Tag Archives: Crime
Bodega owners consider armed defense
Posted on 05. Jan, 2011 by Paul Bufano.
Would guns promote safety or violence? By Paul Bufano Last August a drunken brawl broke out at Sam’s Mini Market Deli and Grocery on Willis Avenue. At one point someone pulled a gun. The bodega’s manager Amar Alseid decided he’d had enough. He wants a gun of his own. Alseid is one of a growing [...]
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Mott Haven march denounces gun violence
Posted on 13. Jul, 2009 by Joe Hirsch.
By Joe Hirsch news@motthavenherald.com Naisha Pearson was just 10 years old when she was gunned downed in Saw Mill Park on East 139th Street. She was playing at a Labor Day block party in 2005 when a stray bullet struck her. Soundslide by Maria Clark Her killer, a 20-year-old stranger named Rene Bonilla, was shooting [...]
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Buy-back takes an arsenal off Bronx streets
Posted on 02. Jun, 2009 by Bernard L. Stein.
By Azriel James Relph azriel.james.relph@gmail.com When you subtract nearly a thousand guns from the arsenals of residents, what do you get? Safer Bronx streets, say the organizers of the Fourth Annual Mother’s Day Walk Against Gun Violence. In April, the most successful gun buy-back since the New York City Police Department and the Bronx District [...]
