Police arrested and charged a man with murder over the fatal shootings of an imam and his friend as they left a New York City mosque over the weekend.

Tommy Gilbert Jr has been arrested on suspicion of shooting Tommy Sr, a rich Wall St investor. How did such a gilded life corrode? asks Lynnley Browning

A 30-year-old man shot his hedge fund founder father dead inside his New York apartment after the pair argued over the son’s allowance, police said.

The gunman who murdered two New York City police officers in their squad car had a long criminal record, a hatred of police and the government and an apparent history of mental instability that included a suicide attempt a year ago, it has emerged.