Two men arrested on mothers day in the bronx..
How does a party for a 1-year-old turn into a shootout", that's what Gladys Wright reportedly asked, after finding out that her 16-year-old granddaughter, Quanisha Wright, had been shot and killed Sunday morning, along with 15-year-old Marvin Wiggins Junior. Early Monday morning, police announced two arrests for the murders: 24-year-old Robert Mitchell and 20-year-old Dexter Green. Both men are Bronx residents, as are the victims. But it's not clear whether they knew each other before the violent confrontation early Sunday.
It happened at a baby's first birthday party, in an apartment at 1776 Weeks Avenue in the Mount Hope neighborhood. The suspects reportedly returned to the party with a gun after one of them was beaten up for touching a woman inappropriately earlier in the evening. A 20-year-old woman was shot in the arm, but her injuries are not life-threatening.
Quanisha was a student at the Bronx Leadership Academy, according to the Daily News. "She'd just had her first kiss. She was growing up and loving life. She was a wonderful kid," said her father's fiancee, Kenya Graham. "She was such a good child."
Marvin was shot while shielding someone else's mother from the gunman, according to the Times. "He did a courageous thing," said a woman who identified herself as Marvin's aunt. "Everybody loved that boy," said his father, Marvin Wiggins Sr., in an interview with the Post.
"I said, 'Marvin,' don't leave me," Mr. Wiggins said, after finding his son had been shot. "He said, 'No, Pop. I'm never going to leave you.'"
It happened at a baby's first birthday party, in an apartment at 1776 Weeks Avenue in the Mount Hope neighborhood. The suspects reportedly returned to the party with a gun after one of them was beaten up for touching a woman inappropriately earlier in the evening. A 20-year-old woman was shot in the arm, but her injuries are not life-threatening.
Quanisha was a student at the Bronx Leadership Academy, according to the Daily News. "She'd just had her first kiss. She was growing up and loving life. She was a wonderful kid," said her father's fiancee, Kenya Graham. "She was such a good child."
Marvin was shot while shielding someone else's mother from the gunman, according to the Times. "He did a courageous thing," said a woman who identified herself as Marvin's aunt. "Everybody loved that boy," said his father, Marvin Wiggins Sr., in an interview with the Post.
"I said, 'Marvin,' don't leave me," Mr. Wiggins said, after finding his son had been shot. "He said, 'No, Pop. I'm never going to leave you.'"
Oct 17th and 16th 2 dead, including a baby allegedly beating by his father!
Elijah Rodriguez, an 8-month-old Latino baby, was beaten to death in the West Farms section of the Bronx Tuesday, allegedly by his father who had been babysitting for him while the boy's mother went to work, according to stories in the daily news . Little Elijah previously had suffered a broken arm and his case was being monitored by the Administration for Child Services. Elijah and his mother Wanda Rosado, 21, had been living in a Bronx homeless shelter but Rosado asked the baby's father John Rodriguez to fill in for his regular babysitter, the stories reported.
Rodriguez, 21, wound up bringing his son to the Bronx Health Center on Washington Avenue and telling workers the boy was vomiting. They noted the suspicious bruise on the boy's stomach, where Rodriguez had allegedly punched him, and notified authorities. Elijah was taken to Lincoln Hospital for emergency surgery but later died.
Rodriguez was arrested Wednesday and charged with murder and manslaughter.
Rodriguez, 21, wound up bringing his son to the Bronx Health Center on Washington Avenue and telling workers the boy was vomiting. They noted the suspicious bruise on the boy's stomach, where Rodriguez had allegedly punched him, and notified authorities. Elijah was taken to Lincoln Hospital for emergency surgery but later died.
Rodriguez was arrested Wednesday and charged with murder and manslaughter.
Bronx body count rising fast this year, 70 killing so far keeps going up
is seeing a dramatic spike in murders so far this year.
But the body count is a far cry from even recent years, when the grittiest precincts in the borough saw homicide tallies in the high double digits.
Shootings, however, are way up, with guns seemingly everywhere.
Also up are rapes and robberies, while assaults, burglaries, grand larcenies and auto thefts have inched down.
Overall, crime in the borough showed a decline of 2.8%, compared with a citywide decrease of 2.98%.
The latest ! 2 nypd crime numbers for the first six months of this year, through June 29, show 69 homicides reported throughout the borough's 12 precincts, compared with 56 for the same period last year, a 23.2% jump. There were a total of 130 murders in all of 2007.
Citywide, murders were reported up 8.2%, with 250 victims compared with 231 last year, which saw a total of 496 persons killed. Recent previous years had shown steady declines in the murder rate.
At the borough's worst point during the crack epidemic of the '90s, its streets were running red with up to 600 homicides annually.
"It was the Wild West back then, with murders across the city hitting 2,000," said one veteran Bronx commander who worked narcotics in those days.
Some Bronx precincts recorded close to 25% hikes in homicides, while others showed equal declines. All but one, however, had fewer than a dozen murders.
The rough-and-tumble 44th Precinct in racked up the highest number of murders in the borough - 11 - compared to nine last year, for a percentage jump of 22.2%
But the body count is a far cry from even recent years, when the grittiest precincts in the borough saw homicide tallies in the high double digits.
Shootings, however, are way up, with guns seemingly everywhere.
Also up are rapes and robberies, while assaults, burglaries, grand larcenies and auto thefts have inched down.
Overall, crime in the borough showed a decline of 2.8%, compared with a citywide decrease of 2.98%.
The latest ! 2 nypd crime numbers for the first six months of this year, through June 29, show 69 homicides reported throughout the borough's 12 precincts, compared with 56 for the same period last year, a 23.2% jump. There were a total of 130 murders in all of 2007.
Citywide, murders were reported up 8.2%, with 250 victims compared with 231 last year, which saw a total of 496 persons killed. Recent previous years had shown steady declines in the murder rate.
At the borough's worst point during the crack epidemic of the '90s, its streets were running red with up to 600 homicides annually.
"It was the Wild West back then, with murders across the city hitting 2,000," said one veteran Bronx commander who worked narcotics in those days.
Some Bronx precincts recorded close to 25% hikes in homicides, while others showed equal declines. All but one, however, had fewer than a dozen murders.
The rough-and-tumble 44th Precinct in racked up the highest number of murders in the borough - 11 - compared to nine last year, for a percentage jump of 22.2%
Bronx Murder -Riverbat 120 casals place in the bronx
Mr. Valenzuela, of 120 Casals Place in the Bronx, was fired from the RiverBay Corporation, the management company that runs Co-op City, in 2005. Last year, he filed a federal lawsuit to get his job back. The case was dismissed on Friday.
Before he was fired, Mr. Valenzuela had been suspended three times since 2000 for threatening co-workers.
According to the Police Department, Mr. Valenzuela fatally shot a RiverBay supervisor, Audley Bent, 49, of Rosedale, Queens, in the basement of 2440 Hunter Avenue, at 7:50 a.m.
Mr. Valenzuela then walked outside the building, and on the street, wounded two more men, Sander Palaj and Phil Zudrima, both also employees of RiverBay. Mr. Palaj was wounded in the neck and Mr. Zudrima, a supervisor, in the arm. The two wounded men were taken to Jacobi Hospital, the police said.
The gunman then took a bus to the Bronx Criminal Court building, at 215 East 161st Street, and turned himself in.
The building where the shootings occurred is known as Building 26, part of Section 5 of Co-op City, a 15,372-unit housing development that includes 35 high-rise buildings and 7 townhouse complexes.
Assemblyman Michael Benedetto, a Bronx Democrat who represents the neighborhood, was at the scene of the shooting around 8:30 a.m. “There were dozens of police officers, from the city and from Co-op City’s own police force,” he said. “There were ambulances there on the scene. People were calm.”
In February 2006, Mr. Valenzuela filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in Manhattan seeking to be reinstated. The lawsuit reveals a troubled history full of conflicts with fellow workers and supervisors.
According to the lawsuit, Mr. Valenzuela is a native of the Dominican Republic and worked for RiverBay from 1994 to 2005 in the janitorial division, spending most of his time as a porter and lobby cleaner and attendant and maintaining basement laundry rooms.
Bronx Murder Castle hill
CASTLE HILL - TORRY AVE An 18-year-old woman that was shot and killed over the weekend in the Bronx and her boyfriend was arrested and charged in connection with her murder. Carlos Cruz, 36, is accused of hiring his cousin to kill his girlfriend and make it look like a robbery gone bad. Authorities say that Cruz made arrangements with his cousin Devon Miller, 25, and agreed to meet Miller in a secluded section of the Bronx on Sunday, where Miller was going to murder Chelsea M. Frazier. Police say that Cruz and his cousin made the shooting look like a robbery but in reality the incident was motivated because Cruz was having troubles in hi relationship with his girlfriend. Cruz is accused of paying his cousin $1,000 to kill the young woman. Residents that live in the secluded neighborhood say that the shooting was bizarre because it seemed unlikely that a family from Massachusetts could end up in such a secluded part of the Bronx and that a criminal would strike on a little-traveled road. Cruz's cousin was the first to confess to the crime because detectives questioned Cruz about a minor gunshot wound to his leg and investigators said that Cruz's story raised a lot of doubts. Cruz told detectives that he, his girlfriend and their infant son drove to the Bronx from Massachusetts to visit family and to shop and spend time together to work on their relationship. Cruz told his relatives and investigators that the couple got lost after visiting some stores and they were getting hungry so they pulled over to the side of a road and that is when a man walked up to the car and demanded Cruz's chain and a struggle took place and the gun went of and shot and killed Frazier. Authorities say that is not the truth and what happen was that Cruz's cousin came to the door and shot Frazier and ran. Authorities than say that Cruz got out of the car and yelled to Miller that he forgot to shoot him and Miller than fired a bullet in Cruz's leg, which caused a minor injury. A witness account of the shooting is what triggered investigators' suspicions but authorities already doubted Cruz's story but they continued to look into the case to see if he was robbed by a drug dealer. Once the witness came forward the drug dealer theory went right out the window. Miller was eventually tracked down and than confessed to what really happen and than investigators confronted Cruz. Miller lived less than a mile from the crime scene. Cruz spent only one night at a Bronx hospital and was arrested when he was released. The couple's son, who was in the vehicle during the incident, was unharmed during the shooting and the boy is now with his grandparents. If this guy wanted out of his relationship than he should have dealt with it in a different way and now because of his actions his son will probably be traumatized by this event.
Bronx Double Murder Suspect still at large!
May 9, 2010 2:00 pm US/Eastern Bronx Double Murder Suspects Still At Large - BRONX ― Click to enlarge 1 of 1 AP
The NYPD was investigating a double murder in the Bronx Sunday.
Police said three people were shot overnight on Weeks Avenue in the Mount Hope section. There was a party in the building.
After a dispute, one group left the party but returned later. That's when the shooting occurred in the lobby.
Two of the victims have died. Another is hospitalized in stable condition.
No suspects were in custody.
The NYPD was investigating a double murder in the Bronx Sunday.
Police said three people were shot overnight on Weeks Avenue in the Mount Hope section. There was a party in the building.
After a dispute, one group left the party but returned later. That's when the shooting occurred in the lobby.
Two of the victims have died. Another is hospitalized in stable condition.
No suspects were in custody.
2010-03-22
A 23-year-old bronxman was arrested on Sunday and charged with murdering his companion’s 22-month-old daughter, the police have said. The city medical - examiner’s office said she had been beaten to death. The man, Ramel Green of Clay Avenue, was charged with second-degree murderd in the death of the toddler, Sanaa Brewington, who was found in her mother’s apartment at 820 Colgate...
Bronx - 15 murder spree
15-Year-Old Sharell Butler was known on the streets as Lady Red. Before being charged with two gruesome murders Sharell, a member of the Bloods, already had been arrested for assault twice. Now she is being charged in the brutal murders of two men targeted by her and her gang affiliates for robbery and to settle old scores. At the tender age of 15 Sharell Butler is now being charged as an adult in murders considered shocking and brutal even by New York City standards. Early This year her boyfriend was also charged, but remains as a suspect for helping lady red tamper with the crime seen.
Sharell Butler, 15, seemed so slight that those who knew her wondered how she could have done what she stands accused of doing: killing two men in the span of 48 hours.
Ms. Butler has been charged with murder, manslaughter, assault and weapon possession in the death of Mr. Hopkins-Drago, 22, of 548 Edison Avenue. His mutilated body was found in a plastic bag on Dec. 21 outside 2161 Barnes Avenue, less than two miles from her home and, according to the complaint, about four blocks from the apartment where he was killed, on Pelham Parkway South. He had been stabbed more than 30 times in what the authorities have called a gang attack.
She also faces second-degree murder and robbery charges in the death of Mr. Umpierre, 24. The police said he was killed during a botched holdup in an apartment at 2829 Dewey Avenue, in the Bronx, on Dec. 19.
Ms. Butler also pleaded not guilty for the murder and robbery....
Sharell Butler, 15, seemed so slight that those who knew her wondered how she could have done what she stands accused of doing: killing two men in the span of 48 hours.
Ms. Butler has been charged with murder, manslaughter, assault and weapon possession in the death of Mr. Hopkins-Drago, 22, of 548 Edison Avenue. His mutilated body was found in a plastic bag on Dec. 21 outside 2161 Barnes Avenue, less than two miles from her home and, according to the complaint, about four blocks from the apartment where he was killed, on Pelham Parkway South. He had been stabbed more than 30 times in what the authorities have called a gang attack.
She also faces second-degree murder and robbery charges in the death of Mr. Umpierre, 24. The police said he was killed during a botched holdup in an apartment at 2829 Dewey Avenue, in the Bronx, on Dec. 19.
Ms. Butler also pleaded not guilty for the murder and robbery....