Police are still searching for two suspects they say were involved in the post-Christmas shooting of a 16-year-old boy. The unnamed victim, a Hispanic male, was shot once in the upper leg during a dispute with two other young men at the corner of Bainbridge Avenue and East 212th Street, in the early morning hours of Dec. 26. The injured boy was removed to Montefiore Hospital and remains in stable condition, according to a spokesman for the NYPD.

St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church, on University Avenue and Fordham Road, is still rebuilding this winter after a two-alarm fire severely damaged much of the parish’s front vestibule in March. “It’s progressing,” said Father Joseph Girone. “It looks like it could be done by Easter, and we’re looking forward to having something to really celebrate then.” Girone said Fire Department officials are still investigating the cause of the fire, which broke out the morning of March 5 and appeared to have been set deliberately because of its intensity and how it quickly it spread, Deputy Fire Chief Kevin Scanlon told the Norwood News at the time.

The year’s most mysterious and potentially disturbing death came on a Sunday morning in August. At St. Barnabas Hospital, Billy “Peanut” Murphy, a heavy drinking, big hearted, homeless man who often took refuge in Epiphany Lutheran Church on East 206th Street, succumbed to severe injuries suffered days earlier. Epiphany Lutheran Vicar Bob Rainis, a former NYPD homicide detective, read Murphy his last rites and came away convinced “Peanut” had been the victim of a savage beating that led to his death. But police continue to say Murphy’s death was not a homicide.