Author: jjr2143 (Nate Rawlings)

Romel Sucuzhanay, brother of the victim, took the stand after lunch. Romel was walking home from a bar with Jose in December 2008 when, according to prosecution witnesses, Keith Phoenix and Hakim Scott attacked the brothers. The Ink’s Amanda Massa reports that Romel took the stand a little before 2:30 p.m. In an emotional testimony,...

The third day of the Jose Sucuzhanay trial has completed the morning session. A crime scene detective testified about evidence collected from the murder scene. Photographs entered into evidence included a picture of a bloody shirt on the street and shards of broken glass on the sidewalk. Prosecutors also introduced phone records for the two...

The Ink has been following Daniel Goldstein’s decision to accept $3 million to move out of his apartment, making way for the Atlantic Yards project to begin construction. Brooklynites throughout the borough have been weighing in on Godstein’s decision. Readers of the Times’s Cityroom blog generally support Goldstein and congratulate him for holding out until...

Police arrested two men in connection with a January murder of a Brooklyn man in Queens. On January 9, 2010, police responded to reports of a man shot in a car near Roosevelt Island. Police found Jaroslaw Bielawski, 62, of Greenpoint, shot in his car on 11th street; he was pronounced dead at Cornell Medical...

Robert Morales, the convicted murderer who allegedly shot his parole officer last night, said to police, “I’m just sorry he’s not dead. He deserved it. He’s an asshole.” Morales was convicted of 2nd degree murder in 1979 for an arson incident that killed a boy, according to the Daily News. The parole officer, Samuel Salters,...

Author Maud Franklin will read from her book Le Taxi tonight at the Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Green. Le Taxi, written in French, features artwork by Brooklyn-based artist Nathalie Trovato. The French-language reading and art show by Trovato will begin at 7:30 pm at Greenlight Books, 686 Fulton Street in Fort Greene.

Festivities celebrating Earth Day’s 40th anniversary begin tomorrow with the first annual We Can Green Brooklyn Fair. Events will take place throughout the borough until Sunday, April 25. The full schedule can be found here:

The $800,000 playground in the Brookly Bridge Park is closed for repairs, less than a month after it opened according to the Daily News. The playground, part of the $350 million park renovation, has deteriorated quickly, requiring repairs for safety reasons.

Police have identified the parole officer shot last night as Samuel Salters, 49. Salters was in the office of the New York State Parole Division on Schemerhorn Street to meet with one of his parolees, Robert Morales of Bushwick. Morales shot Salters twice, once in the shoulder and stomach, with a Ruger 9mm handgun. Morales...