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UPDATE Fordham Heights: Teacher Shot inside Classroom a day before Start of School Year

By SÍLE MOLONEY
A male teacher has been released from hospital after he was shot inside a Fordham Heights school on Wednesday morning, police said. No school children were present at the time of the shooting. The school, M.S. 391, The Angelo Patri School, located on the campus of X225 Theatre Arts Production Company School at 2190 Folin Street, is next to Twin Park towers, the site of the January 2022 fatal fire, in which 17 people died, including 8 children, mostly of Gambian descent.

“Operation Padlock” Continues

By DAVID GREENE & SÍLE MOLONEY
The latest government crackdown of unauthorized smoke shops, “Operation Padlock to Protect,” continues across Norwood and Bedford Park as two smoke shops and a deli were recently shut down and untaxed cigarettes, vapes, and bags of cannabis were confiscated.

Memorial Service Held for Slain NYPD Detective Miosotis Familia

By SÍLE MOLONEY
A memorial ceremony was held outside the 46thtPrecinct stationhouse on July 5 to honor the late NYPD Detective Miosotis Familia, who had been assigned to the 46th Precinct when she was fatally shot by parolee Alexander Bonds on July 5, 2017, while sitting in her police vehicle after completing an overnight shift. Bonds was reported to have had a history of mental illness according to the Detectives’ Endowment Association and had posted on social media about killing police before the incident. They said he was shot by responding police after a foot pursuit.