In Other Brooklyn News

Brooklyn police launched an urgent search Tuesday after a man in his 40s slipped from custody following an overnight arrest for assault.

Surveillance images released by the NYPD show two women wanted in connection with the June 28 assault of an MTA employee at the New Lots Avenue subway station in Brooklyn.

The owner of NZ Beauty Studio said she was in the back of her salon doing pedicures when the thief snuck in and snatched her purse.

The FDNY says there were no reported injuries.

Two young men were wounded in a shooting near a public high school in Brownsville early on Saturday morning, police reported.

Parents had contacted the local council member in the past to report people with knives in the Bensonhurst park.

A man was taken into custody after allegedly breaking into a Fort Greene public school overnight and stealing nearly $4,000 worth of electronics, police said.

A 36-year-old woman was killed Wednesday night near the Barclays Center after being shot in the head during an argument, police said.

According to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, the man behind the June 12 arson at a lot along Dekalb Avenue and Central Avenue has been identified as 21-year-old Jakhi Lodgson-McCray.

A 26-year-old woman was injured and robbed during a violent encounter inside a Brooklyn subway station early on June 22, leading to the arrest of a local man, according to the NYPD.