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  • Two stabbed during West Indian Day Parade

    09/04/2017 6:51:18 PM PDT · by GuavaCheesePuff · 13 replies
    New York Post ^ | September 4, 2017 | Shawn Cohen and Khristina Narizhnaya
    A teenager with his mom was stabbed, and another man slashed, in separate incidents Monday afternoon during the annual West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn, cops said. The first victim, 19, was at 277 Eastern Parkway near Franklin Avenue along the parade route with his mother when he was stabbed at around 3:35 p.m., according to police.
  • After aide shot, New York governor urges national gun control

    09/08/2015 11:16:53 AM PDT · by PROCON · 60 replies
    reuters ^ | Sep. 8, 2015 | Barbara Goldberg
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A day after one of his top aides was critically wounded by a stray bullet, Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday called for a national gun control policy, saying that New York's tough firearms laws are ineffective if they stand alone. Police sought suspects in the shooting of Carey Gabay, 43, believed to be an unintended target who was struck in the head at an outdoor celebration on Monday before the West Indian Day parade in Brooklyn, a spokeswoman for the New York Police Department said. Gabay, the first deputy counsel at Empire State Development, the state's...