Dec. 13, 2023 By Bill Parry
An East Elmhurst man was indicted for the murder of his landlady after a rent dispute turned deadly, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Wednesday.
Dec. 7, 2023 By Bill Parry An East Elmhurst teenager was arrested Dec. 5 and charged with with murder for allegedly killing his landlord in a dispute over back rent, according to the NYPD. Davi Vidal, 19, of 96th Street, was taken into custody and booked at the 115th Precinct in Jackson Heights for allegedly…
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Dec. 4, 2023 By Bill Parry Five Queens men are facing kidnapping and murder charges for luring a restaurant deliveryman to a location in Flushing in July, where he was abducted for ransom and eventually beaten to death before he was buried in a shallow grave in a New Hampshire forest, according to federal prosecutors. Jiangnan Lin, 22, and Dong Liu, 35, along with Sui Zhang, 22, Donxing Zheng, 28, and Wangchao He, 29, all of Queens, were indicted by a federal grand jury in White Plains in connection with the kidnapping of Peng Cheng Li, which resulted in his…
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Nov. 17, 2023 By Bill Parry A Jamaica gang leader was sentenced to life in prison on Nov. 15 in Brooklyn federal court for gunning down a rival during a drive-by shooting in front of a Springfield Gardens bodega in 2019. Christopher “Essay” Acevedo, 28, the founder and leader of the Wood City gang, was…
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Nov. 15, 2023 By Bill Parry Detectives out of the 109th Precinct in Flushing have identified a prime suspect in an ongoing homicide investigation into the fatal shooting of a College Point man in January 2022. Investigators believe 59-year-old Zhang Ming was the trigger man who gunned down 44-year-old Dihao Song, of 128th Street, in…
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Nov. 15, 2023 By Dean Moses The Queens landlord accused of killing his two tenants and his girlfriend over rent disputes told the press he was “under pressure” during his perp walk on Wednesday. David Daniel, 54, was walked out of the 13th Precinct just before 1:30 p.m. by detectives after spending 24 hours…
Nov. 14, 2023 By Dean Moses A man gave himself up to police on Tuesday morning after stabbing three people to death inside a Queens home, authorities said. According to police sources, at around 7:16 a.m. on Nov. 14, cops rushed to 122-39 Milburn St. in St. Albans, where they discovered three people dead.…
Nov. 7, 2023 By Ethan Marshall
The number of murders throughout Queens has halved this year compared to the same time in 2022, according the latest crime stats released by the NYPD on Nov. 5.
Oct. 11, 2023 By Bill Parry The president of a Manhattan-based construction company and a California man were convicted of murder-for-hire and murder-for-hire conspiracy in connection with the 2019 killing of a man at a Flushing karaoke bar. A federal jury in Brooklyn returned a guilty verdict on Oct. 11 on both counts of an indictment charging Qing Ming “Allen” Yu, 55, of Oyster Bay, and Zhe “Zac” Zhang, 35, of Arcadia, Calif., in the killing of 31-year-old Xin “Chris” Gu, who worked at Yu’s company outside the Grand Slam KTV bar of Fowler Avenue. As proven at trial, Allen…
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Sept. 21, 2023 By Michael Dorgan A suspect who was wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a man near the Woodside Houses NYCHA complex in June has been apprehended after having fled to Virginia, according to the NYPD. Police nabbed Dewayne Boone, 35, in Chester, Va., on Sept. 1 and brought him back… Read more »