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Shooting in Brighton Beach, NY Leaves One Dead and Four Wounded
One person was killed and four others injured during a wild shooting on a packed Boardwalk in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, on Thursday afternoon, the police said.
Brighton Beach, NY – One person was killed and four others injured during a wild shooting on a packed Boardwalk in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, on Thursday afternoon, the police said.
Shooting at Brighton Beach
The shooting unfolded on a day when a mini-heat wave and a school holiday sent scores of people to Coney Island and Brighton Beach, which were teeming with beachgoers — many of them teenagers — trying to escape temperatures approaching 100 degrees.
Brighton Beach Shooting Victims
According to the authorities, a gunman opened fire on the boardwalk near Brighton Sixth Street about 5:20 p.m., gravely wounding a man and a woman; the woman died at Coney Island Hospital, where the man was in critical condition.
Three other people hit by bullets were also hospitalized; a man was in serious condition at Lutheran Medical Center. None of the victims’ names were released.
One person was being questioned in the shootings late Thursday, but the police said there had been no arrests.
The gunfire set off panic on the Boardwalk. Witnesses described scires of people running and yelling as they scrambled for safety.
Witnesses
“It was pandemonium; everyone was screaming,” said Anastasiya Novikova, 16, who said she had heard five shots. She was on the Boardwalk with her boyfriend.
Another beachgoer, Saya Suzuki, 30, was about to sit in a restaurant on the Boardwalk with her 6-year-old daughter when the gunfire started. She said she heard at least five shots just outside, then saw a young man and a woman run by her.
“I just picked up my daughter and got away from the bullets,” Ms. Suzuki said. “It happened so quickly, and I had to protect my daughter.”
Terrified, Ms. Suzuki hunkered down and waited for two hours after the shooting before leaving the restaurant.
The police said it was unclear what had prompted the shooting or whether the victims — who the police said were in their late teens or 20s — were all intended targets.
One of the shots missed a woman who was watching television in her sixth-floor apartment on the corner of Brighton Sixth Street and the Boardwalk.
The bullet went through a window, the woman, Marion Smith, said. She said that at first she thought the noise was from her air-conditioner.
“I was sitting on the couch and all of a sudden the noise came out of a clear sky,” she said. “I never dreamt it was a bullet. Never in my whole life.”
Nicole Harris, 23, a security guard at Ms. Smith’s building, 3161 Brighton Sixth Street, said she was sitting at her desk overlooking Beach Sixth Street when the shooting began.
“You heard five pops in the beginning, and everybody started running,” she said. “I saw a whole bunch of boys coming up in red shirts afterward.” She said she heard that a group of young women had started fighting shortly after the shooting.
Hector Ramos, the building’s superintendent, said it had 32 security cameras.
With temperatures soaring, the beach, often a magnet for sweltering New Yorkers, was especially packed on Thursday. Students had the day off for Brooklyn-Queens Day, a holiday on which many students flock to local beaches.
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Magnitude 4.8 earthquake strikes northeastern United States
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake in Lebanon, New Jersey shook the northeastern United States on Friday morning.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake shook the northeastern United States on Friday morning.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the 4.8-magnitude earthquake was detected near Lebanon, New Jersey, at 10:23 a.m. Friday.
The earthquake was felt in New Hampshire down to Maryland.
According to the Richter scale, which is used to measure earthquake magnitude, they considered the event a “light” earthquake. Still, the geological survey posted on X that it was “notable.” They went on further to say earthquakes are “uncommon but not unheard of along the Atlantic Coast”.
It’s not yet clear if anyone was hurt in Friday’s quake.
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9-year-old cancer survivor killed in tragic school bus accident
A family is in mourning after a 9-year-old cancer survivor was tragically killed in an accident in Orlando.
A family is in mourning after a 9-year-old cancer survivor was tragically killed in an accident in Orlando, Florida.
9-year-old cancer survivor tragically killed
Elyas Amyr Marshall-Rodriguez got off the bus Tuesday afternoon and, as he was walking away from the bus, he dropped his football when he crawled under the bus to get it and the vehicle began moving.
Marshall-Rodriguez was in remission for leukemia when he was killed on Tuesday after being diagnosed at 2-years-old, according to his family who spoke at his vigil.
He loved life
“He was the life of the party,” said Trenae Gayle, Marshall-Rodriguez’ cousin. “He loved football; he loved basketball. He loved all sports.”
The family has set up a GoFundMe.
The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the incident and the investigation is currently ongoing.
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Hero teen saves baby whose parents were electrocuted by downed power line in Portland ice storm
A teenager in Oregon is being hailed a hero for putting herself in danger to help save the life of a 9-month-old baby.
A teenager in Oregon is being hailed a hero for putting herself in danger to help save the life of a 9-month-old baby.
Oregon teenager saves baby
Majiah Washington, 18, of Portland, said she was inside her home on Wednesday when she saw a flash outside her window.
Washington said after looking outside, she saw a car with a downed power line on top of it, and man and a woman who had been trying to put their child in the car.
“The baby’s mom was yelling to the man, ‘Take my baby out of the car. Take my baby out of the car,'” Washington recalled at a press conference Thursday at the headquarters of Portland Fire & Rescue.
Intense rescue
Washington witnessed the infant’s father attempt to walk up an icy hill with the child, before slipping and falling backwards. The mother attempted the same, followed by another person, who all were unfortunately electrocuted.
Washington ran outside and called 911. When she saw the baby’s head move, she sprung into action. Despite what she had just witnessed and the dangers, she said she walked on the driveway to reach the baby.
Majiah Washington was heroic
Portland Fire and Rescue spokesman Rick Graves described Washington’s efforts as “heroic.”
“We do have fortunately with us a [child] that is going to be able to thrive and do what they possibly can as they move forward,” Graves said Thursday. “And they are here, in part, because of the heroic acts of a member of our community.”
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