US - News: Increasing violence as a health and safety threat - 2022/2023

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Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/violence-...ommunity-reels-gun-violence/story?id=82430617

Another violence interrupter killed in Baltimore as community reels from gun violence
DaShawn McGrier is the third Safe Streets member to be killed in a year.
ByDeena Zaru
24 January 2022, 05:12

A man who worked on the front lines of preventing gun violence in Baltimore, Maryland, was shot and killed on Wednesday night in a quadruple shooting on E. Monument Street, in the McElderry Park neighborhood.

Baltimore native DaShawn McGrier, 29, worked as a violence interrupter for Safe Streets and is the third member of the organization to be shot and killed in the last year.

"[DaShawn] was passionate about his community, and was working hard to make that community safer for his family, friends and neighbors," said Meg Ward, Vice President of Strategic Growth and Community Partnerships at Living Classrooms -- a nonprofit that operates two of the 10 Safe Streets sites in the city, including McElderry Park. "He was a son, he was a father, he was a partner. He was a brother, he was a devoted and present father to his child.

According to Ward, McGrier was having a conversation with the other two victims while working at his post on Monument Street when the shooting occurred.

"Apparently, a tow truck came around the corner and they just shot up the block," Ward said.

BPD identified the other victims as 28-year-old Tyrone Allen and 24-year-old Hassan Smith. A spokesperson told ABC News Friday that "no arrests have been made at this time."...

 

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Source: https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-borough...5--in-january-compared-to-same-time-last-year

NYPD: Overall NYC crime up 38.5% in January compared to same time last year
By Spectrum News Staff New York City
PUBLISHED 6:58 PM ET Feb. 03, 2022

Overall crime in New York City was up 38.5% last month compared with January 2021, NYPD numbers show.

According to the NYPD, increases in crime were seen nearly across the board.

Shooting incidents rose 31.6%, from 76 in January 2021 to 100 last month.
Transit crime incidents rose 75.2%, from 113 to 198.
Rape rose 26.7%, from 101 in January 2021 to 128 last month.
Robbery rose 33.1%, from 940 to 1,251; felony assault rose 12.3%, from 1,546 to 1,736.
Burglary rose 7.5%, from 1,106 to 1,189.
Grand larceny rose 58.5%, from 2,559 to 4,047.
Grand larceny – auto rose 91.5% from 620 to 1,187.

Hate crime incidents also rose 72 percent, from 18 to 31, police say. Nearly half (15) of those were antisemitic crimes, according to the NYPD – nearly triple the number of antisemitic crimes (4) in January 2021.

The only index crime that decreased was murder. There were five fewer murders in January 2022 than January 2021 (from 33 to 28, a decrease of 15.2%).

The statistics were released on the same day President Joe Biden visited the city to discuss his administration’s efforts to combat crime and gun violence...

 

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Carjacker runs over victim at Costco gas station

By Uptown Messenger | February 2, 2022

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A Costco customer who stopped to fill up her tank describes the incident in a Facebook post:

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https://uptownmessenger.com/2022/02/carjacker-runs-over-victim-at-costco-gas-station/

 

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https://www.insideedition.com/woman...subway-where-she-survived-hammer-attack-74410
By Inside Edition Staff
First Published: 3:06 PM PDT, April 15, 2022
Woman Returns to New York Subway Where She Survived Hammer Attack

Dr. Nina Rothschild was beaten over the head with a hammer 14 times by a man she did not know after she entered a Queens subway station three months ago. She suffered a fractured skull and a broken hand and will need months of physical therapy.

For the first time since she was severely injured in a hammer attack in a New York City subway station, Dr. Nina Rothschild returned to the scene of the crime.
A scientist with the New York City Health Department, Rothschild was leaving work when she was struck by a person she’d never met.
Surveillance footage captured the moment she was beaten over the head with a hammer 14 times as she entered the station in Queens three months ago. But Rothschild, 57, doesn’t need the footage to remind her of that day’s events; she remembers every agonizing moment of the traumatic encounter.
“I was assaulted right over there,” she said to Inside Edition.
“I remember that I was just starting to head down to the train station, and somebody started hitting me over the head with what I thought at the time was a baseball bat,” she said.
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Rothschild used to ride the subway every day but after surviving a traumatizing attack, as well as following the news of a mass shooting on a Manhattan-bound N train Brooklyn earlier this week that left 10 shot and 19 others injured, she now takes Ubers.

“I am not planning to take the subway for a while,” she said.

 

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[Emily]

Nice little city near Boston, MA overwhelmed by an emerging Clockwork Orange youth subculture.

https://www.lowellsun.com/2022/05/0...y-knife-wielding-assailants-at-market-basket/

 

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https://www.npr.org/2022/05/30/1102...-stolen-angel-statue-beheaded-brooklyn-church
A tabernacle was stolen and an angel statue was beheaded at a Brooklyn church

May 30, 202210:11 PM ET

The Associated Press

Police say someone busted into the altar at a New York City church, stole a $2 million gold tabernacle and removed the head from a statue of an angel at some point late last week.

The incident happened between 6:30 p.m. Thursday and 4 p.m. Saturday at St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church, known as the "Notre Dame" of Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood.

The church was closed for construction at the time. Camera recordings from the church's security system were also stolen, the church's pastor said.

The Diocese of Brooklyn called it "a brazen crime of disrespect and hate."...

 

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https://www.christianpost.com/polit...open-season-declared-on-pro-lifer-groups.html
DOJ urged to act after Jane's Revenge declares 'open season' on pro-life organizations
By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter

The group had previously called for the "disbanding of anti-choice establishments, fake clinics, and violent anti-choice groups within the next thirty days" in a manifesto published last month.
Pro-life leaders and lawmakers are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the wave of firebombings and vandalism targeting churches and pro-life pregnancy centers as a radical abortion activist group declared "open season" on pro-lifers.
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"Your thirty days expired yesterday," Jane's Revenge stated in the communique published on the anarchist website Abolition Media Tuesday. "We offered an honourable way out. You could have walked away. Now the leash is off. And we will make it as hard as possible for your campaign of oppression to continue."

The group recalled "how easy and fun it is to attack," listing off all the acts of vandalism it has claimed responsibility for in the past month, which includes Madison, Wisconsin; Fort Collins, Colorado; Reisertown, Massachusetts; Olympia, Washington; Lynwood, Washington; Asheville, North Carolina; Buffalo, New York; Frederick, Maryland; Denton, Texas and Portland, Oregon.

The group vowed that "from here forward, any anti-choice group who closes their doors, and stops operating will no longer be a target."

"But until you do, it's open season, and we know where your operations are. The infrastructure of the enslavers will not survive," the communique reads. "We will never stop, back down, slow down, or retreat. We did not want this; but it is upon us, and so we must deal with it proportionally. We exist in confluence and solidarity with all others in the struggle for complete liberation."

The group indicated that additional vandalism would extend beyond acts "easily cleaned up as fire and graffiti."...

https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/amherst-police-fire-at-compasscare-being-investigated-as-arson

Amherst police: Fire at CompassCare being investigated as arson


By: Anthony Reyes , Eileen Buckley
Posted at 10:53 AM, Jun 07, 2022
and last updated 2022-06-07 17:21:26-04

AMHERST, N.Y. (WKBW) — Amherst police are investigating a fire at CompassCare, a pregnancy services clinic located at 1230 Eggert Road, as an act of arson.
It was just after 3 a.m. Tuesday when police and fire were called here CompassCare Pregnancy Services on Eggert Road.
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Town of Amherst Supervisor Brian Kulpa released the following statement:

“This morning, two Town of Amherst volunteer firefighters were admitted to the hospital after they were overcome while battling a suspected arson fire at 1230 Eggert Road near Main. With reports that this fire was set intentionally, I am disgusted that lives were put at risk. Our thoughts are with the firefighters as they recover. A violent response is never the answer. There is no place in Amherst for such attacks. Amherst Police are working with our partners to continue its investigation to hold those responsible accountable for their actions.”​

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...rder-of-vermont-father-duped-fauci/ar-AAYYhQZ
Turkish biotech tycoon charged with plotting murder of Vermont father 'duped Fauci'
Jennifer Smith, Chief Reporter For Dailymail.Com - Tuesday

The Turkish biotech tycoon charged with plotting the murder of a Vermont father shot dead in 2018 is a former teenage magician who allegedly faked his own medical degree to dupe US healthcare executives, including Dr. Anthony Fauci.

Serhat Gumrukcu is the 39-year-old founder of Enochian Biosciences, which claims to be developing treatments for cancer, hepatitis and HIV. The company is listed on the NASDAQ with a valuation of of $137million, of which he is believed to own $98million.

Hindenburg Research recently described the company's work as being rooted in an 'entirely preclinical pipeline of claimed miracle cures'.

Gumrukcu founded the company claiming he had extensive medical training and a PhD from a university in Russia, but he is unlicensed to practice in the US.

Prosecutors also say there is no firm proof that his degree is real...

 

[Emily]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...AAZ9xxW?cvid=6ae7f075ad4c4d70bb5dccd4de630085
Violence, chaos erupts throughout Chicago over Fourth of July weekend

CBS Chicago - Yesterday 3:33 PM
CHICAGO (CBS) – Over the holiday weekend when many prepare to celebrate Independence Day, violence remains at the forefront in Chicago.

So far, at least two mass shootings happened over the weekend. The first happening after five men were leaving a business in the Loop Friday.

The men got into an argument with an unknown offender who produced a handgun and began firing multiple shots.

29-year-old Duan Bates suffered a gunshot wound to the left side of the head and was transported to Stroger Hospital in critical condition where he was pronounced dead a short time later.

A 26-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was also transported to Stroger Hospital in critical condition where he was also pronounced dead.

The other three men, 29, 35, and unknown age, also suffered gunshot wounds and were taken to area hospitals in good condition.

The second mass shooting happened when an unknown male fired shots -- wounding four people, in the 3800 block of West Monroe Street, in West Garfield Park Friday.

A 36-year-old woman was shot in the back and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition. Another woman, about 20, was shot once in the leg and was taken to the same hospital in good condition.
A 41-year-old man was shot once in the back and was taken to Stroger Hospital of Cook County in good condition. Another man, about 25, was shot multiple times in the back and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in serious condition.

Two women were shot after being caught in the crossfire between two men in Chinatown Friday night.

A 24-year-old woman was struck in the torso and transported to Stroger Hospital where she was pronounced dead. A 42-year-old woman suffered a gunshot wound to the hand, and a man, who was one of the offenders in the shooting, was struck in his backside and was taken to the hospital in critical condition.

The age gap between the victims shot over the weekend has also increased with the youngest victim, a 17-year-old girl, being shot and killed in a parking lot in Little Village Friday afternoon. The oldest victim, a 90-year-old man found shot in the abdomen in Lawndale Saturday morning.

This weekend, police have also been the target in crimes in the city...

 

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https://news.yahoo.com/portland-man-accused-punching-5-183151206.html
Portland man accused of punching 5-year-old Japanese girl and her dad re-arrested after court no-show

Carl Samson

Thu, July 7, 2022 at 11:31 AM
A man from Portland, Oregon, who is facing a slew of charges for allegedly attacking a Japanese family over the weekend has been re-arrested after failing to appear in court for his arraignment on Wednesday.

Dylan J. Kesterson, 34, was first arrested shortly after the alleged incident occurred along Portland’s Eastbank Esplanade on Saturday afternoon. Kesterson allegedly punched a 36-year-old man and his 5-year-old daughter because he thought they were Japanese, according to police.

The father, his daughter and his wife, who were visiting from California, were riding bikes at around 3:45 p.m. when Kesterson allegedly approached them and began yelling anti-Asian slurs. The male victim said Kesterson then hit him in the head “more than 50 times” before turning to his daughter and punching her helmet-protected head “numerous times.”...

 

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...ged-he-needs-to-be-off-the-streets/ar-AAZxRBL
Olympian Kim Glass speaks out after her suspected attacker is charged: 'He needs to be off the streets'

Paul Best - Wednesday
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"You guys are only hearing about me because I'm an Olympian," she continued. "And you guys haven't heard from the other victims of the other attacks that have been happening, repeatedly happening in this city, so they need to be vindicated and we can't drop the ball on this. We can't. Things have to change."

The suspected attacker, 51-year-old Semeon Tesfamariam, is accused of randomly throwing a 10-inch metal bolt at Glass's face while she was walking near a homeless camp in Los Angeles.

He was previously convicted of felony assaults in 2018 and 2019, but was out on parole when he allegedly attacked Glass.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...n-who-assaulted-olympian-kim-glass/ar-AAZDjH0

Exclusive: Victim describes terrifying memory of attack by same man who assaulted Olympian Kim Glass


CBSLA Staff - Friday

 

[Emily]

https://www.click2houston.com/news/...ets-cause-road-disturbance-complaints-to-hpd/
Bryce Newberry

Published: August 15, 2022 at 9:25 PM
Updated: August 15, 2022 at 10:18 PM

Tags: ATV, Houston Police

‘This is absolute insanity’: Dozens of ATVs, 4-wheelers, dirt bikes swarming Houston streets cause road disturbance, complaints to HPD

A Montrose woman had to stop and pull over on the side of Alabama Street after being surrounded by ATVs and dirt bikes while on her way to the grocery store Sunday.

“This is absolute insanity,” she said in a video she recorded during the encounter. “Nobody can go anywhere.”

She asked us not to identify her, sharing an experience she’s never seen during her more than three years in Houston.

“They kind of just took over all the lanes of traffic [and] were doing wheelies, and swerving around,” she said.

Another group was captured on video going through downtown last week.

“It looked like 100 of them out there, so it looked like something out of a movie,” said Frank Lopez, who shot the video from his third-floor office at Rusk and Milam Streets. “We want to keep it safe, to where, you know, where when someone brings up the Skyline District, they’re not like, oh, ‘That’s where that thing happened with those riders.’”

He said he’s starting to see the groups of riders more often...

 

[Emily]

The rampage started before dawn. A mother of 5 waiting for her bus to take her to her medical office job was killed, along with a young man and another woman, both at different locations. The survivor and his dog were lucky to have neighbors that ran off the shooter.

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/76-...shooting-spree
76-year-old man, dog survive after being shot during random Detroit shooting spree

By Jessica Dupnack and Amber Ainsworth
Published August 29, 2022 5:34PM
Crime and Public Safety
FOX 2 Detroit

DETROIT (FOX 2) - John Palik was walking his dog Sunday morning when a 19-year-old man going on a random shooting spree in Detroit opened fire.

More: Shooting spree suspect arrested after tip from 'somebody close' to him

The man was approaching random victims on the west side.

"I start moving faster and all of the sudden two shots come out they hit Kingston, and he dropped to the ground," Palik said.

After Kingston was shot, Palik, a former military police officer, was hit in the groin...

 

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https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...ld-city-taxes/
Fed up with homelessness, Castro District merchants threaten to withhold city taxes
By Shawn Chitnis
August 26, 2022 / 8:53 PM / CBS San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) -- Members of the Castro Merchants Association in San Francisco said they may be willing to stop paying local taxes and license fees if city agencies do not improve their response to people in need which, they say, has allowed an increase crime over the past four years.

"It's gotten to a point now where it's gotten really tough for any small business owner to successfully run a business in the Castro and this is our call out to the city to do something," said Dave Karraker, co-president of Castro Merchants Association and co-owner of MX3 Fitness. "Every year we pay the city taxes and we pay the city licensing fees to operate a business in this city and, if they're unable to fulfill their obligations for that money we're paying, then we're going to take action."...