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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'tragedy'

August 26, 2008

Yesterday, mourners attended the funeral of the pregnant traffic agent fatally struck in the Bronx and the baby son she never knew. Donnette Sanz and Sean Michael Justin Sanz were buried together in the same casket; she had died on August while her son was born but only lived a week until last Friday. Wdower Rafael Sanz "broke down" when he was given the flag from the coffin. Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Ray Kelly attended......

Continue Reading "Hundreds Attend Funeral for Traffic Agent and Baby Son"

August 24, 2008

It's been a heartbreaking week for Rafael Sanz. His pregnant wife, traffic agent Donnette Sanz, was hit by an out-of-control van and was pinned under a school bus on a Bronx street. She died, but doctors delivered their 2-months premature baby boy. Unfortunately, the baby lost his fight a week later and Sanz told the Daily News that doctors weren't optimistic, so he took the baby off the respirator "to end his pain." Donnette Sanz's......

Continue Reading "A Bronx Tragedy"

August 16, 2008

Photograph of people mourning outside of shooting victim Bukhari Washington's--and alleged shooter Terrance Perry's--home by Mike Derer/AP On Thursday morning, 15-year-old Bukhari Washington was killed in his bedroom when a bullet from a semiautomatic rifle entered through the floor of his bedroom in Newark, NJ. He had been sleeping, and it turned out his downstairs neighbor, 19-year-old Terrance Perry, accidentally fired the rifle when "fiddling" around with it. In a city too accustomed to......

Continue Reading "Questions Surround Newark Teen's Stray Bullet Death"

June 19, 2008

Yesterday, a funeral was held for three-year-old Kyle Smith, who died under the care and apparent abuse of family friends. Family members, friends and neighbors shed tears and voiced regrets over the child's death. Kyle's mother, Eugenia Holmes, carried a photograph of her son. Last year, while battling drug addiction, Holmes had agreed to let her friend Nymeem Cheatham take Kyle in. After his battered body was examined by the medical examiner's office two weeks......

Continue Reading "Family, Friends Say Goodbye to Fatally Abused Boy"

December 4, 2007

A day after the tragic death of Stephon Marbury's father Donald, some more details have come to light regarding his final moments. Knicks officials insist that Stephon's family asked the team not to notify him of his father's condition until after the game. Apparently this was not the first time Donald Marbury had suffered from chest pains like these. Donald was taken from The Garden right before the third quarter began, but the team only......

Continue Reading "Family Asked Knicks to Let Steph Play"

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