34-year-old Aaron Alexis, the suspected gunman in the mass shooting that left 12 dead and many more injured at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, was born in Queens, and was seen as a quiet person
Glafira Rosales, a fradulent art dealer, pleaded guilty on Monday to masterminding a $80 million scheme in which she pawned off 63 fake works to two Manhattan salons, including the now defunct Knoedler Gallery. The pieces had actually been created by a struggling Queens artist over a 15-year period, and not by well-known 20th Century Expressionists, as she claimed.
The United Nations has confirmed in a report that chemical weapons were used "unequivocally and objectively," which Secretary General Ban Ki Moon constituted as a "war crime" on Monday, as reported by BBC News. The UN, however did not attribute blame who used the weapons in the Syrian civil war.
After NYPD officers saw a man had been weaving erratically and blocking traffic just before 10 p.m. on Saturday night near the Port Authority Bus Terminal at 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue, they believed he reached for his pocket to grab a weapon. At that moment, the two officers fired three shots, missing him, but struck a 54-year-old woman in the right knee and grazed a 35-year-old woman in the buttocks, in a crowded street
