Elderly woman found fatally stabbed in apartment

  Eyewitness NewsNEW YORK (WABC) -- An elderly woman was discovered dead in her Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, apartment Friday morning.

The Medical Examiner's office says that the 85-year-old woman was stabbed several times in the neck and torso.

The woman was found by her brother on the floor at around 7:40 a.m. She was lying against a couch and had a towel around her head.

Doctors discovered a puncture wound to the back of her neck.

No arrests were made and there did not immediately appear to be a motive.

There was no sign of forced entry.

A spokeswoman says an investigation is underway as to how the body was reported to their office, and why this was initially thought to be not suspicious.

A full autopsy will be done on Saturday.

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Man fatally shoots, stabs man who shot him

  Eyewitness NewsNEW YORK (WABC) -- A Bronx man is believed to have gunned down the suspect who shot him in the leg when he opened the door of his Parkchester apartment.

The 23-year-old man was apparently shot in the leg after opening the door of his Unionport Road home just after 1 a.m.

Authorities say he then grabbed and knife and a gun and returned fire, shooting and stabbing the suspect.

The suspect was pronounced dead, and the resident initially shot in the leg was in stable condition at Jacobi Medical Center.

Marijuana and other drug paraphernalia were found in the apartment.

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Woman fatally struck by sanitation truck in NYC

  Eyewitness NewsNEW YORK -- Police say a 25-year-old woman was struck and killed by a city sanitation truck while crossing a street in Brooklyn.

Police say it happened just after 7 p.m. Wednesday on Broadway near Driggs Avenue in the Williamsburg section of the borough. The woman, identified as Katherine Yun, of Syosset, was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Police say no crime is suspected. The investigation is continuing.

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Mom injured, daughter fatally shot in Queens

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Gunfire has killed a daughter and wounded a mother inside an apartment building in the Astoria section of Queens.

Guerino Annarumma left the 114th precinct in handcuffs, sources say, to help police find the gun that was used to shoot his estranged wife and to kill her daughter.

He is the lone suspect and police and neighbors say he has a history of violence and threats against his wife.

"We saw him drive, I ignored him," a neighbor said.

But the courts did not.

"This as the order of protection I have," said Helene Sherman, Olga Annarumma's divorce attorney.

Helene Sherman is Olga's divorce attorney.

There were two orders of protection issued against Guerino Annarumma regarding his wife.

. "She wanted nothing, she would just say 'he's crazy,'" Sherman said.

A neighbor threw a Piece of cardboard over the bloodstains left after 57-year-old Olga Borodina Annarumma, Guerino's estranged wife, and her daughter 25-year-old Valeria Kuzmina Lowery were shot at their home Monday morning.

Neighbors say Guerino Annarumma had a violent and contentious relationship with the two.

Guerino didn't hide his contempt or his intentions.

In several blogs, he ranted about the two: "God will make you pay," he wrote in one.

And in another, "Remember one thing. Whatever goes around comes around. One day it will come to you and your mother, I don't have nothing to lose," he wrote, "You are going to pay for whatever you did. I don't play no games," he wrote cryptically, "Good luck. Bye bye."

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4 shot, 3 fatally, in 3 unrelated shootings in Newark

  Eyewitness NewsNEWARK (WABC) -- Four people were shot, three fatally, in a span of less than an hour in Newark overnight Tuesday.

The string of shootings, apparently unrelated, marked the end of the July 4th holiday weekend and came as the city battles its annual summer crime uptick with less officers on the force.

In the first, an off-duty female correction officer was fatally shot at her Columbia Street house just after 12:30 a.m.

Police say 37-year-old Katrina Owens was attending a barbeque with a male friend when the domestic dispute occurred. Owens is a married mother of three who became a corrections officer in 2003. At the time of her death, she was employed at New Jersey State Prison in Trenton.

Within 10 minutes, 21-year-old Shaun Miller was fatally shot in the backyard of his home at 169 Elizabeth Avenue. There was speculation drugs may have been involved, but his family says that is not true and that his death is a tragedy because he leaves behind a 7-month-old daughter.

In the next 10 minutes, two people - a man and a woman - were each shot multiple times in the chest at 349 Osborne Terrace.

The man, identified as 24-year-old Marques Robinson, later died. The woman, believed to be his girlfriend, remains in critical condition at the hospital.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker released the following statement:

"In 45 minutes last night we had three tragic shootings. We mourn for the victims. Newark will not be deterred from our central mission to drive crime down. I remain grateful for all the many pulling together this summer. We are making progress. Violence is still down significantly from last summer. We have work to do. Our challenge really isn't the violent actions of a few bad people but the stark inaction of too many good people in Newark."

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Man fatally stabbed on Seaside Heights boardwalk

  Eyewitness NewsSEASIDE HEIGHTS (WABC) -- A packed Jersey shore on Memorial Day led to a deadly stabbing, with police still searching for a killer.

A fight broke out on the boardwalk in Seaside Heights just after 8 p.m. Monday. During the fight, an unidentified man was stabbed.

He later died at the hospital.

The incident happened just blocks from the Big Top Arcade, as well as the house used in MTV's "Jersey Shore" reality show. (Copyright ©2011 WABC-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.) Get more New Jersey News »

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