A gun-toting skateboarder shot a man dead outside a Harlem apartment building, police said Sunday. Cops identified Koron Bailey, 30, as their suspect in the 1:50 p.m. Friday killing of the 21-year-old man on W. 141st St. near Frederick Douglass Blvd.

Bailey approached the unidentified victim from behind and started spraying bullets, cops said. When the man dropped to the ground, they said, the killer fired a single gunshot to his head. The shooter bolted from the scene on a skateboard, heading east on 141st St., police said.(Nydailynews.com)…[+]

The hope is that the silly season in Presidential politics might come to an end Monday night with the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. But that probably isn’t the way to bet, not after 15 months when the whole thing has been about as real as the reality television that made Trump a television star in this country.

Whatever happens this is the main event at long last, after all the name-calling and fabulism and outright lies from the Trump campaign, about everything from the invasion of Iraq to the definition of real sacrifice to the notion that Hillary Clinton is looking to abolish the Second Amendment, even to calling Lester Holt, the moderator of the first debate, a lousy Democrat. Maybe what we really find out at Hofstra is if the main event turns out to be nothing more than something out of pro wrestling: “Monday Night Raw.”(nydailynews.com)…[+]

Multiple people were injured in an early-morning shooting near a shopping center in southwest Houston, according to police and local media reports. Shots rang out before 7 a.m. local time. Police reported an active shooter situation in a shopping center near the corner of Weslayan and Bissonnet streets. The suspected shooter was shot by cops, and authorities don’t believe any other suspects were involved in the attack, police confirmed.The conditions of the shooter and victims haven’t been revealed.

One witness, speaking to ABC station KTRK-TV, said he heard “over 100 shots” fired – including AK-47 and AR-15 gunfire. It was “steady shooting back and forth” between police and the suspect, the man said.(nydailynews.com)…[+]