Metro Reporter

Thomas Tracy

Born and bred in Brooklyn, crime reporter Thomas Tracy has been covering the NYPD for more than a decade. He joined the Daily News in January 2013.

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.

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Guardian Angel files harassment complaint against man Curtis Sliwa called ‘migrant’

February 9, 2024 at 6:26 p.m.

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...

A 911 call led NYPD officers to find the victim shot in the right leg on the corner of W. 175th St. and Macombs Road in Morris Heights just before 11 p.m. on September 2, 2023. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

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Ex-con busted in fatal shooting at Bronx event held to honor neighborhood dead

February 9, 2024 at 9:50 p.m.

A 42-year-old ex-con wanted for a five-month-old fatal shooting at a Bronx barbecue honoring neighborhood friends who had recently died was grabbed by police trying to flee the country into...

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...

Declyn Lauper, 26, the only son of famed '80s-era pop star Cyndi Lauper, was nabbed minutes after a shooting in Harlem.

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Cyndi Lauper’s son free on bail in weapons possession case linked to Harlem shooting

February 9, 2024 at 6:09 p.m.

Declyn Lauper, 26, the only son of famed '80s-era pop star Cyndi Lauper, was nabbed minutes after a shooting in Harlem.

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Man shot over spilled drink at Manhattan restaurant: cops

February 8, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

Antony Battle, 46, was arrested Wednesday for the bizarre Jan. 27 shooting at Luxor New York Restaurant in Inwood, police said.

A Queens scooter shop was found to contain dozens of potentially dangerous "Frankenstein lithium-ion batteries" which officials believe were on the verge of exploding, authorities said. (FDNY)

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FDNY shuts down Queens scooter battery factory; lithium-ion cells began igniting during city inspection

February 8, 2024 at 5:48 p.m.

Several lithium-ion batteries were hosed down as they began to ignite during a city inspection, said FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh.

Curtis Sliwa live on "Hannity" claimed his group was attacking a migrant who just committed a crime. Authorities, however, say this wasn't true. (Fox News)

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Video contradicts Curtis Sliwa account of Guardian Angels ‘migrant’ beating: NYPD source

February 9, 2024 at 2:09 p.m.

Surveillance footage of the Guardian Angels' shocking takedown of a man in Times Square shows he was just trying to maneuver through the crowd when the vigilantes confronted him, a...