Feb. 19, 2025 By Bill Parry Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Wednesday the release of surveillance video of the cold case murder of an off-duty Rikers Island correction officer in Springfield Gardens more than four years ago. During the early morning hours of Aug. 15, 2020, 28-year-old NYC Correction Officer John Jeff was…
Queens police are on the hunt for the suspect who shot a man dead on Saturday night. Police said the victim — Sherman Walker, 51, of Francis Lewis Boulevard in Queens — was gunned down at the corner of 204th Street and Murdock Avenue in St. Albans at about 6 p.m. on Jan. 18.…
Dec. 10, 2024 By Bill Parry Southeast Queens gang leader Junior Zelaya Canales pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court on Monday for his role in three murders and multiple shootings during a reign of terror that spanned New York, Texas, and El Salvador. Junior Zelaya Canales, 28, of Jamaica, pled guilty to racketeering conspiracy…
Oct. 4, 2024 By Bill Parry An 18-year-old reputed gang member is being held without bail after he was criminally charged with murder for allegedly firing multiple gunshots at a car, killing another teenager, outside a McDonald’s in Springfield Gardens on the night of Friday, Sept. 27. Rayvon Philip, of 167th Street in Jamaica,…
Mar. 13, 2024 By Athena Dawson A group of New York City Council Members representing southeast Queens and the Bronx has introduced a package of bills that aims to address social media addiction and gun violence. The bills call on the city to study the effects of social media on the mental health of adolescents;…
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Queens detectives are investigating the death of a woman found fatally shot inside her home on Thursday morning.
An unhinged man in Queens was taken into custody on Sunday night after allegedly firing shots from a rooftop authorities said.
Sep. 2, 2023 By Robert Pozarycki Police arrested an upstate New York man who was subsequently charged with murder one day after an early-morning shooting in South Richmond Hill that left a 31-year-old man dead. Law enforcement sources said the murder happened at about 4:19 a.m. on Sept. 2 near a home on 125th Street,…
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