Jay Conway, 33, of Leicester Walk, Salford, had evaded capture from two undercover Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officers who saw him hand drugs to customers in Albert Park. He was spotted with the firearm as he was chased, and aimed the 9mm slide action pistol in the direction of Pc Dan Clayton as he rolled onto the floor when felled by a Taser discharge.
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Michelle Sadio, 44, had been attending a wake at the River of Life Pentecostal Church in Harlesden when she was fatally shot in the back, lung and shoulder on 14 December 2024. She died at the scene. Perry Allen-Thomas, 27, Shaquille Sutherland, 26, Amir Salem, 19, all from Wembley, and Tahjin Sommersall, 19, from Feltham, are on trial at the Old Bailey.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly stabbing a Brooklyn school safety agent as she tried to break up a brawl between two middle schoolers, police said. The teen is accused of knifing the agent, a 53-year-old woman, in her calf as she intervened in the 3:10 p.m. Wednesday scuffle on Beverley Road near Ralph Avenue, steps from IS 285, the Meyer Levin Middle School for the Performing Arts in East Flatbush, police said.
A situation with unruly teens on their bicycles turned scary on Saturday afternoon, as KTVU reports that a group of minors beat and robbed a man on the 900 block of Beach Street in Fisherman's Wharf, near the SF Maritime National Historical Park. The attack reportedly occurred at around 2:50 pm Saturday, and was initiated, of all reasons, because the man apparently told the teens to slow down on their bicycles.
Three men were hit by bullets, including a 30-year-old victim who'd been shot in the head, and a fourth man was stabbed in the armpit during three separate nightclub attacks in Brooklyn and the Bronx within three hours early Saturday, police said. The bloodshed began at around 1:45 a.m. when a fight broke out inside Tulum Brooklyn, a late-night restaurant and lounge on Broadway near Hart St. in Bedford Stuyvesant.