Cops fatally shot a man firing a handgun at a Brooklyn lounge with patrons inside early Wednesday, the second deadly police-involved shooting in a six-hour period, according to authorities.

A pair of plainclothes officers confronted 18-year-old Joshua Martino after seeing him fire at least three shots outside the B-Hive Lounge along Atlantic Ave. near Grand Ave. in Crown Heights around 3:30 a.m., police said. The teen bolted but turned around with the revolver in hand, prompting two officers to open fire, police said. Martino was struck at least once in the torso. He was rushed to Brooklyn Hospital but could not be saved.(nydailynews)…[+]

TEL AVIV, Israel — An Israeli soldier was convicted of manslaughter on Wednesday in the deadly shooting of an incapacitated Palestinian attacker, capping a nine-month saga that has deeply divided the country.

The verdict, which marks an extremely rare instance of an Israeli military court siding against a soldier over lethal action taken in the field, threatened to deepen the rift. Military commanders have condemned the soldier’s conduct, while much of the public, along with leading members of the nationalist ruling coalition, have rallied behind him.

Sgt. Elor Azaria, an army medic, was caught on a cellphone video fatally shooting a wounded Palestinian attacker who had stabbed a soldier in the West Bank city of Hebron in March. The Palestinian was lying motionless on the ground when Azaria shot him in the head. In a verdict that stretched nearly three hours, Col. Maya Heller, head of the three-judge panel, painstakingly rejected all of Azaria’s defense arguments. She said there was no evidence to support his claim that the attacker was already dead or that the man posed any threat at the time.(nydailynews)…[+]

A Staten Island woman curiously known for roleplaying as a dog said she ran away to be with her beau and “couldn’t be happier” following her Christmas Eve disappearance. “I am fine,” Anna Teshu said repeatedly in a Facebook video shared Tuesday night. Teshu, 23, did not reveal her location in the video but prior to vanishing, she said she was moving to North Carolina and would need someone to adopt her pet fish named Rocco. She revealed that she left NYC to seek independence away from her mother. “And if I wasn’t alright, you’d all know I’d be dead: ‘Oh, dog girl shooting, blah, blah, blah,” Teshu added.(nydailynews)…[+]