Author: Jehangir Irani (Jehangir Irani)

Four members of the Shomrim neighborhood patrol were were shot and wounded in Borough Park by David Flores, who they allege was fondling himself in front of children. The patrol ultimately disarmed him and all five people involved were taken to Lutheran Medical Center.

Carlota Brett-Pierce, 30, was charged with second-degree assault, among other charges, in connection with the death of her 4-year-old, 15-pound daughter. Judge Leonard P. Rienzi ordered her held on $300,000 bail.

Friends and family mourned the death of Jorge Martinez, a bread delivery man, gunned down by a sniper in Gravesend. Cops believe that someone was test firing a gun from a rooftop, and after shooting at stationary targets, they trained it on Martinez’s van.

The body of eleven-year-old Briana Ojeda was brought to the St. Xavier church by a white horse-drawn carriage. Ojeda’s mother alleges that officer Alfonso Mendez not only prevented her from taking the child to the hospital, but that he also refused to perform CPR.

Four-year-old Marchella Pierce, who weighed only 15 pounds, was found dead on Thursday morning, after the child’s mother called police to say she was unresponsive. Detectives are investigating the cause of death.

The Metropolitan Jewish Geriatric Center, a non-profit institution, is being sold to the Boro Park Operating Company and the Boro Park Land Company for $60 million. The new owners have informed the city that they plan to cut 506 jobs after the sale is complete.

In comments made to WFAN, on Wednesday, Backman hinted that he might be in line to manage the team he won the 1986 World Series with.

Ladwan Brown, 33, died after being shot in the head during a home invasion. A second, unidentified, person in the house was bound and stuffed in a closet, but escaped after chewing through her duct tape.

After an argument began between two men on a Manhattan-bound 4 train, one of them pulled out a knife and stabbed the other, as the train pulled into the Utica Avenue station. The assailant also clubbed the victim with a hammer, after stabbing him.