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Chris Brown arrested in DC on felony assault charge - Washington Post

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 08:40 AM PDT

R&B singer Chris Brown was arrested early Sunday outside a Washington hotel and charged with felony assault, a D.C. police spokesman said.

Brown and another man, Christopher Hollosy, were allegedly involved in a "physical altercation" with an unidentified man just before 4:30 a.m. in front of the W Hotel in the 500 block of 15th Street, NW, according to a police department spokesman, Officer Anthony Clay.

The singer, 24, and Hollosy, 35, were taken into custody, Clay said. The alleged victim in the altercation was taken to a nearby hospital and released.

Police said there were no weapons involved, but could not immediately provide information about the circumstances of the altercation, first reported by the Web site TMZ. D.C. Police spokesman Paul Metcalf said he expected Brown to be held at the D.C. jail.

Brown had been scheduled to perform Saturday night at a Howard University homecoming-related party at The Park at Fourteenth.

Brown pleaded guilty in 2009 to attacking his then-girlfriend Rihanna and was sentenced to community service and five years of probation. Since then he has had several run-ins with the law.

Luz Lazo and Amy Argetsinger contributed to this report.

Brooklyn mass stabbing leaves 5 dead - New York Daily News

Posted: 27 Oct 2013 09:07 AM PDT

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NYPD officers on the scene in Sunset Park. Five people were killed after a mass stabbing in Brooklyn, officials say.

A woman and four children — the youngest an 18-month-old boy — were stabbed to death Saturday night in a rampage at a Brooklyn apartment, officials said.

A man was in custody and being questioned at the 66th Precinct stationhouse early Sunday, following the bloody spree in an apartment on 57th St., near Ninth Ave., in Sunset Park, a police source said.

The toddler and two girls — ages 9 and 6 — were already dead from their wounds when paramedics arrived just after 11 p.m. The emergency responders rushed a 37-year-old woman and an 8-year-old boy to area hospitals, but doctors were unable to save them, officials said.

The names of the victims had not been released early Sunday.

The unidentified suspect — who sources said may be related to the children — was reportedly found inside the apartment when cops burst in on the grim scene.

"It's looking like a domestic violence case," one high-ranking police source said.

A parent who wasn't home when the residents were attacked — at about 10:45 p.m. — was inconsolable, horrified witnesses said.

"The father was freaking out," said neighbor May Chan. "He just came home from work and saw the police and they told him. He was hysterical."

Police had to break the bitter news to the parent through a Chinese interpreter, she said.

"I always see (the kids) running around here," Chan said. "They run around by my garage playing. They run up and down screaming. They're little kids ... that's so heartbreaking. Innocent kids, my God."

Neighbors thought they were watching a horror movie.

"I saw the mom and the kid, just covered in blood," said Kenny Lin, 33, who lives down the street from the gruesome mass killing. "They were both on stretchers."

Rencong Lee, 26, said she saw a distraught 40-year-old woman — possibly another relative — being comforted by a friend.

"She said, 'My family was cut ... there's so much blood,'" Lee said. "She was crying, I think she was panicking."

"(Then) I saw them put a body in the ambulance." Lee said.

The man in custody had not been charged early Sunday.

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Ahad, 27 Oktober 2013