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Justice at last: More than 2½ years after the crime, there was a guilty verdict in the murder of jogger Karina Vetrano. After a mistrial in his first case, Chanel Lewis was found guilty in the beating and strangulation of Vetrano in a Howard Beach, Queens, park on Aug. 2, 2016. Lewis’ lawyers said he didn’t get a fair shake in court, but Vetrano’s parents disagreed.
The hero we deserve: MTA motorman Hopeton Kiffin (photo) came to the rescue Thursday when he spotted a teen standing by a third rail in a Brooklyn subway station. Kiffin, 51, stopped his train and pulled the 13-year-old — the grandson of late singer Harry Chapin — onto the train. “It was just part of my job,” the humble hero told The News. “I was trying to
do what is right, and I’m a father and an uncle so I felt protective of him.”
‘Angry and appalled’: Parents are outraged after a teacher showed fifthgraders a bizarre anti-abortion video in her classroom. Ju Ling Wei showed the video — in which young people on a stage interpret what a baby feels while experiencing an abortion — to pupils at Public School 184 in Manhattan. “I was really, really upset and angry and appalled,” Liset Reyes told The News after learning her 10-yearold daughter saw the creepy clip.
To the rescue: It could have turned into a tragedy eerily reminiscent of the killing of Lesandro (Junior) GuzmanFeliz, who was murdered in a Bronx bodega last year. But this time, good Samaritans at a Brooklyn bodega intervened, saving a terrified teen from a group of armed assailants.
‘I loved my son’: In an exclusive jailhouse interview with The News, the mother of a 1-year-old boy who died of a heroin, cocaine and fentanyl overdose said she’s not responsible. “I would never do anything to hurt my son,” said Daira Santana-Gonzalez, blaming her estranged husband for the death of little Darwin. For more on these stories and many others, visit nydailynews.com.