In the news business, we call them the dog days of summer.
Life gets put on hold, things slow down — a bit — and suddenly it’s the silly season. People outdo each other in hastening their demise and desperately try to prove who really is the biggest knucklehead.
Unfortunately, the murder rate spikes during these scorching days. Tempers flare, the booze flows and some people do unspeakably stupid things that too often send them to the morgue.
I’ve been away the past week, largely busy with my son’s baseball and moving into a new (very old) home. So, I spent late Sunday and Monday morning catching up on what went down.
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PUPPY LOVE
My former New York Post colleague Al Guart’s beat was the mafia. But it wasn’t publicity shy gangsters that broke Al’s back on the Big Apple: Someone took the time and effort to steal a broom from his front porch. It was the last straw.
Criminologists call that a “lifestyle” crime. Lately, the city’s robust collection of untalented criminals has gone to the dogs — literally.
On Sunday, cops said they’re looking for a woman suspected of a July 5 dognapping. The pitbull pup named Bella was snatched from its owner in the Jane St. and Shoreham, Dr. area. Cops said Bella has been found and was to be reunited with its owner on Monday.
The accused dognapper is one Tiffany Ellis, 26, who is wanted on a charge of theft under $5,000.
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WELL, HE KINDA LOOKS LIKE HIM
It took me under a minute to find a photo of accused killer Rabih “Robby” Alkhalil. The Mounties? They have a problem.
Alkhalil escaped his B.C. prison just three weeks before his first-degree murder trial was expected to conclude in B.C. Supreme Court. Two buddies helped him escape. The RCMP posted photos of the nefarious pair but there was some difficulty. The photos they released depicting the accomplices were stock photos that kinda looked like the guys.
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FILE: NOWHERE IS SAFE
The end for aspiring rapper YB Stainz, AKA Stephon Little-McClacken, came on July 16 near one of the most public areas in the city: Scotiabank Arena. It didn’t come in the early morning hours after bars closed, it happened at 7:30 p.m. when the 24-year-old was gunned down in what cops are calling a targeted hit.
Nirusan Shakespearethas, 26, of Vaughan has been charged with second-degree murder.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT VAUGHAN?
YRP detectives are saying little about a brutal double murder at the ATL Lounge in Vaughan. Two men were shot to death in the early Saturday morning shooting while a female victim is in hospital with serious injuries.
The dead men — both pronounced at the scene — have been identified by police as Tosin Amos-Arowoshegbe, 25, of Toronto, and Chibueze Momah, 22, of Mississauga.
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HINTERLAND HOMICIDE
Tragedy has a way of worming itself into cottage country. And in the early morning hours on July 15, it did just that in Walter’s Falls in West Grey. Cops found 62-year-old local drag race legend Doug “Pit Bull” Hearsum shot to death. His son, Kodie Hearsum, 34, is charged with second-degree murder.
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