Girl, in Brooklyn for Funeral, Is Shot Just Before Service (link)

A 14-year-old Georgia girl visiting Brooklyn for her great-aunt's funeral became a victim of a shootout yesterday when she stepped outside the funeral home minutes before the service began, the police said.

...Nikiyra, a high school freshman, was outside the funeral home taking pictures with her cousins before the service began. ..."I heard a gunshot," she said. A man with a black hat ran past... Nikiyra said she felt the wind rushing into her body. "I pulled up my shirt...Then I started screaming 'I got shot!' 'I got shot!'"

A Fatal Hit-Run, and 'Now the Kids Are Playing Again (link)

...Charles was playing ball on the street... An ice cream truck pulled up. [H]e went to get a dollar from his stepfather... then went back into the street...."He looked both ways," she [said]. "He stepped out into the street, he saw the car coming, and as he backed up, the car hit him and he went flying."

Charles was pronounced dead at 4:36 a.m. yesterday at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens.

Police Say Mother Failed To Halt Rapes (link)

A Long Island woman who took her 13-year-old daughter and two other girls, 13 and 14, on a shopping expedition to White Plains has been accused of buying alcohol for the children and then standing by while two men raped her daughter and one of the friends in a hotel, the police said...

Inspector Jackson said the mother was aware of both sexual assaults as they were happening but did nothing to stop them.

Man Accused of Child Sex Assault in Park (link)

A man who has served time for sodomy has been arraigned on charges that he sexually assaulted two boys, 11 and 13, in MacNeil Park in College Point... At the arraignment, Mr. Appelbaum said that Mr. Felton had sex with the 11-year-old in a park bathroom while making the older boy stand guard.