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Following the Washington Heights riot, fueled by the death of Jose “Kiko” Garcia, an undocumented Dominican person and illegally in the country was fatally shot by NYPD officer Michael O'Keefe, Dinkins attempted to diffuse tensions by inviting Garcia's family to Gracie Mansion. The city's police felt betrayed by Dinkins' embrace of Garcia ...
The 1991 Washington, D.C., riot, sometimes referred to as the Mount Pleasant riot or Mount Pleasant Disturbance, [1] occurred in May 1991, when rioting broke out in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in response to an African-American female police officer having shot a Salvadoran man in the chest following a Cinco de Mayo celebration.
The D.C. sniper attacks (also known as the Beltway sniper attacks) were a series of coordinated shootings that occurred during three weeks in October 2002 throughout the Washington metropolitan area, consisting of the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, and preliminary shootings, that consisted of murders and robberies in several states, and lasted for six months starting in February ...
Police said 43-year-old Ricky Minor Jr. of Capitol Heights was taken into custody and charged with the murder of 31-year-old Duane Glenn. Police said the shooting happened on on Sept. 21, just ...
1992 – Washington Heights riots, occurred July 4 through 7 following the fatal police shooting of Jose Garcia, a 23-year-old immigrant from the Dominican Republic. One man was killed after falling five stories off a building, 15 were injured and 11 were arrested. [26] 1992 – Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Riot, occurred September 16.
A man opened fire, killing a 25-year-old student and wounding two others. The shooting suspects: Tevita Kaihea and Charlie Hola (both 19 years old) were not arrested for the shooting until December of that year and in 2018 Kaihea was sentenced to 112 years to life in prison and Hola was sentenced to 49 years to life. [263] [264] [265] [266]
A shooting at a Goodyear Heights apartment complex left a 20-year-old man dead and a 58-year-old woman injured Wednesday morning.
Authorities on Friday reported the stabbing death of a 19-year-old Richton Park man in Chicago Heights. Camari Branch, of the 22100 block of Hillside Drive, suffered multiple stab wounds at an ...