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A North Carolina home invasion left a national kart racing champion dead — gunned down in front of his fiancée in a late-morning break-in last month, according to authorities. Tyler Weaver, 25, suffered fatal gunshot wounds in what the local police chief called a "targeted" robbery that took place around 10 a.m. on Oct. 24, according to the Forest City Police Department. Weaver's fiancée, Nevaeh Quintero, was held at gunpoint but managed to escape and call 911, according to court documents. The suspects are both repeat offenders who avoided capture for 10 days before authorities caught up with them. They...

A troubled exotic dancer who recently separated from her wife and lost her kids to foster care was gunned down execution style on a Gramercy Park sidewalk early Thursday, cops and witnesses said. Imani Armstrong was headed home from a late shift at her other job at an IHOP at about 5 a.m. when a masked gunman snuck up and blasted her in the back of the head at East 14th Street and Irving Place... The motive for the slaying remained unknown, but the shooting of was not random, cops said. “The individual was targeted,” Chief of Department Kenneth Corey...

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