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☆ Most Major Crimes Are Down. Why Are Assaults Up?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Maria Cramer | Chelsia Rose Marcius | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Just before noon last Saturday, a 9-year-old girl was with her mother at Grand Central Terminal when a man strode up to the child and, without warning, punched her in the face, according to the police. The child, dizzy and in pain, was taken to the hospital. It was the second time in nine days that Mr. Zarzuela had randomly attacked someone at the terminal, the police said. On April 4, they said, he punched a 56-year-old woman in the face, causing her nose to bleed and her left eye to swell shut. And it was among a number of recent assaults that have unnerved New Yorkers, who have seen a rash of attacks reported on the streets and on the subway.

Persons: strode, Jean Carlos Zarzuela, Zarzuela Organizations: Grand Central Locations: East Harlem

The new tents popped up — one, two, three — on Columbia’s campus. If university officials thought that getting rid of the encampment, or arresting more than 100 protesters, would persuade students to give up, they may have been very wrong. By Thursday night, the tents had disappeared. But scores of students took over a campus lawn. Planning to stay all night, they were in a rather upbeat mood, noshing on donated pizza and snacks.

Persons: ”, Layla Saliba Organizations: School of Social Locations: Columbia’s, Israel, Palestinian, American

☆ A Quiet Sunday Night in Syracuse, and Then a Deadly Ambush
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Michael Wilson | Chelsia Rose Marcius | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The deadliest day in Syracuse police history in over 30 years began when two officers attempted to pull over a gray Honda Civic on a quiet corner outside a church. The car peeled away, out of sight — but not before the police officers clocked its license plate. The officers soon tracked the Civic to Darien Drive in the town of Salina, a suburb about 15 minutes away. Another neighbor, Mousa Alzokari, 47, who works at a Syracuse newsstand, was home with his five children in their living room. And across the street, Daniel Kay, 73, was reading his Sunday newspaper at his front window.

Persons: ”, Duane Shenandoah, Mousa Alzokari, Daniel Kay Organizations: Honda Locations: Syracuse, Darien, Salina

☆ Man in Custody in Fatal Shooting of N.Y.P.D. Officer
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-26 | by ( Chelsia Rose Marcius | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A 34-year-old man was in police custody on Tuesday in the fatal shooting of Police Officer Jonathan Diller during a traffic stop in Queens. parked in Far Rockaway shortly before 6 p.m. on Monday when Officer Diller and his partner approached, the police said. Mr. Rivera refused to step out of the illegally parked car and then fired his weapon through the passenger window, the authorities said. His shot hit Officer Diller, 31, in the torso, just beneath his protective vest, the police said. Officer Diller’s partner, Officer Veckash Khedna, returned fire, shooting Mr. Rivera in the back, according to the police and an internal Police Department report.

Persons: Jonathan Diller, Guy Rivera, Diller, Rivera, Veckash Khedna Organizations: Police Department Locations: Queens, Rockaway

A police officer died on Monday after being shot during a traffic stop in Queens, the police and city officials said. The suspected gunman, who was also wounded, was the first to fire his gun on Monday evening during the car stop in Far Rockaway, striking the officer in the torso below his protective vest, Police Commissioner Edward A. Caban said at a news conference at Jamaica Hospital, where the officer was taken. Another officer returned fire, striking the man, who was also taken to Jamaica Hospital, where he is being treated for his injuries, officials said at the news conference. “This is a devastating moment,” said Mayor Eric Adams, who also spoke at the news conference. “We have to bury another cop,” he added.

Persons: Edward A, Caban, ”, Eric Adams Organizations: Jamaica Hospital Locations: Queens, Far Rockaway, Jamaica

☆ 5-Year-Old Twins Found Dead in the Bronx Were Smothered, Official Says
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-14 | by ( Chelsia Rose Marcius | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The 5-year-old twins who were found lifeless in their mother’s bed in the family’s Bronx apartment last December were smothered to death, according to the city’s medical examiner. The deaths of the children, a boy and a girl, have been ruled homicides, said Julie Bolcer, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office. So far, no arrests have been made, a police spokeswoman said on Thursday. The twins’ deaths had puzzled the authorities for nearly three months. Initial autopsies were performed, but they required further study, according to Ms. Bolcer.

Persons: Julie Bolcer, Bolcer Locations: Bronx, Monroe, Mount Hope

☆ After Woman Loses Feet in Subway Shoving, Her Boyfriend Is Charged
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-10 | by ( Chelsia Rose Marcius | More About Chelsia Rose Marcius | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A woman was struck by a subway train in Manhattan and had both feet amputated after her boyfriend shoved her onto the tracks during a dispute, the police said. The man, Christian Valdez, 35, was charged with attempted murder and felony assault for pushing the 29-year-old woman at the Fulton Street station, where she was struck by a southbound No. Officers responding to a 911 call just before 10:30 a.m. found the woman on the tracks, conscious and responsive. The woman, whom the police have not named, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where her feet were amputated, according to the police and a law enforcement official. Mr. Valdez had previously served time in prison for slashing a woman and her child.

Persons: Christian Valdez, Valdez, Kathy Hochul Organizations: Fulton, Bellevue Hospital, Gov, Democrat, National Guard, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Locations: Manhattan, Bellevue, New

☆ What to Know About the Feud Between 2 Prosecutors Over a Murder Suspect
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Chelsia Rose Marcius | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It began Wednesday when Rachel Mitchell, the Republican county attorney for Maricopa County, Ariz., said at a news conference that she would not send the man, Raad Almansoori, back to New York to face murder charges. The reason, she said, was that Alvin L. Bragg, Manhattan’s Democratic district attorney, could not be trusted to keep Mr. Almansoori behind bars. Mr. Bragg, she said, is too lenient on “violent criminals.”The case was swiftly swept up into national politics, where both prosecutors have played major roles, prompting a volley of bitter cross-country exchanges. In a radio interview Thursday, Ms. Mitchell criticized Mr. Bragg’s handling of a case involving seven migrants arrested in New York City and charged with assaulting two police officers in Times Square last month. All seven are now in jail.

Persons: Rachel Mitchell, Raad Almansoori, Alvin L, Bragg, Mitchell, Mr Organizations: Republican, Manhattan’s Democratic, Times Locations: Manhattan, Arizona, Maricopa County, Ariz, New York, New York City

☆ Criticizing Bragg, Arizona Refuses to Send Murder Suspect to New York
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-21 | by ( Chelsia Rose Marcius | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Feb. 8, a woman was found dead in a Manhattan hotel room, bludgeoned to death with an iron. In the normal course of events, the suspect would be sent back to New York to face charges — a routine extradition. But on Wednesday, an Arizona prosecutor refused, saying she did not believe Alvin L. Bragg, Manhattan’s district attorney, could be trusted to keep him behind bars. “Having observed the treatment of violent criminals in the New York area by the Manhattan D.A. there, Alvin Bragg,” Ms. Mitchell told reporters.

Persons: Alvin L, Bragg, Rachel Mitchell, Raad Almansoori, Alvin Bragg, ” Ms, Mitchell, “, ” Organizations: Manhattan Locations: Manhattan, Arizona, New York, Manhattan’s, Maricopa County, United States

The Manhattan district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, will convene a grand jury on Tuesday to hear evidence against a group of men caught on video last month assaulting police officers in Times Square, he said in a statement. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly. “They should be sitting in Rikers right now, on bail,” John Chell, the Police Department chief of patrol, said on Wednesday of the men charged in the attack. “You want to know why our cops are getting assaulted? There are no consequences.”

Persons: Alvin L, Bragg, “, ” John Chell, ” Organizations: Times, Police Department Locations: Manhattan, Rikers

☆ Man Arrested Twice in 3 Days Outside Taylor Swift’s TriBeCa Home
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Chelsia Rose Marcius | More About Chelsia Rose Marcius | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A 33-year-old man has been arrested twice in roughly 48 hours after stalking Taylor Swift outside her Manhattan home, the police said on Tuesday. The man, David Crowe, of Seattle, was charged by the police on Monday with two counts of harassment and two counts of stalking. A neighbor and a security guard at the pop star’s building in TriBeCa had spotted Mr. Crowe, who was first arrested near Ms. Swift’s residence over the weekend. Around 1:30 p.m. Saturday, security personnel called 911 to report that Mr. Crowe had tried to enter the residence, the police said. A judge had issued the warrants after Mr. Crowe failed to show up to court to answer those summonses.

Persons: Taylor Swift, David Crowe, Crowe Locations: Manhattan, Seattle, TriBeCa, Greenpoint, Brooklyn

A gunman shot a 17-year-old boy and a man in his 40s inside a moving subway car as it approached a station in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood during the evening rush hour on Tuesday, the police said. The shooting occurred just after 5:30 p.m. on a northbound C train as it pulled into the Ralph Avenue station, the police said. The 17-year-old sustained an injury to his right hand and was taken to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, the police said. The man was shot in the left ankle and was taken to Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, the police said. It was unclear whether the gunman, who fled the scene, and the victims knew one another.

Organizations: Bellevue Hospital, Kings County Hospital Locations: Brooklyn’s Bedford, Stuyvesant, Bellevue, Manhattan, Kings, Brooklyn

But on Monday, Mr. Banks said there had been “many rumors and misinformation” about what happened. “Violence, hate and disorder have no place in our schools,” Mr. Banks, who himself attended Hillcrest in the 1970s, said at a news conference. “They feel a kindred spirit with the folks of the Palestinian community,” Mr. Banks said, adding that the “notion that these kids are radicalized” was irresponsible. On Monday, Mr. Banks and other city leaders attempted to quell the mounting online backlash against students at the school. Some Hillcrest students had openly discussed their plans in the lead-up to Nov. 20, the two teachers said.

Persons: David C, Banks, “, ”, Eric Adams, ” Melinda Katz, councilwoman, Queens —, “ What’s, Eric Dinowitz, Mr, Adams, Donovan Richards, Muhammad Ghazali Organizations: Queens, Hillcrest High, Israel, New York Post, Hillcrest, Twitter, City, Jewish, of Education, ”, Department of Education Locations: York City, Israel, Queens, Hillcrest, borough’s, “, San Francisco, “ Palestine, New York City, Jamaica, ”

A 5-year-old boy and his mother were found fatally stabbed in their Bronx apartment on Sunday, and the boy’s father was found stabbed to death in the hallway. Authorities have not released the name of the suspect in the case, but officers are questioning a close relative, according to a police official familiar with the investigation. On Monday, Mr. Rivera’s father, Miguel Angel Rivera, 60, stood outside his son’s building. He rested his head on a news van and began to sob. “I want to see you, I want to see you,” he said, crying.

Persons: Jonathan Rivera, Hanoi Peralta, Kayden —, Rivera’s, Miguel Angel Rivera, “, ” Organizations: Authorities Locations: Cypress, Mott Haven

☆ The N.Y.P.D. Is Upgrading Its Radios. The Public Won’t Be Able to Tune In.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Chelsia Rose Marcius | More About Chelsia Rose Marcius | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

John Roca cruised through Midtown Manhattan on a recent night just as the streetlights flicked on, his camera in the back seat of his sedan. It had been a slow day for Mr. Roca, a photojournalist who has chased breaking news in New York City for a half-century. “This one might have legs,” Mr. Roca said, and he punched the car’s accelerator. But a new $500 million radio system the New York Police Department introduced this past summer encrypts officers’ communications, meaning the public, including members of the press, will no longer be able to listen in. The project will take at least five years to complete, though some frequencies have already gone dark.

Persons: John Roca, Roca, Mr Organizations: New York Police Department Locations: Midtown Manhattan, New York City

A landlord was arrested and charged with murdering his tenants on Tuesday after three people were found stabbed to death in the bedrooms of a Queens home. The man, David Daniel, 54, turned himself in at a police station Tuesday morning and confessed, said Joseph Kenny, the New York City Police Department’s chief of detectives. Mr. Daniel told the police that two of the victims were his tenants and that they had not paid the rent. Mr. Daniel was “very matter-of-fact” when he approached officers at the precinct, Chief Kenny said. He was charged with murder and is in custody.

Persons: David Daniel, Joseph Kenny, Daniel, Daniel’s, Kenny Organizations: Queens, New York City Police Department’s Locations: St, Albans

The law is more burdensome than “red flag” laws in other states, which do not require taking people into custody and evaluating them. When the Sheriff’s Office received the Army report in mid-September, Sgt. Aaron Skolfield went to do a welfare check but did not find Mr. Card. Instead, Sergeant Skolfield worked with Ryan Card, who said he and his father had come up with a way to secure Mr. Card’s weapons. But Robert Card, it said, still “had access to his firearms prior to the shootings.”John Ismay and Dave Philipps contributed reporting.

Persons: Aaron Skolfield, Sergeant Skolfield, Ryan Card, Ryan, Robert Card, “, ” John Ismay, Dave Philipps, Kirsten Noyes Organizations: Sheriff’s, Army Locations: Sagadahoc

Six weeks before an Army reservist fatally shot 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, the police received alarming warnings that the reservist had grown increasingly paranoid, had punched a friend and had said he was going to carry out a shooting spree. But no law enforcement officials ever made contact with him, according to records released on Monday. The warnings about the reservist, Robert R. Card II, 40, were far more explicit than Maine officials have publicly acknowledged in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting, America’s deadliest mass shooting this year. They came from Mr. Card’s family members and his Army Reserve unit in Saco, Maine, and were investigated by the Sheriff’s Office in Sagadahoc County, where he lived. The Reserve also told the Sheriff’s Office that Mr. Card had been treated at a psychiatric hospital for two weeks in July before being released.

Persons: Robert R, Card’s, Card Organizations: Mr, Army Reserve, Sheriff’s Locations: Lewiston , Maine, Maine, Saco , Maine, Sagadahoc County, Saco, ”

☆ Maine Gunman Disclosed He Had Mental Health Issues, Gun Shop Owner Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-29 | by ( Chelsia Rose Marcius | More About Chelsia Rose Marcius | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

During a recent visit to a National Guard training facility outside Peekskill, N.Y., Mr. Card, an Army reservist, had a run-in with officials and was later evaluated at a mental health facility, according to a senior law enforcement official. But the Maine commissioner of public safety said on Saturday that he had no information to suggest that Mr. Card had ever been forcibly committed for mental health treatment. It is unclear whether he had admitted to his mental health issues in previous forms that are typically required at the time of purchasing the weapons. The staff at the gun shop waited until Mr. Card signed the document before declining to give him the silencer. Mr. Card, in response, “was very cordial, very polite,” Mr. LaChapelle said.

Persons: Card, “, LaChapelle, Mr Organizations: National Guard, Army Locations: Peekskill, N.Y, Maine, Lewiston

Sheriff Merry declined to comment in detail about the reported threats, and it was unclear whether any other departments that received the sheriff’s alert had tried to locate Mr. Card. It was not immediately clear how often such alerts are issued; two law enforcement leaders in Maine said on Saturday that they receive many and did not recall receiving the alert about Mr. Card. Mr. Card enlisted in the Reserve in 2002 and was trained as a petroleum supply specialist, whose work involved shipping and storing fuel; he did not serve on any combat deployments. Earlier on Saturday, the commissioner of the public safety department said that Mr. Card had been paranoid and may have been hearing voices. Mr. Sauschuck said he had no information to suggest that Mr. Card had ever been forcibly committed for mental health treatment.

Persons: Sheriff Merry, Card, Michael J, Sauschuck, ”, Mr Organizations: Maine Department of Public, Associated Press, Sheriff, Pentagon, Card, National Guard Locations: Maine, Peekskill, N.Y

The official said that Mr. Card was later evaluated at a mental health facility. Mr. Card was in his hometown, Bowdoin, to hunt deer as recently as last fall, a neighbor of his family said. Robert has a brother who had also been in the military and a younger sister, Mr. Goddard said. At the address for the Card family home, no one answered the door on Thursday, and there was only one car parked out front. “We’re on edge right now because we know this is his stomping area,” Mr. Goddard said.

Persons: Robert R, ” Col, William G, Ross, Card, Camp Smith, Bryce Dubee, Dubee, Bowdoin, Rick Goddard, Robert, Goddard, Card’s, Mr Organizations: Maine State Police, Pentagon, Army Reserve, 3rd Battalion, 304th Infantry Regiment, Army, Police, National Guard, West, Subaru, Bowdoin, Mr Locations: Maine, Lewiston, U.S, Saco , Maine, West, Card’s, Lisbon

The unprovoked attack has unnerved a city deeply reliant on the subway as its lifeline. On Wednesday, the woman was on the platform of the Fifth Avenue-53rd Street station waiting for an E train. Mr. Jones approached and shoved her against a departing train, sending her onto the subway tracks after her head hit a car, Chief Kemper said. He saw Mr. Jones screaming and was quickly walking away when Mr. Jones came up from behind, he said. Mr. Jones punched him in the left side of his face and fractured his jaw before fleeing, the man said.

Persons: Jones, Kemper Organizations: Street, Queens

☆ Fourth Suspect in Fentanyl Day Care Death Arrested in Mexico
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Chelsia Rose Marcius | More About Chelsia Rose Marcius | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A man wanted in connection with the fatal fentanyl poisoning of a 1-year-old boy at a Bronx day care this month was arrested in Mexico on Tuesday by federal agents, local and federal law enforcement officials said. Earlier on Tuesday, New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said that Mr. Herrera had been on the run for nearly two weeks after fleeing the home-based day care on Sept. 15. Mr. Herrera, who has not yet been charged, is the fourth person to be arrested in connection with the death of the boy, Nicholas Feliz Dominici. The police worked with federal and Mexican officials to capture Mr. Herrera, officials said. Officials had expected Mr. Herrera to attempt to return to the Dominican Republic, where he is from.

Persons: Felix Herrera, Joseph Kenny, Mr, Herrera, Nicholas Feliz Dominici, Kenny Organizations: New York Police Department, Police, , New York Police Department Chief Locations: Mexico, ,, Texas, Dominican Republic

A woman and a 14-year-old girl were found dead inside a Brooklyn apartment on Monday, the authorities said, prompting an investigation into the killings that are the latest to unsettle New York City. The woman, 37, was found dead in the living room with multiple stab wounds, including on her face, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to publicly discuss details of the case. The teenager was found beside the woman, and a dead dog was found beside them with a bag over its head, the official said. The killings occurred in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn, according to a spokesman for the New York Police Department.

Organizations: unsettle New, New York Police Department Locations: Brooklyn, unsettle New York City, East Flatbush

☆ Third Suspect Arrested in Death at Day Care Where Fentanyl Was Found
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-25 | by ( Chelsia Rose Marcius | More About Chelsia Rose Marcius | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A third person has been charged in the death of a 1-year-old boy who died after being exposed to fentanyl at a home-based Bronx day care, federal prosecutors said on Monday. The man, Renny Antonio Parra Paredes, was charged in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Monday with conspiracy to distribute narcotics that resulted in the boy’s death, according to a news release from the Southern District of New York. The charges also relate to the poisoning of three other children exposed to fentanyl at the day care, which was run out of an apartment where Mr. Paredes was living, prosecutors said. He remains in custody pending his next court appearance. Grei Mendez, 36, who ran the day care, and Carlisto Acevedo Brito, a 41-year-old man who lived in the apartment, also were charged with murder after the death of Nicholas Feliz Dominici this month.

Persons: Renny Antonio Parra Paredes, Paredes, Grei Mendez, Carlisto Acevedo Brito, Nicholas Feliz Organizations: Court, Southern, of Locations: Manhattan, of New York

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