New York Headlines

• What We Know About the Deadly Shooting at Brown University

  (by Yan Zhuang, By Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Mark Arsenault and Mitch Smith for The New York Times 47 minutes ago)
  Two people were killed and nine others injured during an attack on the Rhode Island campus. Officials were searching early Sunday for a gunman suspected in the shooting.
  
  

• A Brown University Instructor Hid From Gunfire With His Students

  (by Katherine Rosman, Ashley Ahn and Jenna Russell for The New York Times 4 hours ago)
  Joseph Oduro, 21, said he was leading an economics study session for about 60 students when a masked man entered the room and started shooting.
  
  

• Gunshots, Sirens and a Manhunt Transform Brown’s Campus

  (by Mark Arsenault and Thomas Gibbons-Neff for The New York Times 5 hours ago)
  A typical Saturday night on the Ivy League campus was shaken by the killing of two people and the wounding of 9 others.
  
  
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• ‘Broken system’ led to state’s premature release of psych patient accused of stabbing tourist inside NYC Macy’s bathroom

  (by Tina Moore, Rich Calder for The New York Post 10 hours ago)
  New York’s broken mental health system pressures doctors to release severely psychotic patients -- and likely played a role in the attack on a tourist this week in Macy’s Herald Square, insiders and other critics told The Post Saturday.
  
  

• Grinning sicko confesses to strangling cabbie to death before dumping his body to settle score

  (by Marie Pohl, Anna Young, Shane Galvin for The New York Post 12 hours ago)
  Santos Vasquez-Ramirez, 27, was arrested at his Pawling, New York, home on Saturday in connection to the Dec. 1 murder of Aurelio Zhunio-Orbez, according to authorities.
  
  

• Stabber’s chilling jailhouse confession: ‘Voices’ in my head ordered me ‘to go to Macy’s and kill’

  (by Jennifer Bain, Samantha Olander for The New York Post 13 hours ago)
  “I am being tortured by the government,” she insisted. “They put words into my head. They told me that I had to kill or they would kill me.”
  
  

• Up All Night in New York, Selling Christmas Trees

  (by Addie Morfoot and Tessa Belle Dillman for The New York Times 14 hours ago)
  Before Santa comes to town, the tree sellers do, packing themselves into trailers and vans across New York City to claim a slice of the competitive tree market.
  
  

• Eric Adams Swaggered Into City Hall, and Now He’s Swaggering Out

  (by Debra Kamin for The New York Times 22 hours ago)
  Interviewed as he prepares to leave office, Mayor Eric Adams said that he hadn’t gotten the credit he deserved and that certain forces had always been arrayed against him.
  
  

• Soon He’ll Be Mayor Mamdani. To His Soccer Teammates, He Was Just Z.

  (by Andrew Keh for The New York Times 1 day, 18 hours ago)
  Zohran Mamdani isn’t just a superfan. Until recently, he was a key player on the Talking Headers, a rec-league team in Brooklyn.