Ozone Park

A 22-year-old Queens man was sentenced to nearly two decades behind bars in connection to a botched shootout that left an unintended target of a shootout dead in 2020, the local district attorney’s office said. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Friday that Nazieer Basir was sentenced to 17 years in prison followed by 5 years of post-release supervision for…

The shooter allegedly behind what prosecutors call a “botched” attack on a group of men seated in a parked car nearly three years ago, has pleaded guilty of firing the fatal shot that killed his so-called accomplice. Queens officials said Nazieer Basir pleaded guilty in court Thursday to the Dec. 7, 2020, killing of Royhessney Sintjago. The 22-year-old was shot…

In an evening that featured more bullets and bloodshed for two NYC neighborhoods, 10 people in Harlem and Queens were shot — including four teen bystanders in a park — in separate incidents that spanned just a matter of hours, police said.

Three shootings across the tri-state area tonight saw seven people hurt and one killed. Anjali Hemphill reports.

Police released surveillance video of the suspect.

Police released surveillance footage of the suspect in the Ozone Park attack.

Cops are looking for a man they say ambushed a 29-year-old woman as she walked in Queens over the weekend, choking her and throwing her to the ground before dragging her into a small park and sexually abusing her, authorities say. The woman was walking near 118th Street and North Conduit Avenue in South Ozone Park around 6 a.m. Saturday…

Police were back at a Queens home on Sunday as the investigation into human remains found in the basement continues.

A third person has been recovered from the Queens residence where a fast-moving fire burned a total of five private dwellings Friday afternoon, fire department officials said. The fire prompted a 5-alarm response from the FDNY, who responded to the Ozone Park structures on 125th Street around 2:30 p.m. The initial fire spread due to strong winds, damaging at least…

The hot weather and strong winds made fighting the fire much more difficult to fight, and caused the flames to spread to other buildings, even across the street. Hours later, two people were found dead in a basement apartment in the building where the fire started. NBC New York’s Anjali Hemphill reports.

High temperatures and strong winds helped fuel a fast-moving fire that damaged five homes in Queens. NBC New York’s Anjali Hemphill reports.

At least two people died as a fast-moving fire set five private dwellings ablaze Friday afternoon in Queens, in blaze that had firefighters working quickly to get control of to prevent the flames from threatening even more nearby homes. The fire prompted a 5-alarm response from the FDNY, who responded to the Ozone Park structures on 125th Street around 2:30…

Anna Torres, the mother of an NYPD officer, was killed when she opened her door in the middle of the afternoon — allegedly by a man who drove to a police precinct and got out of his SUV with the gun still in his hand.

A 41-year-old Queens man has been arrested on murder and weapons possession charges in the death of a 51-year-old woman from the same borough who was found shot in the head in her own home Wednesday afternoon, police said Thursday. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

A 41-year-old Queens man has been arrested on murder and weapons possession charges in the death of a 51-year-old woman from the same borough who was found shot in the head in her own home, police said Thursday. Giuseppe Canzani is accused of killing Anna Torres in her 109th Avenue home in Ozone Park Wednesday afternoon. Torres was found with…

The 51-year-old woman was killed in the doorway of her own home in Ozone Park, and a suspect is now in custody. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

A woman was shot and killed inside her home in a quiet, family-friendly section of Queens Wednesday afternoon, police said.

The man who allegedly killed a 51-year-old woman in her Queens home has turned himself in, police said. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

Two people have been arrested and charged with attempted murder after multiple students were stabbed in a fight outside of a Queens high school, police said.

Three teenage students were stabbed in a fight that apparently broke out across the street from their high school in Queens Tuesday, police said.