In Other Brooklyn News

Hidalgo, who was born in the U.S., grew up in Mexico and had recently moved back to New York City to make a better life for his wife and 1-year-old son.

The incident on Pitkin Avenue on Saturday claimed a man’s life.

Residents say weeks of unswept dry leaves contributed to a Saturday morning fire that destroyed three parked cars in the neighborhood.

A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for a violent incident in which he pulled a kitchen knife on a subway train and stabbed a stranger in the back.

Police say a woman was found dead with a wire wrapped around her neck Wednesday evening inside an East New York apartment.

Halloween got off to a grim start in Brooklyn when two men were injured in a brazen daylight shooting, authorities confirmed.

Violent crime continued to trend downward in Brooklyn in October after two promising months, according to the latest NYPD statistics, but gun violence and rape continued to present major issues in the borough.

A 42-year-old man was stabbed to death on a Brooklyn street early Wednesday by a killer who then barricaded himself in his nearby apartment, police said.

A man was stabbed and killed at the Coney Island–Stillwell Avenue station around 11:20pm on Tuesday.

Pedestrians do not have the right of way while jaywalking, however.