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ABC7 New York
By WABC
10/16/2024

A retired NYPD detective allegedly shot and killed his wife while his three children were home in an apparent murder-suicide, according to Yonkers police.

Police said they were called to Chittenden Avenue in Tuckahoe on Wednesday at 7 a.m. where they found a man deceased with a gunshot wound to his head and a woman deceased with several gunshot wounds to her body.

The man was identified as Sean O’Neill, 54, and the woman was identified as Arlene O’Neill who was 47, police said.

Police said there was a dispute

MSN News
Story by Jennifer Bisram
Oct. 12, 2024

A vigil was held Friday on Long Island for a mother who police say was killed in front of her 2-year-old son by the child’s father. Her family and support group is now bringing awareness to domestic violence.

Brenda Alfaro, 29, was killed inside her Hempstead home on Oct. 5. Police say 43-year-old Jose Funes-Zabala, her son’s father who she was no longer in a relationship with, stabbed her more than 30 times.

It happened just one day after an order of protection expired.

“She had conversations with

Long Island Press By Nicole Formisano 10/15/24 A Three-Year Long Undercover Investigation by the Suffolk County DA Revealed an Alleged Sex Trafficking Ring with Multiple Suffolk Locations An Islip teacher and a Suffolk County police officer were among the four people that a grand jury indicted on charges of allegedly running a sex trafficking ring, prosecutors [...]

NPR
By A Martínez , Jon Hamilton
03/13/24

Domestic violence can leave a characteristic pattern of damage on the brain, with the potential for lasting damage as severe as that caused by sports and military blasts.

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A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:

Domestic violence is now recognized as a leading cause of traumatic brain injury, and there are hints that this kind of physical abuse produces a distinct pattern of damage in the brain. NPR’s Jon Hamilton has been reporting on this research. He joins us now. First, though, a warning – this conversation will include some graphic descriptions

AP News
By Colleen Long and Darlene Superville
09/12/2024

President Joe Biden said Thursday joined scores of advocates and survivors of domestic abuse to mark the 30th anniversary of the landmark Violence Against Women Act, a law he wrote and championed as a U.S. senator because he wanted to “change the culture of America” around this touchy issue.

Biden said that back then “society often looked away” and that violence against women was not treated as a crime in many places. He said a national hotline was not available to those suffering abuse and few police departments with

NBC News
By Claretta Bellamy
Feb.9, 2024

The paper included a decade’s worth of data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention among Black women ages 25 to 44 across 30 states.

In the U.S., Black adult women are six times more likely to be killed than their white counterparts, troubling new data reveals.

A paper published Thursday in The Lancet medical journal analyzed homicide rates of Black women ages 25 to 44 across 30 states. The data was collected between 1999 and 2020 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Vital Statistics System.

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