Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

About the Author

Jorge Fitz-Gibbon is a general assignment reporter at The Post. He joined the staff in 2019 after more than three decades as a professional journalist. He previously worked in various capacities at the New York Daily News and the USA Today Network of Gannett Co. He was an award-winning member of the Investigations Team at Gannett’s Journal News/lohud.com. He is a former adjunct professor of journalism at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY.

The Archive

LI salon where NYPD cop, three others were killed by drunk driver is now a community memorial

Hawaii Nail & Spa in Deer Park where four people were killed by an alleged drunk driver, including an NYPD cop, has become a gathering place for locals to mourn...

8-year-old girl dies in sweltering locked car as mom leaves her to go to work

A 36-year-old North Carolina mom is facing manslaughter and child neglect charges after police said she left her 8-year-old daughter locked in the car while she went to work at...

NYC straphangers uneasy over zip ties seemingly holding tracks together: 'Should I be worried?'

The MTA says zip lines along the tracks in Queens are no cause for concern, but it's making some Big Apple straphangers uneasy as the railroad halts its capital projects...

Glamorous 'Cryptoqueen' in $4B Ponzi scheme has $5M bounty on her head — and hasn't been seen in 7 years

The brunette braniac, who has a penchant for blood-red lipstick, is believed to be traveling with armed guards or associates -- and may have had plastic surgery to alter her...

NJ toddler nearly gobbled up when 10-foot-deep sinkhole opens near splash pool: ‘I saw him almost go into the ground’

A 20-month-old New Jersey boy was splashing around in an inflatable pool on his front lawn on Monday when the ground opened up and he almost went tumbling into the...

Turkish migrant arrested for allegedly raping 15-year-old girl in his car in Albany

Sakir Akkan, 21, allegedly forced the girl into his vehicle in Albany in the early hours of May 14 after threatening her with a metal pole, News13 reported, citing court...

Crime-plagued NYC bodegas implementing 'panic buttons' to combat ballooning violence

A group representing New York City bodegas said it is launching a "panic button" pilot program to help small shop owners combat the rash of violence that has placed them...

Boy, 14, recalls almost losing leg in NC beach shark horror: 'I was just screaming and screaming'

A 14-year-old boy was swimming in North Topsail Beach in North Carolina on Sunday when a shark chomped down on his leg, leaving him bloody and screaming, according to a...

Whacko tries to slice off man's nose with a samurai sword for kissing kin: police

Police said Peter Michael Anthony Tighe flew off the handle when a man kissed a relative in a South Carolina convenience store parking lot -- so he tried to cut...

NJ video game nut flies to Florida overnight to attack online rival with hammer: cops

Edward Kang is facing attempted murder and burglary charges after flying to Florida overnight to attack a rival gamer with a hammer in his own home, authorities said.

Jealous ex killed NYC cabbie and then sent his family horrifying photos and chilling voice messages, kin says

A possessive ex-girlfriend charged with stabbing a city cab driver to death sent friends photos of his bloodied body -- and left his family a haunting voice message confessing to...

NYC bodega worker describes vicious hammer attack that left her blacked out, battered: 'I'm afraid now'

Oralia Perez, 41, was beaten by a customer at A&D Deli Grocery on East 188th Street on Saturday morning.

Troubled NYC man who tried to drown his twin toddlers at Conn. beach ordered held on $2M bail

A Queens man charged with trying to drown his two children at a Connecticut beach early Saturday morning was hauled into court Monday and ordered held on $2 million bail.

NYC activists slam DA Bragg for dropping charges against anti-Israel Columbia protesters

Dozens of protesters swarmed Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s building Monday to rip him for nixing charges against members of the anti-Israel mob that attacked Columbia University — calling the move...

Straphanger blinded by vagrant in random attack shares devastating update as brute learns his fate

The Queens mom brutally stomped by a deranged vagrant at a city subway station remains so traumatized that she couldn't even face the brute in court Monday – as he was...

Wife admits she tried to poison her veterinarian husband with his own stash of animal drugs

Amanda Alicia Chapin faces up to 12.5 years in prison after admitting that she tried to poison her husband, a veterinarian 20 years her senior, with euthanasia drugs he uses...

Michigan sheriff's deputy shot dead in vicious ambush as community reels from 'soul-crushing' loss

Oakland County, Michigan, Deputy Sheriff Bradley Reckling, 30, was gunned down in Detroit on Saturday night by accused car thieves. He leaves a wife and three young daughters, officials said.

Fired-up New Yorkers push feds to close troublesome migrant tent city: 'No more'

A caravan of 90 vehicles converged on Floyd Bennett Field on Sunday as a mob of protesters rallied outside the former federal airfield to protest a massive migrant tent city...

Man fatally stabbed after running into NYC bodega for help as violence plagues Big Apple stores

The attack occurred around 9:40 p.m. when the unidentified 40-year-old victim ran into Sammy's Gourmet Deli on Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica looking for help and was stabbed multiple times in...