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Police investigate the fatal shooting of Shane Kelly, 16, outside of his home on Castleton Ave. near N. Mada Ave. in West Brighton on Monday, Dec. 15, 2019, in Staten Island.
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Investigators are at the scene where three people were shot on Mangin Ave.at Hannibal St. on Sept. 22, 2019, in Jamaica, Queens.
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NYPD officers investigate the stabbing of an unidentified individual at the 55th Street stop on the D train on Feb. 25, 2019 in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Police are looking for two suspects who fled the scene.
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Police investigate after a person was shot in the head on 95th St. near 35th Ave. on Thursday, July 12, 2019, in Queens.
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A man on a bicycle who was reportedly breaking into cars was rushed to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in critical condition, but could not be saved, after a man driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV chased him down and crushed him into two parked cars and a tractor before flipping the SUV on Broadway near Ellery St. on Sept.2, 2019, in Brooklyn. The driver was promptly arrested.
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Gunfire erupted with about a dozen people shot, precipitating a stampede, before 11 p.m. on Saturday, July 27, 2019, at a large outdoor gathering on a playground near the intersection of Hegeman Ave. and Christopher Ave. in Brownsville, Brooklyn, police said. According to a police source, one person died at the scene. Other sources said at least one child was injured. Mayor De Blasio tweeted, "We had a terrible shooting in Brownsville tonight that shattered a peaceful neighborhood event. Our hearts go out to the victims. We will do everything in our power to keep this community safe and get guns off our streets."
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Technicians from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in New York City remove the body of an unidentified male on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, at approximately 11:30 p.m., who was fatally shot on the 8th floor of 130 East 115 street, located in NYCHA's, James Weldon Johnson Houses in East Harlem.
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A police officer investigates the scene of a triple shooting on Sept. 2, 2019, in Queens. A 35-year-old man was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital after he, a 28-year-old man and a 27-year-old man were all shot on 92nd Ave. near 130th St. on September 2, in Queens. Reports indicate the shooting followed a dispute that started around the corner inside the Mazi Nightclub at 130-35 91st Ave. The 28-year-old male was listed in critical condition at Jamaica Hospital.
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Neighbors react as NYPD officers and detectives investigate at 88 Crystal Street where two people were stabbed on April 8, 2019 in East New York in Brooklyn.
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Police are in front of 1014 Westchester Ave. where three men were shot at the corner of Simpson St. and Westchester Ave. in Foxhurst on Nov. 27, 2019, in the Bronx. One man, 19, was hit in the stomach, a second, 29, in the shoulder, and a third, 22, in the leg.
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NYPD detectives investigate the scene where Rakeem Edwards, 31, was fatally shot in the back of the head about 10 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16, 2019, outside of the Marcus Garvey Houses near Amboy St. in Brooklyn.
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NYPD officers and detectives gather evidence at the scene where a 21-year-old man was fatally gunned down with a bullet hitting his head in broad daylight on Brooklyn Avenue near Foster Avenue in East Flatbush on April 10, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police investigate at the scene of a stabbing outside 1036 President Street on April 19, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police investigate a shooting that occurred inside Khf Supermarket at 709 Flatbush Ave. on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, in Brooklyn. A 41-year-old male was fatally shot in the chest while standing inside the KHF Supermarket on Flatbush Ave. on Thursday, police said.
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A suspect in the fatal stabbing of a female at 333 3rd Ave. is perched on the ledge of 363 3rd Ave. on Thursday, April 8, 2020, at approximately 11:45 p.m., in Manhattan, while police surround the building. A health and wellness expert, 64-year-old Gabrielle Gottlieb, running for her life from her knife-wielding lover, was stabbed to death inside a Manhattan wine shop on Third Ave. near E. 25th St., after breaking off their engagement, police and a friend of the victim said Thursday.
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Police investigate the scene of a double shooting outside the Soundview Houses on Nov. 17, 2019, in the Bronx. A gunman shot two brothers, 21 and 19, police said.
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Police are at the scene in front of 717 St. Nicholas Ave. on Aug. 15, 2019, in the Bronx where an unidentified male who was shot in his leg was treated and removed to a local hospital in an unknown condition. Bloodied medical paraphernalia lies in street.
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A victim is removed from the scene after allegedly being bludgeoned to death while sleeping on the street on Oct. 5, 2019, in New York. Four homeless men were allegedly killed by Randy Rodriguez Santos, 24, while they slept, beginning at 2 Bowery near Doyers St. where the first victim was killed, with three killed on East Broadway near Catherine St. just a block away, on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019, in New York. A fifth alleged victim is in critical condition with a scull fracture.
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Police respond to the scene of a shooting at 427 52nd St. on Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, in Brooklyn.
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Anthony Santana, 37, was pronounced dead at Woodhull Hospital after he was fatally stabbed in the back a fight inside of the Express Deli & Tobacco on Sept. 20, 2019, at 132 Graham Ave. in Brooklyn.
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The wife, right, and sister of Anthony Santana, 37, react at the scene of where he was fatally stabbed on Friday morning, Sept. 20, 2019, in Brooklyn. Santana was pronounced dead at Woodhull Hospital after he was knifed in the back during a fight inside of the Express Deli & Tobacco at 132 Graham Ave. in Brooklyn.
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Police investigate a shooting of three males and one female outside of Iglacias Sol De Justicia church on 62nd St. and 3rd Ave. on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020, in Sunset Park in Brooklyn. Their injuries appear not to be life-threatening, police said.
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Police investigate a double shooting on Hawthorne Street between Rogers Avenue and Nostrand Avenue on March 31, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police respond to 720 Westchester Ave. on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019, in the Bronx, after a dog was shot in an apartment.
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NYPD officers and detectives investigate the scene on Bushwick Avenue where a man drove after being shot in his car at a McDonalds on Pennsylvania Avenue on April 8, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police investigate the scene of a stabbing on 46th St. near 8th Ave. on Monday, July 22, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police investigate a homicide on Kneeland Ave. and Manilla St. on Aug. 25, 2019, in Queens.
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Police investigate the scene of a shooting outside 47 McKeever Place in the Ebbets Field Apartments on Nov. 10, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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An injured person is removed in an ambulance following a melee involving several people in a fight with knives, a tire iron and other objects outside of Schnippers, a restaurant at the corner of W. 41st St. and Eighth Ave., on Nov. 25, 2019, in Manhattan.
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A Belgian Shepherd, named Bambi - with a leash attached - fatally shot by an off-duty Secret Service agent is under a sheet at Caton Place and E. 8th Street on Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, in Brooklyn.
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Law enforcement personnel and emergency medical services are at the scene of the multiple fatal shooting at Triple A Aces Private and Social Rental Space on Utica Ave. on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, in Brooklyn. As many as 15 shots were fired inside the first-floor club around 7 a.m., with four victims dying at the scene according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea.
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Police investigate after a 13-year-old was shot in the area of 2060 Mapes Ave. on Monday, July 1, 2019, in the Bronx. Cones cover the places where bullet casings were found.
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Police investigate a shooting outside of the Show Palace All Nude Gentlemen's Club on Saturday, Feb.22, 2020, in Queens. An unidentified man was taken to Cornell Hospital in Manhattan by private means after he was shot in the shoulder and hip with a barrage of bullets.
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An NYPD crime scene investigator is on the scene in Morningside Park on Dec. 11, 2019, where Tessa Majors, 18, was fatally stabbed, in New York.
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Police, including high-ranking NYPD personnel, investigate where a Barnard College student, Tessa Majors, was found stabbed to death in Morningside Park on Dec. 11, 2019, in New York.
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Police arrest a suspect in a stabbing which occurred outside 1036 President Street on April 19, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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An unidentified male was shot in this Honda on March 25, 2019, on East 142 Street at Wales Avenue in the Bronx. The victim was removed to a local hospital in non-life-threatening condition. Bullet holes are visible on the driver's side window, door and rear door.
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Police investigate at the scene of a shooting on 60th St.near Metropolitan Ave. on Aug. 30, 2019, in Queens.
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Police secure the 4th floor at 2396 Valentine Ave. on Feb. 7, 2020, in the Bronx, where two males were stabbed, one fatally. Christian Montez, 32, died during an argument with his girlfriend, Amarily Valentino, after her stepfather got involved and began fighting with Montez. Montez was stabbed in the chest, police said, and the stepfather was slashed in the face. It was not immediately clear who pulled the weapon.
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Family and friends of Rudolph Dunning, 25, gather for a candlelight vigil outside his home on Sheffield Ave. on Monday, March 9, 2020, in Brooklyn. Dunning was fatally stabbed after opening a subway gate for a stranger on March 7 in the Bronx, according to police.
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Police search for evidence at the scene of a shooting outside 2726 Linden Blvd. in NYCHA's Pink Houses on Oct.24, 2019 in Brooklyn.
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A man who was bleeding heavily after being stabbed in the left arm on Sept. 28, 2019, on Eldridge St. near Division St. in Manhattan, tried to chase down his attacker before giving up on Eldridge St. at Canal St.
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Police investigate the scene of a shooting on Gates Ave. and Nostrand Ave. on Sept. 2, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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A parked car with a shattered window is at the scene of a triple shooting on the corner of Dean St. and Howard Ave. on Dec. 2, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police secure the corner of Morris and East Burnside Aves. at approximately 12:30 a.m. on Dec. 28, 2019, in the Bronx, where Devon McFarlane, 24, was fatally shot just after 11:30 p.m. on Friday, according to police. The victim was removed by ambulance to St. Barnabus Hospital, but he could not be saved.
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The crime scene is marked where a man was fatally shot on the corner of 129th Ave. and 161st St. in Springfield Gardens on Oct. 23, 2019, in Queens.
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A 30-year-old woman was pronounced dead on scene after she was stabbed multiple times inside a third-floor apartment at 58-27 Van Cleef St. on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020, in Queens.
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Police investigate the scene of a shooting on E. 28th St. between Cortelyou Rd. and Clarendon Rd. on Sept. 5, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Bullet holes in the front of a white Chevrolet SUV are seen on Oct. 16, 2019, outside of the Gowanus Houses on Hoyt St. after last night's police-involved shooting in Brooklyn.
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Gunfire erupted with about a dozen people shot, precipitating a stampede, before 11 p.m. on Saturday, July 27, 2019, at a large outdoor gathering on a playground near the intersection of Hegeman Ave. and Christopher Ave. in Brownsville, Brooklyn, police said. One of the food vendors, Gary Miller, said, "It was chaos. People were breaking down, having outbursts."
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Gunfire erupted with about a dozen people shot, precipitating a stampede, before 11 p.m. on Saturday, July 27, 2019, at a large outdoor gathering on a playground near the intersection of Hegeman Ave. and Christopher Ave. in Brownsville, Brooklyn, police said. Some of the sponsors of this block party named "Old Timers' Day" are several local politicians, including City Council Member Inez Barron, Assemblyman Charles Barron and Assemblywoman Latrice Walker.
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Trevor Rhudd's body is removed from the scene at Beach Channel Drive and Beach 41st Street on Jan. 13, 2018, in Rockaway, Queens, where the teen was fatally shot.
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Police investigate a fatal shooting of a 41-year-old man on Eldert St. near Wilson Ave. on Oct. 31, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police and firefighters respond to a stabbing and a fire at 373 42nd Street on April 12, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police investigate after a person was shot in the head on 95th St. near 35th Ave. on Thursday, July 12, 2019, in Queens.
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Police are at the scene where a body was found on Sept. 12, 2019, possibly wrapped in a carpet, near 301 W. 145 St. and Bradhurst Ave. in Harlem.
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Police investigate the scene of a stabbing on Atlantic Avenue and Nostrand Avenue on March 29, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police investigate a stabbing outside W. 46th St. near Sixth Ave. on Nov. 25, 2019, in Manhattan.
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NYPD officers investigate the scene after a person was shot near 88th Street and 37th Avenue on April 8, 2019, in Jackson Heights, Queens.
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Andre Myrtil, 49, shot his wife, 39-year-old Petula Myrtil multiple times, then shot himself once in the head as they sat in a parked vehicle at Louisiana Ave. and Twin Pines Drive about 9:15 a.m. on Monday, March 9, 2020, in Starrett City, Brooklyn, police said.
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Police search for a suspect following a shooting on Gates Ave. and Nostrand Ave. on Sept.13, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police investigate a homicide on the corner of Saint Marks Avenue and New York Avenue on May 16, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police secure the scene where an unidentified male was shot on Bainbridge Ave. and E. 196 St. on Aug. 16, 2019, in the Bronx. The victim was removed to a local hospital in an unknown condition.
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Police investigate a double shooting on E. 145th St. near Lenox Ave. on Sept. 15, 2019, in Manhattan.
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Cups marking bullet casings are at the scene of a police-involved shooting outside 426 Baltic St. on Oct. 15, 2019, in Brooklyn, New York. According to authorities, two plain-clothes officers who identified themselves as police and ordered Nasheem Prioleau, who was opening fire at someone else, to drop his weapon, before gunfire was exchanged between the officers and Prioleau. Police fatally shot Prioleau, who police sources say is a known Bloods member who goes by the street name "Trigger," and was involved in four other shootings in the 76th Precinct alone. Prioleau was released on parole five days before he was killed.
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Medics remove a shooting victim on Monday, Feb. 24, 2020, from the Farragut Houses, on Sands St. in downtown Brooklyn. James Suggs, 35, was pronounced dead at Brooklyn Hospital after being shot in the face just after 3:30 p.m., police said.
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A victim's sneaker lays on the pavement as NYPD officers and detectives investigate a multiple, fatal shooting on Saturday, April 11, 2020, at the corner of East 112th St. and First Ave., in East Harlem. Two men died and a third was wounded police and witnesses said.
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Police investigate a shooting at 31-05 102nd Street on April 9, 2019, in Queens.
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Heavily armed police are seen on Oct. 18, 2019, at the scene on 26 W. 131 St. in Harlem, where Bruce Anderson, 59, killed two of his neighbors, set his apartment on fire and then fatally shot himself.
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Police investigate a stabbing at Penn Station on Monday, Dec. 30, 2019, in Manhattan.
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Police investigate a fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old teenage girl outside 116-24 166th St. on Nov. 15, 2019, in Queens. Talasia Cuffie died at Jamaica Hospital after being found bleeding on the sidewalk after being stabbed multiple times in the torso.
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Police investigate a multiple shooting outside of 611 Blake Ave. on Sept. 27, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police investigate at the scene in front of 2305 Ryer Ave. and E. 183rd St. on Oct. 25, 2019, in the Bronx, where at least three people were shot. Five spent bullet casings are located in the street and on the sidewalk, in front of the location. According to police, a 40-year-old woman was hit in buttocks, a 24-year-old man was hit in the back and an 18-year-old was shot in the left leg when two men walked up to the trio sitting outdoors and at least one gun was fired. All the victims were taken to area hospitals in stable condition.
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NYPD detectives leave 151 W. 121th St. on Nov. 7, 2019, after investigating the murder of Jennifer Schlecht, 42, and her five-year-old daughter. The pair were found dead Sunday evening along with Schlecht's husband Yonathan Tedla in an apparent murder-suicide.
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Members of the NYPD investigate a shooting involving five victims at 151th St. and Courtlandt Ave. on Nov. 27, 2019, in the Bronx. A 10-year-old boy, a 14-year-old boy, two women and one man were shot as a gunman wildly shot people about 3:50 p.m. while chasing another man up the street.
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Police secure the scene where an unidentified male was stabbed in the front and back of his upper body in front of 229 W. 42 St. on Oct. 25, 2019, in Manhattan. The victim was removed to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, police said.
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A man who was shot on Georgia Avenue is assisted by EMTs to a waiting ambulance on April 8, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police exit NYCHA's Forest Houses late Monday night on April 1, 2019, in the Bronx, after a man was critically injured after being shot in the head in a seventh-floor apartment. According to police sources the apartment is drug-ridden.
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Police search for evidence at the scene of a shooting on Myrtle Avenue and Navy Street on April 18, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police investigate a double stabbing on 14th Ave. near Bath Ave. on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020, in Brooklyn.
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Police investigate a fatal shooting at a deli on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, at 3700 White Plains Road in the Bronx. Mohammed Qutaish, 20, was killed where he'd worked for the past two years, allegedly by the Topping Kelly, brother of Raquel Kelly, 25, who had gotten into an argument with Qutaish because the store didn't sell the loose cigarettes she demanded.
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Police investigate a fatal stabbing at 89-12 Albert Road on Nov. 8, 2019, in Queens, New York. Donne Dojoy was stabbed to death at her estranged husband, Dineshwar Budhidat's apartment in Ozone Park, Queens on Friday night. Police found Budhidat's body a short time later, hanging from a tree in Brooklyn's Spring Creek Park, about a mile and a half away from the bloody murder scene. Budhidat had texted a cousin to say he'd killed Dojoy and was going to kill himself.
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Police secure the scene where Winston McKay, 40, was fatally shot during a robbery at Amsterdam Ave. and E. 146th St., a few blocks from his home, on June 10, 2019, in Manhattan.
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Police investigate the scene of a triple shooting on the corner of Dean St. and Howard Ave. on Dec. 2, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police investigate a shooting on E. 182nd St. and Creston Ave. on Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, in the Bronx. Police have charged a homeless man, Christopher Padin, 27, with fatally shooting Matthew Jones, 23, during an argument over money.
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A police officer is on the scene where Ramon Marrero, 54, was fatally stabbed inside of 1306 Ocean Ave. on Nov. 3, 2019, in Brooklyn. Marrero was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital. Norberto Lozada, 44, is accused of brutally killing his cousin, Marrero.
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Police investigate the scene of a stabbing on Atlantic Avenue and Nostrand Avenue on March 29, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Housing police are securing the scene in the courtyard of the Jacob Riis Houses on East 11th Street in Manhattan, where a 27-year-old man staggered and died after being stabbed in the stomach in a youth shelter on E. Ninth St. near Avenue C on March 25, 2019, in Manhattan. The victim was taken to Bellevue Hospital but did not survive.
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Family members react at the scene where four people were pronounced dead, after nine people were shot, during a celebration at the Triple A Aces Private and Social Rental Space on Utica Ave. on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, in Brooklyn. A source told the Daily News the shooting began in an apparent dispute over a card game.
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Shell casings are marked on the street as police investigate a double shooting on Hawthorne Street between Rogers Avenue and Nostrand Avenue on March 31, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Detectives are examining the gun, at the left front bumper of a gray van, a cell phone and keys that belonged to the suspect who was fatally shot during barrage of gunfire between two plainclothes police officers and the gunman who was wildly shooting in a parking lot Washington Heights on April 18, 2019, in Manhattan. One police officer was shot in the arm.
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A 15-year-old student was taken to Brooklyn Hospital Center after he was slashed in the neck outside of the George Westinghouse High School on Nov. 25, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police respond to a stabbing which occurred inside of a McDonald's on Oct. 10, 2019, at 90-67 Sutphin Blvd. in Queens.
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Police respond to a shooting on 181st Place and 144th Ave. on Aug. 22, 2019, in Queens.
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Police secure the scene in front of the New York City Housing Authority Wagner Houses on Jan. 2, 2020, in East Harlem in Manhattan. At the rear tire is a handgun believed to have been used in the shooting of an unidentified male who was removed to a local hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest.
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Police are on the scene where Nikia Webster was shot dead inside her home early on Oct. 24, 2019, on South Ave. near Arlington Place in Staten Island, police said. She died at the scene.
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Police investigate a fatal shooting at B & A Gourmet Deli on Brook Ave. near E. 137th St. on Friday, Feb. 14, 2020, in the Bronx. Yehya Almontaser, 34, working inside the deli when a suspect walked in about 6:40 p.m. and shot him at least twice in the chest, police said. Almontaser died at Lincoln Hospital. Almontaser is a recent U.S. citizen and leaves behind a wife in Egypt, community leaders said.
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Police investigate a fatal police-involved shooting on Mother Gaston Blvd.and Sutter Ave. on Oct. 25, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Leonard Nieves is led out of the 40th Precinct on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, in the Bronx. He is accused of silently gunning down the clerk of his neighborhood deli. Officers found Nieves just a couple of blocks away from the Mott Haven deli where police say he shot store clerk Yehya Almontaser Friday, Feb. 14. Police were looking into whether the shooting was drug-related, sources said, noting that the 34-year-old victim had been locked up on a marijuana-dealing charge at the deli just a day earlier. The shooter wore a mask and walked with a cane when he walked into the B & A Gourmet Deli on Brook Ave. near E. 137th St. and opened fire, hitting Almontaser several times in the chest, police said.
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NYPD officers and detectives collect evidence after a fatal shooting of a man outside the Key Food on Rockaway Beach Blvd. at Beach 87th St. in Rockaway Beach on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019, in Queens. According to police, the 45-year-old victim was shot in the chest and arms when a gunman opened fire just after 6:15 p.m.
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The third victim is removed from the scene of the multiple fatal shooting at Triple A Aces Private and Social Rental Space on Utica Ave. on Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Bloodstains are inside the hallway where four men were stabbed after a Christmas party on Dec. 25, 2019, in the Bronx.
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Bloody clothing and bandages remain on the sidewalk at the scene on Grand Street and Berry Street where a man was stabbed on March 16, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police secure the scene on E. 116th St. and Third Ave. where a Purcell Gowie, 43, a Brooklyn resident who worked as a counselor for Services for the Underserved, was fatally shot to his chest on Feb. 12, 2020, in East Harlem, after a fight on the street involving teenagers, police said.
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One of two armed robbery suspects was arrested and taken to the hospital after he was stabbed on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019, by an employee of the Smoke Shop at 233 Fifth Ave. in Brooklyn. While fleeing from the store, one of the suspects threw his gun, seen here, beneath a Subaru SUV parked on Carroll St. between Fifth and Sixth Aves.
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An NYPD officer searches the scene where a 31-year-old man was fatally shot on Saturday night, April 11, 2020, near the corner of Buffalo Ave. and Sterling Pl. in Crown Heights at around 8:02 p.m., police said.
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A suspect who lives in a seventh-floor apartment on Jewel Ave., behind the 107th Precinct, was taken into custody in handcuffs on Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019, after a two-hour standoff with police, who initially responded to a report of an assault in progress in Queens.
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Police are seen here in front of 2356 Grand Concourse on Thursday, July 11, 2019, in the Bronx where an unidentified male was shot inside the building, at approximately 9:30 p.m. The victim was removed to Saint Barnabus Hospital where he died.
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Police investigate the fatal shooting of Shane Kelly, 16, outside of his home on Castleton Ave. near N. Mada Ave. in West Brighton on Monday, Dec. 15, 2019, in Staten Island.
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Police officers investigate the scene of a shooting on Sept. 22, 2019, in Queens. A 21 year-old-man was pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital after he was shot multiple times the day before in front of the Humble Heart Christian Church at 194-18 120th Ave. in Queens.
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NYPD officers and detectives investigate a fatal shooting on Friday, April 10, 2020, at E. 101st St. and First Ave. in East Harlem. Victim Darnell Brown, 23, was gunned down in front of his girlfriend. He was rushed to Metropolitan Hospital, but he could not be saved. "It appears to be a love triangle," a police source told the Daily News Friday. "The victim's girlfriend has a child in common with the shooter."
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Police investigate a double fatal shooting on 255th St. near 149th Dr. on Aug. 26, 2019, in Queens.
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The window of a deli is shattered after a double shooting on Nostrand Avenue and Gates Avenue on April 8, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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Police officers secure the scene where four homeless men were allegedly beaten to death and one man critically injured with a skull fracture on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019, in New York.
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An unidentified man, stabbed in his left shoulder and left leg, is secured by police and treated by EMS, on the corner of W. 45th St. and Eighth Ave. on March 20, 2020, in Manhattan. Two men and one woman were involved in a bloody confrontation in the heart of the theater district.
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A 28-year-old man was rushed to Harlem Hospital in critical condition after he was shot in the chest on E. 116th St. near Madison Ave. on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2020, in Manhattan. A bullet shattered the glass bus stop enclosure. Overall crime is up 16.9% in New York in Jan. 2020, compared to the same time last year, according to the NYPD
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Police investigate the scene of a shooting outside 1483 St. Johns Place on April 16, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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NYPD officers search for a suspect after a person was shot near 88th Street and 37th Avenue on April 8, 2019, in Jackson Heights, Queens.
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Police are secure the scene in front of 506 W. 135 St. on Friday, July 19, 2019, at approximately 11:30 p.m., where an unidentified male was stabbed. The victim was removed to a local hospital in serious condition.
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Police investigate the scene where three people were shot in an apartment at 2119 Utica Ave. on Nov. 10, 2019, in Brooklyn. A woman was killed by her suicidal ex and her boyfriend was injured in what appears to be the city's third murder-suicide in less than a week, sources said. The boyfriend was taken to Woodhull Hospital with a gunshot wound to the torso. His condition was stable, police said.
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Gunfire erupted with about a dozen people shot, precipitating a stampede, before 11 p.m. on Saturday, July 27, 2019, at a large outdoor gathering on a playground near the intersection of Hegeman Ave. and Christopher Ave. in Brownsville, Brooklyn, police said. "It was packed back here, there were so many people," said witness Diamond Perez, 38. "I heard shots, and I saw a stampede running toward me."
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Police investigate at the scene of a shooting in St. John's Park on April 8, 2019, in Brooklyn.
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An unidentified male was slashed near the West 44th Street and 8th Avenue entrance of the 42nd Street stop of the A/C/E trains on April 9, 2019, in Manhattan. Visible on the staircase is a bloodied sheet that was used to stop the blood from the victim's wound. The victim was removed to a local hospital in an unknown condition.
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A woman who identified herself as the wounded man's sister weeps at the scene of a fatal police-involved shooting on Mother Gaston Blvd.and Sutter Ave. on Oct. 25, 2019, in Brooklyn. She screamed, "They murdered my brother."
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Police investigate the scene where 17-year-old Pernell Pompey was fatally stabbed at E. 193rd St. and Decatur Ave. in Fordham Manor in the Bronx, about 7:20 p.m. on Feb. 13, 2019.
Police investigate the fatal shooting of Shane Kelly, 16, outside of his home on Castleton Ave. near N. Mada Ave. in West Brighton on Monday, Dec. 15, 2019, in Staten Island.
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Four men swept into an apartment being used as an illegal gambling joint in Queens and made off with seven slot machines, police said.
The robbery crew, dressed in hoods and masks, waded into the joint near 35th Ave. and Union St. in Flushing on Tuesday about 4:15 a.m. and pointed a gun at a 27-year-old woman.
As she cowered, they took the seven machines and left.
Cops released video of the suspects on Friday.
Anyone with information can call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at (800) 577-TIPS. Calls are confidential.