerry Burke is an award-winning news reporter for the NY Daily News. Raised in Boston, he has given his adult life to New York, breaking stories in every corner of the city. He lives in Harlem.

Police on Friday busted a teen immigrant from Venezuela suspected of shooting a tourist and firing at police as he escaped arrest for shoplifting at a Times Square sporting goods store, law enforcement sources told the Daily News.

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Teen Times Square shooting suspect busted in Yonkers in intense NYPD-led manhunt

February 9, 2024 at 8:05 p.m.

Police on Friday busted a teen immigrant from Venezuela suspected of shooting a tourist and firing at police as he escaped arrest for shoplifting at a Times Square sporting goods...

Police respond after a woman was shot inside the JD Sports store on Broadway and 41st Street in Times Square on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily News)

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Tourist shot at Times Square clothing store during robbery gone wrong

February 9, 2024 at 8:00 a.m.

The chaos erupted inside JD Sports on the corner of W. 42nd St. and Broadway when security started eyeing him, a store employee said.

Hotel staff found the woman, 38, unconscious with trauma to her face at the SoHo 54 Hotel on Watts St. The city ME will determine how she died.

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NYPD suspects murder in woman’s SoHo hotel room death, say police sources

February 8, 2024 at 7:50 p.m.

Hotel staff found the woman, 38, unconscious with trauma to her face at the SoHo 54 Hotel on Watts St. The city ME will determine how she died.

“She was taking food to an elderly friend so she would have company,” the victim's grieving husband told the Daily News.

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East Village anti-war activist fatally struck by tow truck driver

February 8, 2024 at 4:37 p.m.

“She was taking food to an elderly friend so she would have company,” the victim's grieving husband told the Daily News.

The 67-year-old woman was crossing E. 10th St. at Avenue C when the driver struck her around 7:05 p.m. Monday, police said.

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Woman crossing NYC street fatally struck by tow truck driver

February 5, 2024 at 9:41 p.m.

The 67-year-old woman was crossing E. 10th St. at Avenue C when the driver struck her around 7:05 p.m. Monday, police said.

Cops have busted alleged members of a crime ring that pulled off a multi-borough robbery streak in which dozens of cell phones were snatched out of unsuspecting New Yorkers' hands, NYPD brass and Mayor Adams announced.

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NYPD busts robbery ring with suspects including migrants

February 5, 2024 at 9:54 p.m.

Cops have busted alleged members of a crime ring that pulled off a multi-borough robbery streak in which dozens of cell phones were snatched out of unsuspecting New Yorkers' hands,...

A 33-year-old man died when a floor collapsed at Borough Park, Brooklyn construction site that had no NYC Building Department permits.

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Worker killed in Brooklyn construction collapse; Borough Park project had no city permits

February 2, 2024 at 10:59 p.m.

A 33-year-old man died when a floor collapsed at Borough Park, Brooklyn construction site that had no NYC Building Department permits.

A driver has been arrested for slamming into an 89-year-old man crossing an Upper West Side street, who clung to life for nearly a month before dying, police said Thursday.

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Driver arrested for Upper West Side crash that killed elderly pedestrian

February 1, 2024 at 10:58 p.m.

A driver has been arrested for slamming into an 89-year-old man crossing an Upper West Side street, who clung to life for nearly a month before dying, police said Thursday.

Two NYPD officers and a lieutenant from the NYPD’s Midtown South Precinct were attacked by a group of men outside a migrant shelter on W. 42nd St. near Seventh Ave. on Jan. 27, 2024. (NYPD)

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Migrants take bus to California after arrest for beating NYPD cops outside Times Square shelter: sources

February 1, 2024 at 7:12 p.m.

Four of the men freed after allegedly pummeling NYPD cops outside a Times Square shelter have hit the road for California — using fake names to get the tickets —...

Yohenry Brito, 24, was the man the officers were seen attempting to place under arrest on Saturday night — but he resisted by swinging his arms and tensing up, bringing him and a lieutenant to the ground — according to prosecutors.

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Migrant accused of fighting NYPD cops held on bail, unlike five other suspects

February 1, 2024 at 7:56 p.m.

Yohenry Brito, 24, was the man the officers were seen attempting to place under arrest on Saturday night — but he resisted by swinging his arms and tensing up, bringing...

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