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The NYPD believe they’ve found the person behind the brazen shooting outside a UnitedHealthcare shareholder meeting in Midtown Manhattan.  The NYPD released an image of the suspect in the fatal Midtown shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. -Photo by NYPD This article originally appeared in The City.  By Gwynne Hogan Follow @x NEW YORK - NYPD officials say the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is in custody in Pennsylvania after evading arrest for more than five days.  An employee at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Penn., recognized the suspected gunman from photos that had been circulated widely by police and called local authorities. He was identified as 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch at a press conference at City Hall Monday afternoon with Mayor Eric Adams.  “He is believed to be our person of interest in the brazen targeted murder of Brian Thompson,” Tisch said.  P...

File Photo By Dan Gesslein  Manhattan Voice  December 9, 2022  MANHATTAN - A body found yesterday at a Greenwich Village train station has been classified a homicide. Now cops are asking for the public’s help to catch a killer.  The medical examiner had determined the victim found on a subway platform had indeed been murdered after examining several lacerations on the victim’s torso. At around midnight on December 8, cops responded to a 911 call to the subway station at West 4 Street and 6 Avenue. Officers were investigating a call of an unconscious male on the platform. Cops found the unconscious male near the stairwell ramp area of the subway platform. EMS pronounced the man dead at the scene. Investigators said lacerations were found on the victim’s torso. Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The...

Three connected buildings on Valentine Avenue is apparently a group home for the disabled, where one resident has been charged in a 2021 homicide in Manhattan in a photo taken on Sunday, October 30, 2022.--Photo by David Greene By David Greene  Manhattan Voice  November 17, 2022 MANHATTAN - Nearly 11-months after a double shooting / homicide in the Inwood section of Manhattan, police have announced the arrest of a third suspect in the crime. On November 16, police announced the arrest of Blake Martinez, 22, of 10th Avenue in Manhattan, who was charged with murder, robbery, assault and criminal posession of a weapon. The arrest comes a little more than three-weeks after police announced the arrests of two Bronx men, Luis Rodriguez, 28, of Valentine Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights and Jeremy Lopez, 21, of Waldo Avenue in Kingsbridge, who were both charged in the killing. Police say the three men took part in the crime that took place at 10 p.m. on Decemb...