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Bergen Sheriff's Officers Capture Carjacking NYC Fugitive Wanted For Shooting Pregnant GF Bergen Sheriff's Officers Capture Carjacking NYC Fugitive Wanted For Shooting Pregnant GF
Bergen Sheriff's Officers Capture Carjacking NYC Fugitive Wanted For Shooting Pregnant GF Bergen County sheriff's officers captured a New York City fugitive after authorities said he shot his pregnant girlfriend and then carjacked an SUV at gunpoint from a 72-year-old driver outside a local 7-Eleven. Ex-con Dennis Fredericks, 28, of the Bronx fled to New Jersey after the NYPD said he shot the woman in the neck during an argument in a Lower East Side apartment around 8:45 p.m. Thursday. Around 11:30 p.m., he approached an elderly driver who was sitting in a Toyota Highlander in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven on Palisades Avenue in Bogota, borough Police Sgt. Geoffrey Cole sai…

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Bergen County Man Fatally Struck Fleeing Crash On Manhattan's FDR Drive: Police Bergen County Man Fatally Struck Fleeing Crash On Manhattan's FDR Drive: Police
Bergen County Man Fatally Struck Fleeing Crash On Manhattan's FDR Drive: Police A 50-year-old Bergen County man was fatally struck attempting to flee the scene of an accident by running across Manhattan's FDR Drive early Saturday morning, authorities said. Heward Velez of Moonachie side-swiped a Jeep in his Honda Civic near the 96th Street exit before taking off on foot across the busy highway -- when he was hit by a Cadillac SUV at approximately 5 a.m., the NYPD said, Velez and the other driver pulled over to the shoulder when Velez attempted to cross the median to the southbound lanes, authorities said. That's when the SUV hit Velez, who was pronounced dead at Metrop…

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by Cecilia Levine