Long Island Man Charged With Shooting Female Housemate In Overnight Dispute
A man is behind bars after shooting his housemate during an overnight dispute on Long Island, police said.
It happened on Wednesday, Jan. 1 at approximately 2:40 a.m. in Wyandanch.
Steven Merriman, 59, was having a dispute with a female occupant of the home, located at 82 Irving Ave., when he shot her in the arm, Suffolk County Police said.
The woman, 36, was transported to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip with non-life-threatening injuries, said police.
First Squad detectives arrested and charged Merriman with second-degree assault. Additional charges are pendi…
LI Woman Who Fled Scene Of Crash Injuring Pedestrian Charged With DWI Under Leandra's Law
A Long Island woman who fled the scene of a crash in which a pedestrian was injured was driving drunk with a child inside the vehicle, police say.
It happened on Saturday night, Nov. 16 in Wyandanch.
Tasena Jennings, 33, of West Babylon, was driving a 1999 Lincoln Navigator northbound on N. 20th Street when the vehicle struck an occupied, parked 2003 GMC, causing the GMC to strike a pedestrian in front of 127 N. 20th St. at 7:10 p.m., Suffolk County Police said. Jennings then fled the scene, according to police.
Jayvon Smith, 19, of Wyandanch, who was inside the GMC, was not inj…
