Crime & Justice

Cops Dashed Into Danger to Save Lives. They Took Saheed Vassell’s Instead.

‘DON’T WALK IN THE BLOOD’

The NYPD cops have to be considered brave for responding so immediately Wednesday to multiple reports of a man with a gun. But none of them knew Crown Heights.

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Bebeto Matthews/AP

Late Thursday morning, two plainclothes cops set to scrubbing away the blood that had been spilled at the corner of Utica Avenue and Montgomery Street the afternoon before, which happened to be the 50th

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