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1 killed, 3 injured by gunmen on scooters in the Bronx, NYPD says
NEW YORK — Police say one man was killed and three were injured when gunmen on scooters opened fire in the Bronx on Tuesday.
It happened around 6:15 p.m. in the Mount Eden section.
4 shot in the Bronx; 1 dead, 3 hurt
Police say four men between the ages of 23 and 37 were standing on the corner of Townsend and East Mount Eden avenues when four individuals on two scooters approached them, driving eastbound on Mount Eden Avenue.
According to police, the two rear passengers pulled out firearms and fired about 10 rounds at the men standing on the corner.
Three victims were shot in the leg and one victim, 29-year-old Miguel Doleo, was shot in the chest and the leg. Doleo was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police say the suspects fled on the scooters, traveling northbound on Townsend towards the Cross Bronx Expressway. All four suspects wore masks and hoodies.
The investigation is ongoing. Police say the motive is unclear at this time.
Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip via their website or via DM on Twitter, @NYPDTips. All calls are kept confidential.
NYPD combatting crimes involving scooters
Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry said this month, police have been working with the Community Response Team in the Mount Eden section of the Bronx to aggressively go after individuals on scooters.
“There is a direct relation to people riding around on illegal scooters and committing crimes, and it’s a careful balance for us because there are people legitimately riding around on scooters, working, you know, Uber Eats and different things like that, so it’s a careful selection for us, but we do see both, and it’s hard to differentiate at first, but we do see both,” Assistant Chief Benjamin Gurley said.
Daughtry says so far this year, police have made 1,300 arrests involving individuals on scooters and issued 989 summonses to people on scooters.
According to the NYPD, 9,500 illegal scooters, dirt bikes and ATVs have been taken off city streets so far this year, including 2,500 in the Bronx alone.
“We have to give our officers a lot of credit. It takes a skill to apprehend these individuals on scooters. We don’t want our cops chasing them throughout streets because we don’t want to put the public in jeopardy, so we use other things like technology … We have our air support that will follow them, wait ’til they dismount their scooter and they will move in for the apprehension,” Daughtry said. “It’s a skill to go after these scooters, but we don’t want to see cops aggressively chasing them down, you know, Grand Concourse because is it really worth it? So there’s a technique that we have that we use and that we’re getting really good at.”
Daughtry says after Tuesday’s shooting, the department will be bringing the Community Response Team back into the neighborhood, specifically to go after illegal scooters, dirt bikes and ATVs.
“We can’t arrest our way out of this problem … In this game of public safety, there’s other individuals involved in this game of public safety. We’re just the first person in the public safety game that the criminal comes in contact with. Can the Community Response Team, is that the answer to everything? Absolutely not, 100 percent no. There’s other stakeholders in this game of public safety,” Daughtry said.
“I think when you hold the recidivists accountable, that’s where we get the bang for our buck. We have examples of that, and we’re working with our partners in the DA’s office to do that,” Gurley said.
Police said Tuesday that in the past 28 days, 36 gun arrests have been made in the 44th and 46th NYPD precincts, which cover the southwestern and western parts of the Bronx, and 18 guns were taken of the street in those precincts between April 1-9 alone.
Bela Karolyi, the charismatic if polarizing gymnastics coach who turned young women into champions and the United States into an international power, has died. He was 82.
A spokesperson for USA Gymnastics confirmed to CBS News by email that Karolyi died Friday. No cause of death was given.
Karolyi and wife Martha trained multiple Olympic gold medalists and world champions in the U.S. and Romania, including Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton.
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“A big impact and influence on my life,” Comaneci, who was just 14 when Karolyi coached her to gold for Romania at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, posted on Instagram.
The Karolyis defected to the United States in 1981 and over the next 30-plus years became a guiding force in American gymnastics, though not without controversy. Bela helped guide Retton — all of 16 — to the Olympic all-around title at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles and memorably helped an injured Kerri Strug off the floor at the 1996 Games in Atlanta after Strug’s vault secured the team gold for the Americans.
Karolyi briefly became the national team coordinator for USA Gymnastics women’s elite program in 1999 and incorporated a semi-centralized system that eventually turned the Americans into the sport’s gold standard. It did not come without a cost. He was pushed out after the 2000 Olympics after several athletes spoke out about his tactics.
It would not be the last time Karolyi was accused of grandstanding and pushing his athletes too far physically and mentally.
During the height of the Larry Nassar scandal in the late 2010s — when the disgraced former USA Gymnastics team doctor was effectively given a life sentence after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting gymnasts and other athletes with his hands under the guise of medical treatment — over a dozen former gymnasts came forward saying the Karolyis were part of a system that created an oppressive culture that allowed Nassar’s behavior to run unchecked for years.
Still, some of Karolyi’s most famous students were always among his staunchest defenders. When Strug got married, she and Karolyi took a photo recreating their famous scene from the 1996 Olympics, when he carried her onto the medals podium after she vaulted on a badly sprained ankle.
Despite losing his boxing match to Jake Paul, Mike Tyson in a social media post Saturday said he had “no regrets” to getting “in ring one last time.”
The boxing legend was defeated by social media star Jake Paul in a highly anticipated fight on Friday night with an age difference of over three decades between the two contenders.
Netflix said Saturday that 60 million households worldwide tuned in to watch the match. The two fighters went eight full rounds, with each round two minutes long. Paul defeated Tyson by unanimous decision and the 27-year-old upset boxer and 58-year-old former heavyweight champion hugged afterward.
Paul was expected to earn about $40 million from the fight, and Tyson was expected to take around $20 million for the fight, according to DraftKings and other online reports.
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Tyson said on his social media that “this is one of those situations when you lost but still won. I’m grateful for last night.”
The fight almost didn’t happen after Tyson experienced an ulcer flare-up while on a plane in March. He addressed his illness Saturday, writing that he “almost died in June.” He said he had eight blood transfusions and “lost half my blood and 25lbs in hospital and had to fight to get healthy to fight so I won.”
Tyson retired from boxing in 2005 after a 20-year career. He last fought in a 2020 exhibition match against former four-division world champ Roy Jones Jr.
“To have my children see me stand toe to toe and finish 8 rounds with a talented fighter half my age in front of a packed Dallas Cowboy stadium is an experience that no man has the right to ask for. Thank you,” he said.
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In their final meeting, China’s leader Xi Jinping told U.S. President Biden that his nation was “ready to work with a new administration,” as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take over.
The two leaders gathered Saturday on the sidelines of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Mr. Biden was expected to urge Xi to dissuade North Korea from further deepening its support for Russia’s war on Ukraine. It marked their first in-person meeting since they met in Northern California last November.
Without mentioning Trump’s name, Xi appeared to signal his concern that the incoming president’s protectionist rhetoric on the campaign trail could send the U.S.-China relationship into another valley.
“China is ready to work with a new U.S. administration to maintain communication, expand cooperation and manage differences so as to strive for a steady transition of the China-U.S. relationship for the benefit of the two peoples,” Xi said through an interpreter.
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Mr. Biden, meanwhile, spoke in broader brushstrokes about where the relationship has gone and reflected not just on the past four years, but on their long relationship.
“Over the past four years, China-U.S. relations have experienced ups and downs, but with the two of us at the helm, we have also engaged in fruitful dialogues and cooperation, and generally achieved stability,” he said.
Mr. Biden and Xi, with top aides surrounding them, gathered around a long rectangle of tables in an expansive conference room at Lima’s Defines Hotel and Conference Center.
There’s much uncertainty about what lies ahead in the U.S.-China relationship under Trump, who campaigned promising to levy 60% tariffs on Chinese imports.
Bobby Djavaheri, president of Los Angeles-based Yedi Houseware Appliances — which manufactures its products in China — told CBS News in an interview this week that such tariffs “would decimate our business, but not only our business. It would decimate all small businesses that rely on importing.”
Trump has also proposed revoking China’s Most Favored Nation trade status, phasing out all imports of essential goods from China and banning China from buying U.S. farmland.
Already, many American companies, including Nike and eyewear retailer Warby Parker, have been diversifying their sourcing away from China. Shoe brand Steve Madden says it plans to cut imports from China by as much as 45% next year.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Biden administration officials will advise the Trump team that managing the intense competition with Beijing will likely be the most significant foreign policy challenge they will face.
It’s a big moment for Mr. Biden as he wraps up more than 50 years in politics. He saw his relationship with Xi as among the most consequential on the international stage and put much effort into cultivating that relationship.
Mr. Biden and Xi first got to know each other on travels across the U.S. and China when both were vice presidents, interactions that both have said left a lasting impression.
“For over a decade, you and I have spent many hours together, both here and in China and in between. And I think we’ve spent a long time dealing with these issues,” Mr. Biden said Saturday.
But the last four years have presented a steady stream of difficult moments.
The FBI this week offered new details of a federal investigation into Chinese government efforts to hack into U.S. telecommunications networks. The initial findings have revealed a “broad and significant” cyberespionage campaign aimed at stealing information from Americans who work in government and politics.
U.S. intelligence officials also have assessed China has surged sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry for use in its war against Ukraine.
And tensions flared last year after Mr. Biden ordered the shooting down of a Chinese spy balloon that traversed the United States.
