Aug. 30, 2024 By Bill Parry Police from the 101st Precinct in Far Rockaway are still looking for a gunman who shot and wounded two men in the parking lot of the Beach Channel Shopping Center near Bayswater Park more than three weeks ago. The shooting incident occurred on the night of Monday, Aug.…
Aug. 29, 2024 By Bill Parry A Rockaway Beach man faces a potential life sentence after a Queens grand jury indicted him on charges of first-degree attempted murder for allegedly shooting at NYPD officers in Edgemere following a night of heavy drinking. Joel Kelly, 60, of Beach 92nd St., was arraigned Wednesday in Queens…
Aug. 1, 2024 By Bill Parry A Rockaway Beach man could spend the rest of his life in prison for shooting at cops at the Ocean Bay Apartments in Edgemere during the early morning of Saturday, July 27, following a night of heavy drinking. Joel Kelly, 60, of Beach 92nd Street, was arraigned in…
Jun. 4, 2024 By Bill Parry A Venezuelan migrant is expected to be arraigned Wednesday morning for his alleged involvement in a shootout with police in East Elmhurst during the early morning hours of Monday, June 3. He will be criminally charged from his hospital bed at New York-Presbyterian where he is currently recovering from…
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May. 30, 2024 By Bill Parry
There is a manhunt underway in the Rockaways for a pair of gunmen who shot and wounded two teenagers on a basketball court at the Ocean Bay apartments in Bayswater on Wednesday afternoon.
May. 7, 2024 By Bill Parry
The Woodside man who is accused in the fatal shooting of NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller was indicted by a Queens grand jury and arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on Tuesday morning.
Apr. 16, 2024 By Bill Parry
The driver involved in the fatal shooting of NYPD Detective Jonathan Diller in Far Rockaway last month was indicted on weapons charges, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Tuesday.
Mar. 4, 2024 By Bill Parry
A Far Rockaway man was sentenced to 25-years-to-life in prison in Queens Supreme Court on Monday for gunning down a neighbor at point-blank range in August 2020.
Feb. 15, 2024 By Bill Parry
The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI) on Tuesday launched a probe into the fatal shooting of an Edgemere man on Monday, Feb. 12 following an encounter with the NYPD.
Dec. 8, 2023 By Bill Parry A teenager was shot and wounded in the Rockaways last month and the NYPD is still looking for the two gunmen who remain at large after they were captured on video surveillance firing their handguns. Police from the 101st Precinct in Far Rockaway reported that at around 8:45 p.m. on the night of Sunday, Nov. 19, two young men were walking through a courtyard at the Ocean Bay apartments in Bayswater when they pulled out firearms and began shooting. A 15-year-old boy was struck in his left shoulder while the gunmen ran off westbound…
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