Photo Credit: NY Daily News Three-year-old Gabriel Estevez desperately screamed for help as he dangled from a forth story window at Morrisania Apartments in the Bronx on Saturday, but none of his neighbors were able to save him and they watched in horror as he plummeted to his death, reports the NY Daily News.[1] “He was screaming for help. By the time we got across the street he had already fell,” said neighbor Frank White, 33, who jumped a fence to reach the child. Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook! Bystanders rushed to Gabriel’s aid after he landed in a grassy area. White said he pulled grass from the boy’s mouth and gave him CPR, inducing only a single breath from the dying boy before another person tried CPR and an ambulance arrived. Residents of the building near Yankee Stadium remembered Gabriel as charming and friendly. “I joke and laugh with him every day,” said neighbor Francisco Valdes, 21, who also tried to prevent the tragedy. “He’s my little man. I miss his l ...
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested for shooting his mother dead in their Bronx apartment on Wednesday and tossing her body on the street like a piece of trash afterwards, the New York Daily News reports[1]. He was charged with murder, manslaughter and gun possession charges. Darwin Jackson was taken into New York Police Department custody after he identified his mother’s body and spitting on the ground, according to witnesses at the crime scene. “He said, ‘Oh my God, that’s my mom,’ and he spit and walked away,” neighbor Sonia Carrion told the Daily News. “He actually spit.” Jackson was calm at the sight of his dead mother while his 7-year-old sister, Ashley, was “hysterical,” according to witnesses at the scene. The teen reportedly shot his mother, Tihesha Savage, 34, during an argument over his late nights out of the house, according to a report by the New York Post[2]. He then allegedly folded his mother’s body into a bin and dragged it down several flights of stairs from their f ...
