Former Brooklyn High School Basketball Player Charged

Jayvaughn Pinkston, a former Brooklyn High School basketball standout is charged with two counts of simple assault and?harassment?after allegedly getting in a fight outside a fraternity house at Villanova University, New York Post reports. Pinkston became angered when he was locked inside a laundry room while having a romantic encounter with a girl, eyewitnesses say. Allegedly a fraternity brother propped a chair against the laundry-room door.?”He [Pinkston] was [mad], but nothing became of it at the time. He was just yelling,” an eyewitness said. Pinkston waited outside for a ride and two fraternity brothers came out to taunt him, witnesses say. Pinkston allegedly turned and punched the first fraternity brother. Someone else presumably punched the second fraternity brother. Pinkston is a 6-foot-7 forward for Villanova University and was a McDonald’s All-American at Bishop Loughlin. The team opens its season tonight and will be without Pinkston.

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Brooklyn Mother Charged with Murder in Death of 4-Year-Old Child

The mother of a malnourished 4-year-old child, who only weighed 18 pounds at the time of her death, was charged with murder in the second degree.? Carlotta Brett-Pierce, 30, called police to report that her daughter, Marchella, was unconscious. She is also charged with manslaughter in the first degree after the medical examiner ruled the child’s death a homicide. The child was suffering from drug poisoning, injuries, malnutrition and dehydration, according to the medical examiner. [NYTimes]

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Long Island teen charged with attempted murder of a police officer

A Long Island 17 year old who authorities say shot by a police officer three times by an exchange of fire in a Brooklyn based on Sunday night was charged with attempted murder of a police officer and the criminal use of a weapon, reports the New York Times.

The officer and the suspect was shot three times also were in stable condition.

The teenager, Elijah Foster-Bey, aged 17, Port Washington, in the County of Nassau had stayed with an uncle in East New York for five months more effectively commute to her job as a Messenger of bicycling in Manhattan.

Sunday evening, Foster-Bey was a bike South East New York.Comme Bradford street car unmarked, he asked for would have been his bicycle on the sidewalk, Foster-Bey ran in a townhouse three floors to 454, street Bradford, ignoring orders officers to stop, police said. Three police officers jumped out of the car and followed in the building.

Department's chief spokesman Paul Browne said time that police officers were members of anti-crime unit 75th precinct and they were investigating a series of robbery on the bike in the neighborhood.

On the second floor of the building, Foster-Bey turned and fired at least twice, Browne dit.Il ran on the third floor and turned to shoot again as officers fired back.Agent Richard Ramirez, 29, was struck twice in the right leg and bottom right that it reaches the top third étage.Son blocked bullet-proof vest shot, belly landing said once in the abdomen of the police.Foster-Bey fired six until he missed bullets, and then he was thrown weapon fire in stages, according to the police.Partner and a fourth Ramirez subdued him and he handcuffed agent, police said.

Ramirez was recovering Kings County Hospital Center .the ' teenager was at the University Medical Center and Brookdale hospital.

Ellen Cross, mother of a young boy, said his son has never been a firearm or a locker judiciaire.Elle said that the 17-year old had been previously published four tickets for his bicycle on trottoir.Selon police, he was also a previous judgment, which has been sealed.

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