🌱 BK Funeral Home Car Crash+Stray Shot Kills Woman •Daily Digest

Good morning, Brooklyn! It's Thursday, Oct. 14. You can't make this stuff up: A car hits a funeral home on Tuesday, and it turns out the driver has amassed 25 speeding tickets over the last 90 days. We have the details below.

Today's weather: Ah, it'll be mostly sunny and warm. High: 77 Low: 62.

Here are the top stories today in Brooklyn:

1. The driver of a car that hit a Crown Heights funeral home Tuesday evening has racked up 25 speeding tickets in three months — and once even interrupted a press conference on traffic policy by running a red light. (Patch.com)
2. A 30-year old woman was killed Tuesday after being hit by a stray bullet. Here's what we know so far. (Patch.com)
3. Get The Onion's perspective on the latest Nets sports drama: "Nets Front Office Wishes Kyrie Irving Would Stop Acting Like Kyrie Irving." (The Onion)
4. Have you seen the public art that asks, "Who belongs in Brooklyn?" (Bloomberg)
5. A Brooklyn federal judge has denied a restaurant group’s attempt to block the NYC vaccine proof mandate. (SILive.com)
6. The NYPD just misidentified a Brooklyn mugging suspect. (New York Post )

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— Kevin Phinney

About me: Kevin Phinney has lived and worked as a writer and editor in Austin, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Seattle and New York City. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and was raised in El Paso. Phinney attended college in Austin. He has done television work as a reporter and commentator, and is a former host of a weekday drive-time radio show called "Kevin & Kevin in the Morning" on KGSR-FM (now known as Austin City Limits Radio). He is also the author of "Souled American, " a book tracking race relations in America through music. It was published by BILLBOARD Books, and is often used in college classrooms across the country.

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