What Killed the Whale at Coney Island; Bitcoin Robbery; and More Brooklyn Briefs

- Girl, 13, writes statement to man who shot and paralyzed her: ‘I have ... endured more pain in my short life than most people.' [Daily News]

- Dead whale found washed up on Coney Island beach was killed by a ship strike. [PIX11]

- Legendary singer and Brooklyn native Ronnie Gilbert, who made musical history with the Weavers beginning in the late 1940s, has died. [CBSlocal]

- Take a look at NYC’s only non-gentrifying neighborhoods. (Hint: two in Brooklyn, one in Staten Island.) [TRD]

- Man robbed of $1,100 worth of bitcoin at gunpoint in Brooklyn. [IBTimes]

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