Category: <span>Crime</span>

Fort Greene resident shot to death in his backyard on Sunday evening. The police have not yet identified the killer.

Shahab Uddin, a 46-year-old Bengali man, was found by rescue crews inside his home, his body charred and his limbs tied together.

Otis "Junior" Edmonds was a man of exacting routines.
Every morning he rose at 5, walked out of his house, went to the Classon Grocery on the corner of Prospect Place, bought his newspaper and his scratch-off lottery tickets, got in his car and read the newspaper before heading to work.
Except for yesterday when Edmond, 63, was shot in the head as sat behind the wheel of his burgundy Mazda 626, reading his paper.

Jury selection began today in a Brooklyn courthouse in the trial of the first Wall Street executives charged with crimes stemming from the financial crisis, Matthew Tannin and Ralph Cioffi.