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Police & Fire
Open Season: One Dead, Four Wounded In Paterson East Side Shootings
A 42-year-old Paterson man was killed and four other people wounded in a trio of shootings on the city's east side over less than 36 hours. That makes roughly 80 people struck by gunfire in the Silk City this year – 16 of whom have died. Nearby uniformed officers who heard the sound of gunshots found the body of James Timmons in the street on Rosa Parks Boulevard near Franklin Street around 10:45 p.m. Simmons was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 11:11 p.m., Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora sa…
Police & Fire
Union County Man Who Thought He Was Buying Car In Paterson Shot, Robbed Instead
A Union County man who went to Paterson thinking he was buying a car got shot in the leg and robbed instead, city police said. The 41-year-old Kenilworth victim drove himself to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center shortly before 10:30 p.m. Saturday, responders said. He’d been shot in the area of 9th Avenue and East 28th Street, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint announcement. His injury wasn’t life-threatening, they said. They didn’t address an unconfirmed report that city police had a suspect in custody. Barely a half…
Police & Fire
Four Killed In Shooting At Notorious Paterson Streetcorner ID'd
UPDATE: Authorities identified four men slain in a late-night shooting Tuesday at a notorious Paterson street corner, raising this year's death total from gun violence in the Silk City to 15 -- only one fewer than all of last year. Nearly 60 others have been wounded by gunfire in Paterson this year. Of the 19 homicide victims in Paterson all of last year, 16 were shot. The total shot and killed in the city in 2018 was eight. Tuesday's victims -- all Paterson residents -- were gunned down in a hail of bullets at the corner of Carroll and Harrison streets around 11 p.m. Those killed: …
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Paterson Explodes: Four Killed, Three Wounded In Hail Of Gunfire
UPDATE: Authorities identified four men slain in a late-night shooting Tuesday at a notorious Paterson street corner, raising this year's death total from gun violence in the Silk City to 15 -- only one fewer than all of last year. Nearly 60 others have been wounded by gunfire in Paterson this year. Of the 19 homicide victims in Paterson all of last year, 16 were shot. The total shot and killed in the city in 2018 was eight. Tuesday's victims -- all Paterson residents -- were gunned down in a hail of bullets at the corner of Carroll and Harrison streets around 11 p.m. Those killed: Al …
Police & Fire
Another Gun Bust: 29 Taken Off Street By Paterson Police So Far This Month
Make that 29 guns seized by Paterson police just this month – a rate of nearly three a day – this time overnight in a notorious neighborhood. Street Crime Detectives Mohammad Bashir, Gilot Castor and Yamil Pimienta spotted Koshawn James, 26, of Paterson on Godwin Avenue near Carroll Street holding a heavy object in the pocket of his hoodie shortly before 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. As they got out of their vehicle to investigate, James “turned and began running east on Godwin Avenue, discarding a large black revolver to the ground while fleeing,” Spezial…
Police & Fire
Paterson PD: Detectives Chase Down Gunmen At Housing Complex Notorious For Drugs, Violence
Paterson detectives captured two men with guns following a predawn foot chase in one of the city’s deadliest neighborhoods, authorities said. That makes 25 weapons seized by the department in just the past month, during a time when three victims were killed by gunfire in less than two weeks. Street Crime Detectives Yamil Pimienta, John Traynor, Mustafa Dombayci and Mohammad Bashir found 100 or so people drinking and playing loud music in the area of Carroll and Governor Streets around 1 a.m. A man in the group handed a gun to another man who then put it into a bag as both bolted into the …
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Nabs Accused Paterson Shooter In Bronx
New York City police captured a Paterson man who authorities said shot a Bronx man the night before. The 24-year-old victim went to Bronx Lebanon Hospital in New York City after he was shot shortly before 3 a.m. Monday near the corner of Park Avenue and Carroll Street in Paterson, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and city Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint announcement. Investigators identified the shooter as David Polanco, 33, whom the NYPD took into custody at the 52nd Precinct station house on Webster Avenue early Tuesday, they said. Paterson detectives charged Pola…
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NEW
Video
: Agitated Gunman Repeatedly Points Weapon At Paterson Police Before He's Shot
WATCH: A gunman who refused to drop his weapon in a confrontation with Paterson police raised the firearm a final time and was shot Thursday afternoon, video taken from above shows. Luan Agolli, 42, of Pequannock lifts the gun several times, refusing to drop it, as he paces the intersection of Carroll and Harrison streets surrounded by officers just after 4:15 p.m., the video obtained by Daily Voice shows (see above). At times he holds the weapon with both hands and points it at the converging officers. "I'm giving him all these opportunities," says an officer in another video taken from …
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Update
(NEW
Video
): Gunman Refusing To Drop Weapon Shot, Killed By Police In Paterson
WATCH: A gunman who refused to drop his weapon in a confrontation with Paterson police raised the firearm a final time and was shot Thursday afternoon, video taken from above shows. Luan Agolli, 42, of Pequannock lifts the gun several times, refusing to drop it, as he paces the intersection of Carroll and Harrison streets surrounded by officers just after 4:15 p.m., the video obtained by Daily Voice shows (see above). At times he holds the weapon with both hands and points it at the converging officers. "I'm giving him all these opportunities," says an officer in another video taken from t…
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Paterson PD: Hooker Who Hightailed It Chased Down
Picture, if you will, a woman in fishnets and high heels running from police and you have some idea of what happened in Paterson this weekend. Responding to complaints about street walkers hitting up passing drivers and pedestrians for sex, city police hit Van Houten Street in the middle of the afternoon Saturday and arrested two women on prostitution charges, authorities said. Members of the department’s Vice/ABC unit ended up taking two working woman into custody, Public Safety Director Jerry Speziale said. Arrested in the area of Van Houten and East 18 streets was Charlotte A. Best, 40,…
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In Cold Blood: Paterson Dealer Gets 40 Years For Killing NY Buyer, Wounding Companion
A 22-year-old Paterson man who shot a New York State drug buyer dead and pumped four bullets into a woman who was with him will be in his 60s before he’ll be eligible for parole after being sentenced Friday. Jurors in September 2018 convicted Zamaire Barden of murder, attempted murder and weapons offenses following a trial in Paterson that lasted nearly a week. Barden, who was 17 at the time, sold drugs to Dennis Gillespie of Warwick in April 2015, Senior Assistant Prosecutor Allan Nawrocki told the jury. After contacting him for more, Gillespie returned the next day with Rachel Knight, Na…
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Paterson Man, 45, Slain At One Of City's Deadliest Corners
A 45-year-old Paterson man was gunned down at one of North Jersey’s deadliest street corners Monday night, authorities confirmed. Robert Covington was taken to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center after the shooting at the intersection of Governor and Carroll streets shortly after 9 p.m. He was pronounced dead a little over a half-hour later, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Paterson Police Chief Ibrahim Baycora said in a joint release. They didn’t say whether they had anyone in custody or a suspect or suspects identified. They did ask that anyone who might have witnessed t…
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