Police & Fire News – Bronx Times

Javits Frimpong was found with a single gunshot wound to his stomach near Crotona Park on Thursday. He was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital.

Civil rights lawyer Ben Crump to represent the family of Javits Frimpong, teen shot and killed on way to school

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The widow and friends of an NYPD Sergeant shot to death on a Bronx street spoke on Wednesday about life ten years after his murder.

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Death of a hero: Friends and family remember slain NYPD sergeant 10 years after his murder in the Bronx

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Bronx murder-suicide: Man allegedly says ‘it’s over for’ girlfriend before shooting her, then himself, dead, cops say

Javits Frimpong was found with a single gunshot wound to his stomach near Crotona Park on Thursday. He was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital.

Bronx mourns Javits Frimpong, Ghanaian teen killed on way to school

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scene in Bronx of police-involved shooting

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Police shoot armed man in the Bronx after he fires at them in wild daylight gun fight

Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks at a street-safety news conference at City Hall on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026.

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Mother of slain Bronx boy granted visa from President Trump, says Mamdani

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Bronx fire caused by lithium-ion battery leaves boy dead and family critical

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EXCLUSIVE | Bronx woman speaks out after being brutally robbed and beaten by motorcycle-riding thieves while waiting for bus

suspect in Bronx rape case

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Bronx suspect wanted for rape, robbery of woman during rendezvous in home

FILE PHOTO: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visits Fishkill Farms in Dutchess County on Oct. 6, 2026, alongside Gov. Kathy Hochul and Rep. Pat Ryan for a discussion with local farmers and businesses about the impacts of hyperscale data centers.

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AOC latest NY lawmaker to receive envelope with suspicious white powder amid nationwide investigation

Detectives in the Bronx are on the hunt for a suspect who bashed a man with a glass bottle and beat him up outside a bodega earlier this month.

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Bronx brute who bashed man with glass bottle and beat him up at bodega still at large: cops

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EXCLUSIVE: Mamdani expands gun violence prevention program in Bushwick, Harlem and Washington Heights

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Mamdani replaces four members of NYPD civilian watchdog board amid broader accountability push

crime scene tape after incident in Bronx

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Senior in Bronx shoots 70-year-old girlfriend and 60-year-old man in bloody end to apparent love triangle: sources

Police outside the East Fordham Road office of U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres on Oct. 16, 2026, after aides were exposed to a suspicious powder sent through the mail.

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Suspicious powder sent to Rep. Ritchie Torres’ Bronx office in latest mail scare targeting New York Democratic pols

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