Filed under: Edits, News | Tags: Bronx, fordham, Kingsbridge, NYPD, Shooting
So less than 20 minutes after posting about the guy on the fire escape I found this. I guess if you’re going to shoot somebody wielding a mop, the guy with the bat is just asking for it.
Eyewitness News is told he was shot once in the chest and rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced dead in surgery.
Officials say police responded to the building on a report of a man with a bat in a dispute with another person. They encountered the man and ordered him several times to put down his bat.
He allegedly refused, and police said, lunged at them with the bat. One of the officers fired one shot at the man, hitting him once in the chest.
Courtesy Eyewitness News
And to think the vast majority of cops in the UK don’t carry guns at all. Crime rates must be through the roof.
-Pete
Just a few blocks south of the Belmont neighborhood so many of us call home, a 29-year-old pedestrian was killed by a Bx36 bus early this Monday morning. The incident occurred at E. 180th St. and Washington Ave. in the Tremont section of The Bronx. The victim was thrown into the oncoming bus when he was hit by another vehicle. The driver of that vehicle then fled the scene.
Sorry about the shitty video player, but it’s the best we could do. I’d just as soon ignore the ads. The video you want is of a gray car that looks as though it was hit from the side.
Read the story here.
-Pete
We here at the paper, always willing to let someone else pick up our slack and do most of the work, went out and scoured the local Bronx polling locations, interviewing voters to see what our fellow Bronxites were thinking as the polls opened this morning.
Vote or Die on E. 196th St.
And now that the polling stations in New York are closed (Surprise!!… CNN already declared the state for Obama), we direct all 7 of our blog readers to the local news organization that actually went out and covered the Bronx elections, the West Bronx News Network.
-Pete
