18-year-old stabbed to death in Midtown Manhattan
Officers said the sidewalk and walls at the scene were covered in blood when they arrived.
Christina Fan joined CBS News New York as a general assignment reporter in spring of 2019.
She has provided extensive coverage of the coronavirus pandemic's impact on Asian Americans, from the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China to the rise of COVID-related hate crimes locally. Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, she covered the ensuing protests for weeks as demonstrators called for police and criminal justice reform in New York City.
Before joining WCBS, Christina spent three years at the ABC O&O in Fresno, California. She traveled across the state reporting on record-breaking wildfires, the Oroville dam crisis, as well as President Barack Obama's visit to Yosemite. Her career started at WOWK-TV in Charleston, West Virginia, where she shot, wrote and edited all her stories.
Christina graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with dual majors in Broadcast Journalism and International Studies. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and loves to travel. So far she's visited 24 countries across five continents.
Christina is proud to be from Central Jersey, where her parents still live. She is thrilled to be back home and visits her family every week, where she enjoys eating her mom's home-cooked meals and then tries burning off the calories by playing tennis. Christina is a diehard fan of Novak Djokovic.
Officers said the sidewalk and walls at the scene were covered in blood when they arrived.
Officials say the fire impacted five businesses, including a dry cleaner, a meat market and a seafood market.
Flames devoured St. George Orthodox Church, leaving little but brick and rubble of what used to be a community hall.
The storm also caused streams to swell over their banks.
The bottom line is if your vehicle makes a sound over 85 decibels, cameras will capture your license plate and send you a ticket.
Parents were outraged after learning about the stabbing from their kids hours before the school sent any kind of notification.
"He just started to decline, just the disrespect, the loud voice and superiority. He needed to have this power over people where it was hard to talk to him," Gordon's cousin said.
Investigators believe the suspect started a fire inside the house before he tried to leave and was shot by police.
Police said no criminality is suspected. The medical examiner's office will determine how she died.
Officials say 16 people lived inside an illegal rental property that became a deathtrap for an 81-year-old tenant.
As many as 49,000 drivers risk suspension if they fail to submit an acceptable vision test before Friday.
An investigation by the Innocence Project and the Manhattan DA's Office revealed problems with the sole eyewitness.
Drivers are dealing with delays in and around New York City as people try to return home following the long holiday weekend.
Neighbors described a horrifying scene with people screaming, some jumping out of windows to get to safety.
As they tried to navigate tunnels and bridges on Wednesday, drivers kept things in perspective.