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The article reports that the same .22-caliber pistol was used in three killings in Brooklyn, New York accroding to police reports. It states that the incidents occured in different stores in the area including Valentino Fashion, Amazing 99 Cent and Up Deals and She She Boutique. It says that the victims, Mohamed Gebeli, Isaac Kadare and Vahidipour Rahmatollah, were all older men and of Middle Eastern origin.

The article reports on the charge of murder made by police against Naeem Davis for pushing Ki-Suck Han on railroad tracks that resulted to his death. Reverend Won Tae Cho says that Han's family could not sleep after seeing the photo, which was captured by a freelance photographer during the attack. It mentions that the crime raised debates among New Yorkers as many bystanders witnessed the crime. Police department's chief spokesman Paul J. Browne says that Davis implicates himself to the crime.

The article reports on the continued progress of utility companies on restoring the electrical service in New York and New Jersey after the Hurricane Sandy. It mentions that Long Island Power Authority reported that it had brought power back to about 95% of homes and business which were safe to receive electricity. Rena Esposito, spokeswoman for Public Service Electric & Gas Co. Inc. says that they have seen a good amount of progress concerning the power restoration.

A 3-year-old boy was shot in the leg in Brooklyn Sunday afternoon, apparently caught in a crossfire as two men exchanged shots nearby, the police said. The child was playing in a courtyard at 383 Pulaski Street in the Roosevelt housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant when the gun battle erupted about 4 p.m., according to the police. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A boy who the police say was bludgeoned to death by his mother, three men cut down in a car by the spray of an assault rifle and a shop owner fatally shot in his store were among seven people killed in New York between Friday night and early Saturday. The police said the boy's mother called 911 from her apartment on Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, just before 11 p.m. Friday, and said that she had killed her son and then swallowed pills. Officers found the boy, 7, lying in bed with ''bruising and lacerations'' to the back of his head, according to a police official. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A plainclothes New York City police officer was shot in the face on Tuesday night while pursuing a man at a Brooklyn housing project, but evaded life-threatening injuries in what the mayor called a remarkable stroke of good fortune. ''God, in this case, was kind,'' Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said in a news conference at Bellevue Hospital Center, where doctors removed the bullet from the skull of the officer, Kevin Brennan, 29, a six-year veteran from Long Island. He remained there Tuesday night in critical but stable condition. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Three days after a 34-year-old woman was killed by gunfire in Brooklyn as she picked up her child after school, detectives arrested the suspected gunman, his brother and a half-brother, the police said Tuesday. Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said that Andrew Lopez, 18, and two others were taken into custody on Monday by detectives at a home in eastern Queens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the results of the 2012 presidential election in New York. It mentions that the precinct on the Trump Tower in the Fifth Avenue is one of the precincts where presidential candidate Mitt Romney acquired at least 50% of the in-person vote. However, it states that Romney experienced a defeat against U.S. President Barack Obama in New York, saying that Obama acquired 100 percent in 91 out of 5,286 precincts of the city.

The article focuses on the arrest of the clothing dealer Salvatore Perrone, who is the primary suspect on the death of three shopkeepers in Brooklyn, New York City. It mentions that Perrone faces weapons charges, three counts of second-degree murder, and one count of first-degree murder. Furthermore, it discusses the investigation of the three killings involving Perrone. Moreover, it states that the neighbors of Perrone in Staten Island, New York City says that he has an odd behavior.

The article reports on the statement by the New York Police Department on accounts of its efforts in the Hurricane Sandy devastation on Staten Island, New York. It mentions that the department described how police officers urged residents on the said areas to leave their homes before the storm. It says that the statement was a response to the New York Times article concerning eight deaths in Midland Beach.

The article reports on the cause of the suicide of a teenage girl in Staten Island, New York, New York named Felicia Garcia was blamed on relentless bullying from the football players of Tottenville High School. It states that she was teased because of her piercings, living in foster care, and football players spreading sexual rumors about her. It cites that police are investigating her death. It also mentions that the childhood of Felicia is made up of loss and instability.

The violence that erupted during a music festival at Webster Hall in the East Village on Friday night lasted just a few minutes, but apparently it had been brewing for some time. When it was over, Michael Couls, the bass player of the Cro-Mags, an influential New York hard-core punk band, had been slashed with a knife, and one of the band's founders, Harley Flanagan, was under arrest after being caught by security, witnesses said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A woman was fatally shot by a plainclothes New York City police detective on Thursday after running a series of red lights in a stolen vehicle in Brooklyn, colliding head-on with a minivan, then scrambling to evade the police, the authorities said. The woman, 23, whose name was not immediately released, was not armed, said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that U.S. President Barack Obama visited areas in New York and neighborhood damage by Hurricane Sandy. Obama states that Americans are bound together and have help each other in creating solutions for the recovery of the state. Moreover, Obama assigned Shaun Donovan, the U.S. secretary of housing and urban development, to oversee federal recovery efforts in the New York area.

The article reports on the plan of New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to ask for $30 billion disaster aid to the federal government for the recovery of the affected areas from the Hurricane Sandy especially New York City. It mentions that the advisers of the governor have drafted an inventory for the needs of the city. Furthermore, it states the request of Cuomo would exceed the $12 billion disaster aid in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) which is available in Washington, D.C.

Investigators looking into the disappearance of Etan Patz began focusing recently on a handyman after a review of old case files showed that a concrete floor in a building in SoHo where he once had a workshop -- and that was on the route Etan took when he disappeared -- had looked uneven or was not all the same color, a person briefed on the case said on Friday. The explanation the handyman, Othniel Miller, gave shortly after Etan disappeared 33 years ago -- that work had been done beneath the floor -- led investigators to conduct a new round of interviews in recent weeks that led to the search and excavation of Mr. Miller's old work space this week, the person said. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]