Mar. 22, 2023 By Bill Parry A South Jamaica man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the fatal shooting of an Elmont, Long Island, man in 2021, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced on March 22. Edson Giron Figueroa, 21, of 108th Avenue, had pleaded guilty last month to manslaughter in the second…
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Mar. 15, 2023 By Bill Parry
A Redfern Houses resident and his accomplice from South Jamaica were arrested and charged with murder on March 15 in connection with the fatal shooting of a former high school basketball star from Long Island at the NYCHA complex in Far Rockaway last summer.
Feb. 27, 2023 By Bill Parry The NYPD marked the 35th anniversary of the assassination of Police Officer Edward Byrne early Sunday morning at the South Jamaica corner where he was killed in the line of duty on Feb. 26, 1988, as he sat in a patrol car protecting a family who had enough of…
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Feb. 27, 2023 By Bill Parry Two people were shot at the Baisley Houses in South Jamaica Sunday evening, and police are still searching for the gunman. The incident occurred shortly after 6 p.m. on Feb. 26, when the alleged perpetrator approached a man and a woman standing near the front door of the NYCHA…
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