New York Murders

TRAGEDY: Man Shot And Killed While Attending Vigil For Childhood Friend

Posted 04.27.2012

Tragedy struck the Bronx on Wednesday night, as a 22-year old man was shot and killed while attending a vigil held for his childhood friend Michael Ik...

Man Dismembers Roommate After Fistfight

Posted 04.05.2012

A 50-year old Brooklyn man admitted to police authorities he had murdered his 55-year old roommate in a fistfight during a party that occurred on Marc...

Handyman Convicted Of Murdering Cleaner And Stuffing Body In Air Duct

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 04.02.2012

NEW YORK — A handyman was convicted Monday of suffocating a cleaning woman and stuffing her body in an air-conditioning duct in an office tower ...

Barbara Sheehan NOT Guilty Of Husband's Murder

Posted 12.06.2011

The Queens woman who fatally shot her husband, a retired NYPD officer, in July 2008 was found not guilty of second-degree murder Thursday afternoon. ...

Do Memorial Day Murders Signal A Bloody Summer For NYC?

Posted 07.31.2011

Claudia Milan was shot in the face on Sunday while holding the hand of her two year-old son in the Bronx. She joined an unfortunate tally of those...

New York City Murder Rate On Pace For Big Spike

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — New York City could see a double-digit increase in the murder rate by the end of the year. The latest numbers provided to The Associ...

Homicides DOWN In Chicago, New York, Los Angeles

USA Today | Posted 05.25.2011

When Washington debates whether America is safe, the focus now is usually on the increasing threat of terrorism -- not violent crime. hat has large...

Spike In Murder, Commissioner Kelly Shifts Commanding Officers

nydailynews.com | By Rocco Parascandola and Joe Kemp | Posted 05.25.2011

NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly sent out a memo Friday, announcing 40 high-level departmental transfers - shifting commanding officers in dozens of un...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Haas

Len Levitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Len Levitt

Is NYPD Captain Ronald Haas an asset or liability to the Manhattan District Attorney's detective squad? That's a question the newly elected District Attorney Cyrus Vance may soon be asking.

NYPD Stats: City Murder Rate Up 23% In 2010

nydailynews.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Murders are up sharply in the city this year, with startling increases in gunplay across the five boroughs, a Daily News study of NYPD statistics show...

New York Murder Rate Hits All-Time Low

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — New York City finished the year with the fewest murders since comparable record keeping began. The city's police department says the...

Chicago Murder Rate Tops New York And Los Angeles

Chicago Sun-Times | Frank Main and Annie Sweeney | Posted 01.23.2012

As police Supt. Jody Weis returns to the hot seat during a City Council budget hearing today, Chicago is outpacing New York and Los Angeles in 2008 mu...