Deaths
Gibson & Supreme Court of Bronx County Host 9/11 Day of Remembrance
UPDATE Demonstrators Protest NYPD after Eric Duprey’s Death in Fordham Manor
Around thirty demonstrators took to the streets in Fordham Manor on Friday, Sept. 1, to protest the death of Eric Duprey, 30. According to updates from both the Office of the New York Attorney General (AG) investigations team and the NYPD, Duprey died following an NYPD operation in Fordham Manor on Aug. 23.
Man, 27, Dead following Moped Accident at Southern Blvd & Bronx River Parkway
Jeremiah Ryan Gets 15 Years to Life in Prison for Fatal Shooting of Angellyh Yambo
Jeremiah Ryan, who was charged last year with the 2022 murder of innocent bystander and high school student, Angellyh Yambo, 16, in the Mott Haven section of The Bronx, as well as the attempted murder of two of her friends as they walked home from school together, was sentenced on Friday, Sept. 15, to 15 years to life in prison in relation to the gang-related incident. Ryan, who was 17 at the time of the unintended killing of Angellyh and the shooting of her friends, who were all hit in crossfire, pled guilty on Aug. 4 this year to second-degree murder, avoiding the need for a trial.
UPDATE Arrest Made after Two Women Shot in Mott Haven, 71-Year-Old Dies, 2nd Woman Injured
New Yorkers for Parks Kicks off 22nd Annual Daffodil Project Distribution Honoring Lives Lost to 9/11 and COVID-19
New Yorkers for Parks announced on Wednesday, Sept. 13, the distribution points and times for this year’s Daffodil Project which, as New York’s largest annual volunteer program, gives people across New York City daffodils to plant as a living memorial to honor New Yorkers lost to 9/11 and COVID-19. Since the Daffodil Project’s inception in 2001, over 400,000 volunteers have planted more than 9 million daffodil bulbs.
