Nicholas Williams

Yolaine Diaz, a former fashion and beauty editor for People en Español, died trying to escape with her mother.

Victim Jamel Davis’ pregnant girlfriend asked her 16-year-old son to stop smoking in the family’s NYCHA apartment, sparking the slay, relatives say.

Anthony Griffin was well known in the Bronx for his freestyle raps before slashing three elderly strangers and calling himself “Lucifer.”

Thet “Alex” Aung Oo died Tuesday from complications from the burns he suffered in the massive Feb. 9 inferno that engulfed his Elmhurst home.

Michael Griffiths, 71, told the Daily News in an exclusive interview Wednesday that he was behind the wheel of the 2021 black Ford Explorer cops say struck Underwood in Brownsville Friday morning. …

Two youngsters — one just 12 years old — were arrested for stabbing a 41-year-old man following a dispute over a little barking dog at a Brooklyn park, cops said.

It could have been worse, but for a Brooklyn woman struck by a stray bullet while on her way out to shop for groceries, it was bad enough. “I heard the shot and felt it,” said Vivette Morris, 65, who was shot in the buttocks on July 13 as …

“He was like a little brother,” Remi Adeleke said of pilot Sean Johnson. “He would refer to me as brother and I referred to him as brother.”

Marco Gallardo Tirado, 59, was was crossing DeKalb Ave. midblock near Wyckoff Ave. in Bushwick when the truck driver struck him.

A Queens man fatally shot in the courtyard of a housing project was targeted because he came to the aid of a woman sexually assaulted on the street, according to friends and family.

The Daily News spoke to the family of each victim. The oldest was a 24-year-old engineer working to improve motorcycle energy efficiency.

Nathanial Thomas III, sole caregiver for his ailing mother, was on his daily walk six blocks from the home they shared when he was killed.

“This is my second son that passed away,” said the victim’s devastated mom. “It’s bringing back too many memories from the last shooting.”