Gravesend

A house of worship in Brooklyn was the scene of an attempted kidnapping, according to police, and the person who prevented the situation from becoming far worse was the child’s mother.

42-year-old Yossi Mayer in custody tonight after attempting to kidnap a 9-year-old boy inside the Hesed Le Avraham Synagogue. Melissa Colorado reports.

A 19-year-old teenager was gunned down in the upstairs parking lot of BJ’s Wholesale Club in Bath Beach, Myles Miller reports.

A 19-year-old man died in an armed robbery in the parking lot of a Brooklyn BJ’s store late Thursday, authorities say, with another teenager facing murder and other charges. Investigators responding to reports of a shooting in the wholesaler’s Shore Parkway lot, in Gravesend, around 10:15 p.m. found Dereck Chen, of Bensonhurst, shot in the face and shoulder. He...

A man was shot and killed while he was inside a Brooklyn Chinese food restaurant late Wednesday afternoon, police said.

NBC New York’s David Ushery, Jonathan Dienst, Jennifer Cunnington, Ida Siegal, Checkey Beckford and Anjali Hemphill have team coverage of the shooting that left 10 people struck by bullets, and nearly a dozen more injured.

Police investigating the Brooklyn subway shooting are searching for a person of interest who rented a U-Haul van — which they were able to quickly find thanks to an observant resident.

A witness who was in his Jeep at the time captured the deadly showdown between him and police on cellphone video. More than a dozen gunshots could be heard ringing out.

Police say they’ve identified the man who was shot and killed by police on the Belt Parkway on Thursday night. Myles Miller reports.

According to investigators, highway officers initially tried to pull Brian Astarita over for speeding near Bay 8th Street just after 4 p.m., but he rear-ended an officer and continued heading east in a Jeep.

A witness who was in his Jeep at the time captured the deadly showdown between him and police on cellphone video. More than a dozen gunshots could be heard ringing out.

Police say the driver got out of his SUV and grabbed a gun, so officers opened fire at the man. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Police pulled over a vehicle on the Belt Parkway, and an armed suspect was shot and killed, according to police sources. Traffic on the highway was backed up for miles, as part of it was fully shut down.

A man was shot in the leg by NYPD officers on a section of the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, shutting down the highway and causing miles-long backups in both directions.

Good Samaritans and members of TV mob show “Gravesend” acted quickly to free the 14-year-old who was struck by the out-of-control vehicle as he was walking his dog.

The cast and crew of “Graves End” rescue a boy who was hit by an SUV while walking his dog. Gaby Acevedo reports.