CONFLICT RESOLUTION When 40 year-old Queens resident Alister Harper stepped out ...
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When 40 year-old Queens resident Alister Harper stepped out of a Bed-Stuy bar early Monday and a bunch of yahoos started lobbing anti-gay slurs at him, the last thing he wanted was a confrontation. So he did the only reasonable thing he could think of to defuse the situation-he picked up a trash can and hurled it at them. Much to Harper's dismay, this didn't placate anyone, certainly not especially not the aspiring wrestler with metal folding chair. One blow to the head later, Harper was laid out flat with a split skull.
A few minutes after the yahoos ran away, an ambulance showed up. Now, it's unclear whether Harper was simply disoriented after the blow to the head, merely in a surly mood that night or if the EMS workers were calling him names, too but for whatever reason, he then tried to pick a fight with them. He didn't win that one, either, and is now facing disorderly conduct charges.
BAD, BAD BABYSITTER
With summer coming to a close, it seems people have become so bereft of ideas that they've resorted to simply repeating crimes they read about in the previous week's papers. This meant trouble for one-month-old Jaheim Clark of Brooklyn. When his mom stopped by Friday night to pick him and his three-year-old brother Iverson up at her boyfriend's house, she noticed Jaheim's cheek was bruised.
The boyfriend, 23-year-old Jason Simon, allegedly told her that, well, it was like this? the boys, see, they were roughhousing, and?
But after Jaheim woke up dead the next morning, and the ME ruled his death a homicide, Simon reportedly started singing a different tune-one that involved smacking toddlers around. Was it his fault they couldn't take it?
He's now being charged with murder, and Iverson's been handed over to Children's Services..
BBQ BEEF
Speaking of redundant crime, here one's that's become almost generic this summer. Backyard barbecue in Brooklyn stretched into early Sunday morning. Uninvited guests arrived. A brawl erupted. Guns were fired. Screaming and running ensued. One was left dead, two others wounded, and the suspects got away.
Not much new there. No names were available this time, but the dead man was 25.
SHOOT YOUR SON JUST ONCE?
It's entirely possible that Bronx resident Daniel Jones, 39, was simply demonstrating his Quickdraw McGraw impression for his six-month-old son Sunday night when-wouldn't you know it-the gun went off and the boy ended up with a bullet in the knee.
As if getting shot in the knee by dear old dad wasn't bad enough, the old man with the itchy trigger finger allegedly didn't even bother calling 911. Instead, he bundled the boy up, tossed him in the car and drove him to the hospital himself. The folks at the hospital took a look at the situation, and picked up the phone. Jones is now facing, for starters, weapons and child endangerment charges.