Two families cope after a fatal fight between New York City park employees.
At 8:30 p.m. on Friday, March 13, 2011, Rabia Mohammed, 23, and her husband, Shazam Khan, 29, were…
Ring. Ring. Ring.
It was a Wednesday morning and Wayne Graves, 62, wasn’t picking up his phone. That alarmed Gerard Torre, 61, a sculptor and Graves’ friend of 20 years. The night before, around 11 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct…
When a night of drinking in Richmond Hill, Queens leads to the death of one young man and the manslaughter conviction of another, who’s to blame?
Youshana Lewis approached the stand wearing dark blue jeans and a pale button-down top. Her hair tied up in a…
Ronald Giddens had been out of jail for less than seven months when he was detained on a Brooklyn street on December 2, 2013. He was carrying a revolver. His pants and sneakers were stained with blood.
Carl Richardson’s image is everywhere in his parents’ home in Brookville, Queens…
On the morning of Oct. 15, 2010, a 27-year-old man named Laseam Prince Eternal Hogan strolled into his local deli wearing bright blue Nike sneakers and a carefully coordinated baseball cap. His long dreadlocks had recently been cut, his mother…
One month into our reporting class on “Life and Death in Queens,” our professor handed us press releases from the office of the Queens County District Attorney. Each announced a local homicide and included a synopsis of the crime and the names of the defendant and the victim.
