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The ME's office will conduct an autopsy on a 2-month-old who died after being found unconscious in an apartment in the Wingate section of Brooklyn. According to the Daily News, the baby's father asked a neighbor to help revive baby Tuquan Bennett-Shuler, but the neighbor, John Mercano, "dialed 911 when he realized the newborn was near death." When FDNY EMS arrived, Tuquan didn't respond to CPR; he later was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital. The News reports that police were questioning the baby's mother, "who has faced child abuse accusation," as well as the baby's father, who allegedly told Mercano that "the mother smothered the baby because the baby was crying too much."

Police believe three robbers confronted a shop owner in Brooklyn's Wingate neighborhood and the situation ended with two of the robbers dead. The Daily News reports that Youssouf Brame managed to fire at the armed robbers, leaving "one bandit...dead" and "another [running] from the store bleeding from a fatal chest wound" (a third suspect escaped). Brame was shot in the stomach, and it's unclear who may have fired first. Brame's store, at 1051 Nostrand Avenue and Lefferts, is described as a variety-store, and a neighbor told the NY Times that Brame "would always talk with everybody, he was so friendly." Brame underwent surgery and is in critical but stable condition.