MURDER:
Five Years Later, Husband Charged With UWS Wife’s Murder
(20th precinct)
The Manhattan district attorney announced on November 2 that Roderick Covlin, a resident of New Rochelle, has been indicted on two counts of second-degree murder in a case that had gone unsolved since late 2009.
At 7 a.m. on December 31 of that year, Shele Danishefsky Covlin, his estranged wife, was found dead inside the bathtub of her apartment at 155 West 68th Street. Four months later, the Medical Examiner’s Office deemed the case a homicide.
“An investigation over the ensuing years has resulted in her husband being charged with her murder,” said Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. “It is our hope that this prosecution will bring justice for Ms. Danishefsky Covlin, and provide closure to her grieving family and friends.”
SHOOTING:
Dirt Bike Drive By
(28th precinct)
Police are on the lookout for three males who shot at a 49-year-old man in front of his building at West 118th Street on October 27 at around 2 p.m. Police said the three suspects, approximately 18 to 25 years old, approached the victim on dirt bikes before opening fire and leaving him with a graze wound on his head.
The suspects fled east on West 118th Street, and the victim was transported to St. Luke’s Hospital in stable condition.
HOMICIDE:
Killer on the Loose
(28th precinct)
Responding to a shots fired call on October 28 at around 8 p.m., police discovered a man shot multiple times in the chest and once in the head. According to police, the victim, 23-year-old Muhammad, Abdul-Aziz, was found on the southwest corner of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and West 112nd Street and pronounced dead at St. Luke’s Hospital shortly after. Another male victim, who was also shot in the chest, hailed a taxi a block over to get to Harlem Hospital, where he is listed as critical, but stable, police said. Police released a video of a black male suspect seen wearing a baseball cap, dark jacket, and blue jeans, and carrying an umbrella:
POSSESSION:
Pocket Pistol Bust
(17th precinct)
On October 31 at approximately 12:53 a.m., two officers approached a 51-year-old man, Mark Nickay of Casselberry, Florida, who had an open bottle of Corona beer and was with a 32-year-old male, Leonard Ndue of Chester, New York. According to police, when they approached the two, Nickay tossed a bag underneath a car and began walking away from the intersection of 38th Street and Second Avenue.
After stopping Nickay, police said, they prevented him from pulling a .22 caliber pistol out of his pocket. Later, police also retrieved the tossed bag and discovered 21 small bags of cocaine, 10 bags of crack cocaine, and dozens of pharmaceutical pills.
Nickay was charged with criminal possession of a loaded firearm, criminal possession of a controlled substance, and having an open alcoholic beverage. Ndue was charged with resisting arrest and obstruction of governmental administration.
Local Police Contacts:
Midtown North Precinct
306 West 54 Street
212-767-8400
Midtown South Precinct
357 West 35th Street
212-239-9811
17th Precinct
167 East 51st Street
212-826-3211
19th Precinct
153 East 67th Street
212-452-0600
20th Precinct
120 West 82nd Street
212-580-6411
23rd Precinct
162 East 102nd Street
212-860-6411
24th Precinct
151 West 100th Street
212-678-1811
26th Precinct
520 West 126th Street
212-678-1311
28th Precinct
2271 Frederick Douglass Blvd. at W. 123rd St.
212-678-1611
Central Park Precinct
86th St. and Transverse Road
212-570-4820
