NY.- Tragic events, including deaths, injuries, run overs and beatings against people, occurred on the eve and the celebration of “Good night” In this city.
Mention can be made of the cases of a man shot by unknown persons on 10 avenue and 207 street in the Upper Manhattan. Three young men, presumably Dominican, were injured during a fire that occurred in the 560 W 163rd Street building in Upper Manhattan.
Also, in Staten Island two minors died when their home caught fire and four other minors were seriously injured.
A man who was a few meters from the famous Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center-Manhattan, attended by tens of thousands of people daily and at all hours, was injured with a knife in his face, being transferred to the hospital, without first causing a ” escape” among the crowd of people who were close to the incident.
Also, two Swedish tourists were robbed at gunpoint on Christmas Day, in the morning hours, inside a Brooklyn subway station.
An African American entered the bar “Teddy’s Bar & Grill” with a pit bull dog and a baseball bat, located at 2171 Second Avenue with 112th Street in the Harlem sector, attacking three people, then fleeing the place.
A man was fatally shot at 165th Street and Jamaica Avenue in Queens. Likewise, another 45-year-old man was shot twice on “Christmas Eve” in front of 35-20 103rd Street in the same county.
Pediatrician Bruce Maurice Henry, 60, was found dead with stab wounds in a park in Harlem-Manhattan.
A Rhode Island man tried to smuggle an unarmed .22-caliber handgun through JFK airport in peanut butter jars while also having a magazine full of bullets, authorities said.
Three injured policemen. One stabbed on 212th street with Dekalb avenue, in The Bronx, when he responded to an emergency call. Another was shot when he went to a domestic violence flame on Gates Avenue in Brooklyn; and the third was hit with a stolen car, driven by two teenagers, who, upon being arrested, threw the vehicle at 29 E. Street with Foster Avenue in Brooklyn.
A Jet Blue plane caught fire inside when arriving at JFK International Airport from the island of Barbados, when a computer caught fire, having to evacuate 133 passengers through the emergency exits. Seven of them were injured and the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
