Masked male caught on video allegedly trying to kidnap 6-year-old boy while victim holds his father's hand on sidewalk



A masked male was caught on video allegedly trying to kidnap a 6-year-old boy while the victim was holding his father's hand on a sidewalk in Brooklyn over the weekend.

WABC-TV reported that the 28-year-old male was seen on surveillance videos yanking the boy so hard while he held on to his father's hand that the victim's feet came off the ground — but the the dad and son continued to hold hands tight.

'I don't think it was a hate crime, but it was scary.'

The father is seen on the clip quickly turning around and shoving the culprit, and the incident appears to end at that point.

You can view a video report here about the incident, which includes a pair of surveillance clips showing the suspect grabbing the child.

The incident occurred in front of multiple cameras on a block of Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights around 3:30 p.m. Saturday while the father and son were on their way to a Sabbath gathering, WABC said.

Incredibly, the boy's mother told the station that the suspect is actually their neighbor.

What's more, the couple noted to WABC that they've seen the suspect before and said he's never said or done anything unusual.

"He'd always hold the door, he always was nice," the mother added to the station.

The mother also told WABC she's heard from neighbors that something else was going on with the suspect, and he'd had a bad day.

She added to the station that while members of the Jewish community in the neighborhood already are on edge with a citywide increase in anti-Semitic incidents since October 7 of last year, the mother doesn't believe it was a hate crime.

"I don't think it was a hate crime, but it was scary," she told WABC. "It was like a scary incident. When you live in New York, you don't expect someone to attack a six-year-old and take him away from his parents."

The mother noted to the station that she's proud of her husband and son for the way they held on to each other and didn't let go.

She added to WABC that her boy will be getting therapy, and her family is hoping justice is served in court.

The station said Stephen Sowe is charged with attempted kidnapping, harassment, and endangering the welfare of a child.

Anything else?

In mid-October, a male was charged with a hate crime after he allegedly hollered, “I’m gonna kill you f***ing Jews!" during Yom Kippur in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. Police said Muhammad Hashim's alleged outburst was directed at a 43-year-old man in Borough Park, according to the New York Post.

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'I’m gonna kill you f***ing Jews': Male charged with hate crime after alleged anti-Semitic outburst during Yom Kippur in NYC



A male was charged with a hate crime after he allegedly hollered, “I’m gonna kill you f***ing Jews!" during Yom Kippur in a predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, the New York Post reported.

Police said Muhammad Hashim's alleged outburst was directed at a 43-year-old man in Borough Park, the Post said. Yom Kippur — the holiest holiday on the Jewish calendar — commenced Friday at sundown and ended Saturday at nightfall.

Hashim was released on his own recognizance because the leading count of reckless endangerment isn't bail-eligible, the paper said.

Hashim, 31, also allegedly drove on a sidewalk during the incident, police told the paper.

Video allegedly shows the suspect yelling from a vehicle; the clip also contains photographs of the suspect being placed under arrest.

"On Yom Kippur night, Muhammad Qasim, 31, allegedly attempted a ramming attack in Borough Park, shouting anti-Jewish slurs and targeting a pedestrian with his vehicle," Shmira Public Safety, a Jewish neighborhood patrol group, wrote in the video's caption.

Hashim of Borough Park was charged with reckless endangerment as a hate crime, second-degree reckless endangerment, aggravated harassment based on religion or race, and criminal possession of a weapon, the Post said, citing the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.

The suspect also was charged with false personation for allegedly providing police with incorrect information about himself during the arrest, the paper said.

Shmira Public Safety told the Post that Shmira members initially arrived at the scene and took photos and videos of the vehicle Hashim was in. Hashim apparently departed from the scene but returned a short time later, after which Shmira members followed him and contacted the NYPD, the paper said. Officers later arrested Hashim around 12:20 a.m. Saturday at the corner of New Utrecht Avenue and 50th Street, the Post reported.

Hashim was released on his own recognizance because the leading count of reckless endangerment isn't bail-eligible, the paper said. An attorney listed for Hashim couldn't be reached for comment Monday, the Post noted.

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Antisemitic incidents have exploded in the Big Apple following Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which led the Jewish state to launch an ongoing military campaign in Gaza.

The NYPD released data last week that indicated there were 117 more antisemitic acts reported this year, compared to the same time last year.

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Shots ring out on NYC street corner near group of elderly residents; 84-year-old woman wounded while sitting in walker



An old woman is recovering in the hospital after multiple individuals reportedly opened fire on a street corner in New York City where a group of elderly people had gathered.

Around 6:45 p.m. on Monday, residents living near the intersection of Foster and Brooklyn Avenues in Brooklyn reported hearing a dozen or more shots coming from outside. One witness ran out and saw "about four old ladies and one gentleman" desperately trying to escape the area, yelling, "They’re shooting! They’re shooting!"

'Two groups' may have been shooting at one another.

"They were in shock," one man later said of the elderly group.

Sadly, an 84-year-old woman who had been sitting in her walker had been struck in the left arm by a stray bullet. One of the witnesses took off his shirt to bind up her wound as they waited for EMTs to arrive. The woman also called her family to tell them what had happened.

Another witness claimed she kept a good sense of humor throughout the ordeal. "She was saying [to her family members], 'If you had been here, they’d have shot you, too!'" he recalled.

The woman was taken to Kings County Hospital for treatment. She is expected to survive, and her condition has been listed as stable. Her name has not been released.

Officers with the NYPD have not yet identified any suspects in the case, but they did claim that the 84-year-old woman was not the intended target of the shooting. If they have determined a motive for the shooting, they have not yet shared it publicly.

WABC reported that "two groups" may have been shooting at one another. As many as 20 shell casings were recovered from the scene.

Witnesses claimed they saw "several individuals ... running from the intersection" immediately following the shooting, PIX11 reported.

So far this year, there have been 14 total shootings and 15 people shot in this precinct alone.

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AirTag provides clues as woman finally reunites with missing 12-year-old sister



A Brooklyn preteen has been found safe days after running away from home, thanks in small part to an Apple AirTag attached to her keys.

On the afternoon of April 9, Eliana Perozo monitored the AirTag on the keychain of younger sister Victorious "Tori" Perozo. According to the AirTag activity, 12-year-old Tori left the Baccalaureate School for Global Education in Queens at the appropriate time and hopped on the correct subway train to return to her home in Prospect Lefferts Gardens in Brooklyn.

However, Eliana, Tori's legal guardian, began to worry when the AirTag indicated Tori took a surprise turn and started heading in the wrong direction. "Once she hit the city, I saw her AirTag go up towards the Bronx instead of down towards Brooklyn," Eliana previously stated. "That’s when I knew that she was at least going somewhere she wasn’t supposed to be going."

Eliana then alerted a friend that Tori had gone missing, and the two women began tracking the movements indicated on the AirTag. The last location where the AirTag pinged was an apartment near St. Ann's Ave and 134th St. in the Bronx, nearly 15 miles north of Eliana and Tori's neighborhood. Unfortunately, the ping turned out to be a dead end as a man living in the apartment had found the AirTag on the street and brought it home with him. He never saw Tori, he claimed.

For days, Eliana, her friend, and nearly 30 others continued to search. Eliana had become Tori's legal guardian because their mother has been chronically absent in their lives. According to Eliana, their mother has not made contact with her daughters in at least two months.

The night before Tori went missing, Eliana had caught Tori texting an older boy and swapped out the girl's smartphone for a flip phone, a punishment that seemed to anger Tori. While Tori remained missing, she never once answered her phone.

"I think she’s a 12-year-old who survived a lot of loss," Eliana explained to reporters at the time. "And there’s so much support and mental health services and people that love her and support her — but I feel that’s not the case in her 12-year-old mind, so she ran away."

Luckily, dogged detectives with the NYPD spotted Tori on surveillance footage at a subway station in the East Village. The timestamp on the surveillance footage when Tori appeared was about 5:45 a.m. on Thursday, but police didn't see her on the footage until sometime on Friday.

When officers finally found the girl is unclear, but she was reunited with Eliana on Sunday — five days after she first ran away.

The New York Post reached out to Eliana for comment after Tori was found but did not receive a response.

"She’s a really great kid," Eliana said previously.

"I don’t want this moment to be a defining moment in her life."

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Another woman punched in NYC, suffers broken jaw; suspect reportedly released without bail despite 7 prior assault arrests



In the wake of a Blaze News report about multiple women saying they were randomly punched in the face and head on New York City streets this month, another woman has come forward saying she also was punched in an unprovoked attack.

What's more, there's video of the brutal punch, the victim suffered a broken jaw — which is now wired shut — and the suspect reportedly was released without bail despite seven prior assault arrests.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

Oh, and one of those priors reportedly was an attack on a cop.

What are the details?

Dulce Pichardo, 57, spoke to WABC-TV after a male randomly punched her in the face around 5 p.m. Tuesday while she was walking down Grand Avenue near Dean Street in Brooklyn.

“He just punched me on the right side here, very strong,” Pichardo told WPIX-TV, adding, “I was surprised. I said, ‘What’s going on? Why did you hit me? Why did you do it?’ I didn’t do anything. No reason to hit me."

Image source: WABC-TV video screenshot

She told WPIX her attacker never said a word.

Pichardo suffered a broken jaw, WPIX said.

Image source: WABC-TV video screenshot

WABC reported that her face was fractured in several places, her mouth is now wired shut, and she will need to drink food from a straw for six weeks.

Image source: WABC-TV video screenshot

In addition, WABC said Pichardo sustained permanent damage to her lower lip, three of her teeth were knocked out, and she may need surgery.

WABC said Pichardo is a school bus aide and was returning from work — just steps from home — when the attacker punched her.

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Her brother owns a restaurant across the street from where she lives. He and an employee chased the suspect down.

Yohan Flores says the suspect was standing cold and emotionless when they confronted him. The suspect denied attacking Pichardo.

Pichardo's brother and the employee followed the suspect for several blocks and stopped him from fleeing until police arrived.

Suspect arrested

Officers arrested a suspect identified as 33-year-old Franz Jeudy, WABC said.

Jeudy was charged with third-degree assault — a misdemeanor, which means he's not bail-eligible — and he was released, the New York Post reported.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

Jeudy was arrested seven previous times on assault charges, WABC said.

The Post, citing police, said one of those priors took place in 2018 when he was charged with second-degree assault for an attack on a cop.

"Every time I see a man, I cross," Pichardo added to WABC. "I'm not going to be close to nobody. I'm very afraid. I tell my son where I'm going, I want you to walk with me."

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'Babies on here': Man shot in the head with his own gun during brutal daytime battle on crowded NYC train



New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) recently deployed 750 National Guardsmen and 250 additional officers from state-controlled law enforcement agencies to help curb crime on New York City's sprawling subway system. The presence of soldiers was evidently not enough of a deterrent Thursday to prevent a bloodletting on a busy train in Brooklyn.

A fight caught on tape broke out on a northbound A Train in Brooklyn that left one man riddled with bullets and a crowd full of commuters cowering in fear.

NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper indicated during a briefing that shortly after a 32-year-old man entered a crowded train around 4:45 p.m., a 36-year-old man confronted him.

The older male was described by multiple witnesses as being "aggressive and provocative towards the 32-year-old that just got on."

Footage of the incident appears to show a black male in a yellow baseball cap mutter to himself, then walk over to the younger man, threatening to beat him up. At one point, the apparent instigator states, "You think you're gonna beat up cops?"

Someone off camera can be heard saying, "He thinks you're a migrant. He thinks you're an immigrant."

"F*** your kind. F*** your race. F*** you," said the instigator.

The younger man stands up to face his apparent aggressor and squares off for a fight, prompting nearby riders to begin pressing toward the far side of the train.

"There's babies on here," one woman can be heard yelling as the men begin to circle a post with their fists at the ready.

After a brief exchange of blows, the instigator takes the advantage, pinning the 32-year-old against a seat.

A masked woman who was previously standing beside the 32-year-old appears to dig into her purse, then stab the instigator repeatedly in the back.

The instigator looks over at the woman and shouts, "Did you stab me?"

"I didn't do nothing," the masked woman responds.

A bystander attempts to de-escalate and separate the two fighters, but the instigator, whose lower back is bleeding, continues accusing the woman of stabbing him.

"It became physical again and at some point the 36-year-old removed a firearm from his jacket," said Kemper. "He then took that firearm, started walking toward the 32-year-old who was on the train, yelling at him, walking toward him in a menacing way, and it became physical again between the two."

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During this final physical confrontation, the young man managed to get a hold on the gun and allegedly fired multiple shots. Kemper indicated the firearm used in the scuffle was a "small semi-automatic, maybe a .32 or a .25."

As melee unfolded, the train pulled into Hoyt-Schermerhorn Streets station, where multiple police officers heard the shots, then rushed into action.

The 36-year-old man was taken to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in critical condition. The 32-year-old man was in custody as of Thursday night.

Footage taken after shooting shows commuters taking cover and police on the scene with guns drawn.

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Forbes indicated that crime on the transit system increased 13.1% between January and March as compared with the same period last year. There were 388 incidents between Jan. 1 and March 3, the majority of which were grand larceny and felony assault.

On March 3, a teenage girl was brutally attacked at the 168th Street Station and a 64-year-old man was kicked onto the subway tracks at Penn Station. Days earlier, Spectrum News reported a man was randomly slashed with a box cutter near Penn Station.

Richard Henderson, a 45-year-old crossing guard and father of three, was gunned down in January after trying to break up a fight on the subway in Brownsville.

Last month, Obed Beltran-Sanchez, a 35-year-old man with no permanent address, was slain and several others were injured in a rush-hour shooting resulting from a dispute between two groups of teenage thugs at the Mount Eden Avenue subway station.

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NYC Amazon driver: 'Cops arrested me after I defended myself from 'pervert' migrant running at me, trying to steal from my van'



An Amazon delivery driver in New York City said police arrested him after he defended himself from a "pervert" migrant who first tried to steal from his van and then ran aggressively toward him, the New York Post reported.

What are the details?

Police sources said Yeison Sanchez, 26, was allegedly visibly drunk and holding a beer bottle when the Amazon driver said he caught him trying to take packages he was delivering in Brooklyn around 4:45 p.m. Sunday, the paper said.

The driver, who asked the Post to identify him only as Abu, told the paper Monday he noticed "a guy — he was like a pervert, he had his penis out."

“He’s in the corner of the street [masturbating], and I told him, ‘Hey, what are you doing?’” Abu added to the Post. “And he went into my van where all my mail and everything was at, and I pushed him away, and he ran toward me like he was going to aggressively hit me.”

Abu told the paper he picked up a piece of ice from the ground and "socked him with it" after which the male "went down on his butt.”

“I really had to protect myself," Abu added to the Post.

Abu recounted to the paper that his attempt to get nearby police officers to help him backfired badly: “[Sanchez] was telling [the cops] in Spanish that I punched him in the face. I told them there’s cameras around, you can probably find something. They said there were no cameras. After a while it turned into a ‘he said, she said’ thing, and that’s how it went.”

Wheels of justice going flat?

The Post, citing police and sources, said Sanchez — who lives at a shelter on Hall Street just blocks away from the scene of the incident — was charged with petit larceny and public lewdness.

Oh, and he was released without bail Monday, the paper added.

Abu, however, was charged with third-degree assault and released on a desk appearance ticket, the Post said, citing police. Fox News said the NYPD confirmed the charge against the Amazon worker.

“He was trying to aggressively hurt me, and I just protected myself and my property from my job,” Abu added to the paper Monday. “That’s it. I ended up being taken in, and now I have an open case about this. It’s ridiculous because I asked the cops for help. I ran to the cops and said, ‘Hey, can you please get this guy? I don’t want to hurt him. I already hit him with a snowball, and he was pretty hurt.’”

Abu also noted to the Post that he didn’t want to use his hands to “do him damage,” which is why he asked police for help.

“I didn’t want to lose my job. I did things the right way, by the books, and I wound up going to jail,” Abu added to the paper.

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New York City boots students from their classrooms to house migrants, forcing students to undergo more 'remote learning'



An open border and a closed school building.

That's the reality playing out for the roughly 3,800 students who attend James Madison High School in Brooklyn. On Wednesday, those students are "attending" classes remotely because city officials booted them from their actual classrooms to house migrants.

On Tuesday, city officials announced that nearly 2,000 migrants being housed in tents at historic Floyd Bennett Field would be temporarily relocated to James Madison High School ahead of a powerful winter storm that brought heavy rain and high winds to New York City.

City Hall said in a statement:

The health and safety of migrants in our care is always a top priority, which is why we are currently overseeing the relocation of 1,900 guests from the humanitarian emergency response and relief center at Floyd Bennett Field due to an updated forecast with increased wind speeds estimated to be at over 70 MPH tonight.

To be clear, this relocation is a proactive measure being taken out of an abundance of caution to ensure the safety and well-being of individuals working and living at the center.

The migrants were officially relocated Tuesday evening when after-school activities had concluded.

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While moving the migrants was a necessary decision for their protection, parents are upset that local officials chose to disrupt the learning environment rather than find a more suitable solution to the problem.

Indeed, Councilwoman Inna Vernikov (R) said the need to move the migrants was "entirely foreseeable."

"This is both unacceptable and was entirely foreseeable, as Floyd Bennett Field is vulnerable to all forms of increment [sic] weather conditions and is not a sustainable housing facility," Vernikov said in a statement. "As an elected official representing this community, I demand a full stop to using our public schools as a shelter ever again."

Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R) agreed.

"I warned the administration that something like this would happen from day one and they refused to listen," she told the New York Post. "Floyd Bennett Field is entirely unsuitable for a tent complex, and how we are wasting taxpayer dollars to evacuate nearly 2,000 people."

"This did not take a fortune teller to predict," she said. "It was common sense."

The migrants returned to their temporary tent shelter at Floyd Bennett Field early Wednesday morning, according to the New York Daily News. That means students should return to their classrooms on Thursday.

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