111609 People on Home Street, The Bronx, react as a woman aids Vada Vasquez, 15, an innocent passerby, shot in the left side of her head by Carvett Gentles, 16, trying to gain gang membership by shooting Tyrone Creighton, brother of a Rikers Island inmate. Although two of Gentles' shots hit Creighton, the intended victim in the buttocks, other shots missed Creighton and injured Ms. Vasquez,. Photo by Robert Kalfus © 2009.
090412 Suze Abellard, girlfriend of Marllindckrodt Leandre, age 27, one of two men killed in the vicinity of the West Indian Day parade in Brooklyn on Labor Day 2012, cries as she recalls her "best friend". Ms. Abellard is the mother of Leandre's three year old daughter, Saskie. Photograph © Robert Kalfus 2012.
090412 Two horses which injured themselves thrashing about in their horse trailer at right,, leaving blood on the door, are removed to a New York City Police Dept. Mounted Unit trailer brought to the scene on the westbound Cross Bronx Expressway, which stopped all westbound traffic for hours. Photo © Robert Kalfus 2012.