Saturday, July 24, 2010

Astoria, Corona and St. Albans murders

From the NY Times:

A 41-year-old man with a long arrest record was fatally shot, execution-style, just before dawn on Saturday on a street in Astoria, Queens, officials said.

Gunshots rang out on 28th Street, off Ditmars Boulevard, at about 5 a.m., startling neighbors, some outside for a morning walk and others who looked out of their windows to see the victim lying on the ground.

Detectives said that they did not believe the victim was robbed, and that they were pursuing the possibility that the killing was drug-related.

Officials said the dead man, whom they did not immediately identify by name, was a resident of Long Island who had been arrested several times since 1987.

The killing was one of four violent deaths that occurred between late Friday and early Saturday, a burst of three homicides and one death under suspicious circumstances.

On Friday night, officers from the 113th Precinct in Queens responded to a 911 call about a woman discovered lying unconscious in an alleyway on Leslie Road, in the St. Albans neighborhood. Paramedics declared the woman, who had no identification, dead.

The woman had marks on her wrists that may indicate that she had recently been bound, a law enforcement official said. Her face was swollen and her back was bruised, the official said.

A cause of death will be determined by an autopsy, according to the police, who have yet to rule the case a homicide.

Also in Queens, at 2:14 a.m., a 41-year-old man died after two assailants punched him and beat him with a chain, officials said. The attack occurred at 103rd Street and 41st Avenue, in Corona.

Officers working as part of the Police Department’s Operation Impact, which floods officers into high-crime areas, saw two men running and caught them, the police said. The suspects, both in their 20s and both from Corona, were arrested, the police said. A motive in the killing was still being investigated.

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

Crime is clearly on its way back up.

Anonymous said...

You can't have a city where the poulation increases every year and cut 6,000 cops from the payroll.

Anonymous said...

Get rid of the illegal alliens and crime will go down. It has only just begone, things are gonna get worse befor they get better.

Anonymous said...

Illegal immigrants are not the problem, placing more cops in the streets is not the solution. I lived and was raised in this neighborhood, the "hot sheets motels", the "chikas, chikas" and all the "bars" in the area that have underage women working in these bars to get paid for dancing w costumers ARE the problem!! You're telling me illegal immigrants run this hood? When I've walked from the 7th train to Northern @ 2 am (from work) and all I saw was cops walking down these streets yet do nothing but laugh @ the drunken guys who r barfing in the streeet!!! The city knows these places exist, close them down and you will see some serious clensing!!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Anonymous said...

would you please tell us how you absolutely know that the illegal aliens are not responsible for the crime increase in queens?

in a "sanctuary city" no city employee is permitted to identify their status when arrested.

this violates the federal laws ,which the present Holder D.O.J. is using to sue the state of arizona.

arizona wants to follow the federal law beginning July 29,2010.

Anonymous said...

Please give me a break! Stop blaming Immigrants for everything that's happening in the world.
They actually come to the US to work there asses off and look what they get in return.

Hispanics are not the only ones who come illegally to this country...italians,irish,germans... You name it..

No wonder third world countries see us as spoiled,vulnerable and ignorant.. Seriously America needs to wake up and smell the coffee and stop blaming others.
And acting as if "hispanics" are talking control...which can be true since they shut there mouths, listen, and obey what they are told to do

Anonymous said...

Of course! Illegal aliens (not immigrants) don't bring crime with them. Forget the fact that the word "illegal" is part of their definition...

Anonymous said...

I've never been jumped/robbed by illegal aliens. Just saying.

Anonymous said...

You haven't. But lots of others have.

Anonymous said...

And the vast majority of crime perpetrators are fully legal Americans. Look it up.

The anon commenter three or four comments up has it right. This country wouldn't exist were it not for immigration, legal or otherwise (and who determines legality, after all?). Most immigrants are here to work hard, and know that doing otherwise would do damage to their mission of building a better life for themselves and their families. Most crimes are carried out by people who have lived here all their lives and still have found it impossible to achieve the American dream. They have given up. First generations don't fall to that desperation so quickly.

Your bigotry would benefit from a dose of common sense.

Queens Crapper said...

Better educate yourself before you call people bigots.

Anony2 said...

Please give me a break! Stop blaming Immigrants for everything that's happening in the world.
They actually come to the US to work there asses off and look what they get in return.
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We are not blaming immigrants for everything that's happening in the world. We are blaming ILLEGAL immigrants for SOME of the stuff that is happening HERE.


Hispanics are not the only ones who come illegally to this country...italians,irish,germans... You name it..
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I'm sorry, did a poster before you say anthing about Hispanics? They must of taken that post down, because I don't see it.


And acting as if "hispanics" are talking control...which can be true since they shut there mouths, listen, and obey what they are told to do
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"talking control?" I don't what they talk about, because it's not in English.
"which can be true since they shut there mouths, listen, and obey what they are told to do"
I think you mean can't not can.
"..there.." mouths?
I think you need a better grasp of English.
"...obey what they are told to do" Like have documents to be here legally?


No wonder third world countries see us as spoiled,vulnerable and ignorant.. Seriously America needs to wake up and smell the coffee and stop blaming others.
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I'm glad you know what third worlders' are thinking. If we suck so bad, why do they all want to come here?
"...stop blaming others.."
No we blame the ones among us like you, who keep voting to oil the wheels of the machine.

Anonymous said...

Anon$4: Having more cops(and an administration that backs them) does deter crime.Go back to the Bill Bratton era.39,000 cops out on the strees.Now we have less than 33,000.Housing and Transit bureau's have about 40% of the personnel they had in 1995.Add the extra 1000 or "assigned" to counterterrorism and you see the shortfall.Get a gun,good locks and some bright lights.

Anonymous said...

All this crime is caused by all these places to get wasted. Who comes out of there way to come to Astoria unless its for something useless. All these places that we have here to get wasted are people who don't even live here and have no life. If the law is not enforced then they keep multiplying just like a cocka roach if you don't black flag it their will be more so they need to exterminate the gargage that comes here. How simple is that.

Anonymous said...

I'm anon4: the reason why i commented on this post was bc one of those 4 murders that happened that night (7/23) hit very close...im separated by that person by one degree. When i was 4 months pregnant a Dominican cat stepped out of a bar rt off the 103rd stop, and said obscene words @ me...was not the 1st time, but I've had it with men like him who have no respect towards women. I cried that night but i was proud i stood up, and hoped bc of what i had done, he'd think twice b4 disrespecting women again. So where am i getting at? FILTHY PPL!!! (not Dominicans, but the ppl that go to these bars). If you read carefully, I said close those bars down and many problems will be solved!!- DUI's: GONE!, "Hot sheets motels"- GONE! YES, i read the other posts on here and it saddens me to see that ppl comment and take these things as a joke, when in fact its very serious. Corona, is not a dangerous place to live, its really these places that promote filth and poison our community, AIDS cases are also increasing go wonder why?! So here it is ppl stop the damn ignorance bc you know very well that illegal immigration is not the problem. Illegal Dominican immigrants made it as far as being the owners of "bodegas", barbershops, restaurants, you name it. Also, remember that the very same "bars" I speak of were once restaurants, and I saw the progression 1st hand in my neighborhood...but unfortunately, I also witnessed a regression. Yes, I blame the police bc many a time I walked home from work and saw many cops on foot patrol doing nothing but laughing @ the drunk men throwing up all over the streets, when they should have been arresting them. I now live in L.A but this death just inspired me to do something about the matter, I left Corona, I left NY, but I will not turn my back on my ppl! I will not allow for my neice, nephews, brothers, sisters, old friends and old neighbors AND my own child to walk these streets in FEAR! YOU LIVE IN QUEENS YOU SHOULD DO SOMETHING!!!

Anonymous said...

So if the bars on Roosevelt avenue were closed down the Hells Angel member wouldn't have been shot dead?

Anonymous said...

That fact is crimes are committed by desperate people. Weither they are illegal,mentally ill, mob/drug related or even a hard working american which is down on his/her luck with this economy. Without money the person that is mentally ill cant afford their medication/ therapy. That just one reason why crimes go up and to blame a certain groups "statis" for crimes is plain pig headed. We are in desperate times people and in times like this crime WILL go up. Human kind has proven that time and time again.

astorians.com chimes in said...

http://www.astorians.com/community/index.php?topic=18928.0

call Mr Vallone, he cares .... things were a lot worse years ago ... its the Mayor's fault....

Anonymous said...

hey what happens in astoria stays in astoria, right?

we aint got no problem.

Anonymous said...

Better educate yourself before you call people bigots.

Oh, touche. Nice selection of one source - six years old, pre-housing and banking collapse. The criminal landscape has changed considerably since 2004, Dear Crap.

And by the way, it is widely known that most Loyal Fans of Crap are overtly bigoted.

Queens Crapper said...

And in 6 years all the illegals became law abiding and stopped joining gangs? I mean really, are you saying that because the article cited was "pre-housing and banking collapse" that what was written in it is no longer true?

And it is "widely known" by whom that Loyal Fans of Crap are overtly bigoted? The tweeders or the tweeded?