The Brooklyn Ink

Man gets 18 years for allowing 3-year-old’s murder

By Nate Rawlings
The man convicted of not intervening while his girlfriend beat a 3-year-old to death with a pool cue was sentenced in Brooklyn Supreme Court today to 18 years to life in prison.
Lemar Martin, a former city housing guard, who was convicted of second-degree murder on Jan. 27, was sentenced by Justice Gustin Reichbach, [...]

After the Fire: The Long Journey Home

Luisa left the funeral home last Thursday on a Friday flight out of John F. Kennedy
Airport to her home country, Guatemala

The Man with the Machete

By Danielle Bengsch
On Sunday night at around 11 p.m., according to police reports, Samuel Forrese opened the door to his East Flatbush apartment with a machete in hand. After he did not let go of the machete, despite orders to do so, the police employed a Taser. When Forrese still did not drop the weapon, [...]

Letter To Rapist Read In Court; He Gets 437 Years

By K. S. Nikhil Kumar
The victim had asked to speak to her attacker. She rose and came to the front of
Judge Vincent DelGiudice’s Brooklyn courtroom today. The judge was about to pronounce sentence for Boker Thomas, 31, who stood convicted of multiple counts of rape, criminal sexual assault, burglary and robbery.
Three court officers escorted Thomas [...]

After the fire: the long farewell

Video by Nushin Rashidian and Story by Alyson Martin
On Friday evening, Miguel talked about strength.
How important it is for him to remain strong for his young son, Josias. How he needs to be strong for little Maria, still healing from head trauma after the fire that killed their mother, Miguel’s wife.
Yes, he must be strong, [...]

After the fire: Luisa’s funeral

Miguel Chan mourns at a funeral for his wife Luisa Chan, victim of the Bensonhurst fire that killed four others.

Zazi pleads guilty to terrorism charges

By Danielle Bengsch, contributed reporting Althea Fung
Najibullah Zazi listened attentively to U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie in Federal District Court in Brooklyn today as he listed the charges: Zazi was alleged to be part of a conspiracy of planning an attack with weapons of mass destruction, being part of a conspiracy to commit murder in [...]

Deliberations Resume After Juror Dismissal

A reconstituted jury panel began deliberations this afternoon in the trial of a Brooklyn police officer accused of sexual assault.

After the Fire – Part Two: The Unforgiven

Five lives were lost in the early morning hours on January 30 in a fire allegedly set by the victims’ neighbor. The Brooklyn Ink plans to chronicle the aftermath of this devastating Bensonhurst fire on the people whose lives it touched and the community in which it occurred. This is Part Two.

By Jeannette Neumann
In the [...]

After the Fire – Part One

Five lives were lost in the early morning hours on January 30 in a fire allegedly set by the victims’ neighbor.