HOMICIDE:
BROTHERLY HATE
(24TH PRECINCT)
Police have arrested 56-year-old Francisco Perez for stabbing his 63-year-old brother to death inside their Upper West Side apartment. Police said that on October 6 at around 9:30 p.m., they found the victim, Luis Gonzalez, lying on the floor inside 58 West 105th Street unconscious, unresponsive, and with knife wounds to his torso. EMS responded and declared Gonzalez deceased at the scene, and police took Perez into custody after recovering a knife there. Perez was charged with murder, according to police.
COLLISION:
RIGHT TURN WRECK
(19TH PRECINCT)
A Yorktown, New York man was arrested and charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care after striking an Upper East Sider who later died, police said. According to police, 73-year-old Blanca Pagan was walking northbound on York Avenue and crossing East 89th Street on October 7 at around 3 p.m. when she was struck. Police said 48-year-old Pjerin Gjerji was driving a white 2013 Chevy van and hit Pagan during a right turn off the southbound York Avenue and onto East 89th Street. Gjerji was taken into custody at the scene, while Pagan was transported to New York Hospital where she later died.
GRAND LARCENY:
CHAIN SNATCHER
(FIFTH, MIDTOWN SOUTH AND MIDTOWN NORTH PRECINCTS)
A man has been going around on subways snatching chains off of female victims as the trains come to a stop, police said. According to the NYPD, the suspect has been reported in six incidents from August to October aboard the N, Q, F, and 6 trains. In the latest incident, on October 8 at 6 p.m., the suspect yanked a necklace off a 54-year-old female on the southbound F train at the 47-50th Streets—Rockefeller Center stop.
Police released video and video stills of the suspect, whom they describe as black male, 30 to 35-years-old, 6’2″, 170 pounds, and last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt and blue jeans.
ASSAULT:
TOSSING KIDS BETWEEN CARS IS PROHIBITED
(MIDTOWN SOUTH PRECINCT)
Police are looking for a male suspect who dragged an 11-year-old boy through a train car and attempted to throw him off the train. On October 5 at around 3:15 p.m., police said, the suspect pulled the 11-year-old boy into the area between train cars when aboard a moving southbound 4 train. Police said the suspect “picked him up and shook him as he was going to throw him off the train.” According to police, the boy hit his head on the side of the train before a 26-year-old female passenger intervened and pulled the boy back into the train car. The Good Samaritan and the victim got off the 4 train at the 14th Street Union Square stop, while the suspect remained on the train, according to police.
Police released photos of the suspect, whom they describe as a black male in his 30s, 6’, and last seen wearing a black sweater and a multi-colored baseball cap.
SEXUAL ASSAULT:
ATTEMPTED RAPE IN CENTRAL PARK
(CENTRAL PARK PRECINCT)
On October 13, police arrested Bronx resident Forest Richardson, a 26-year-old male, for attempted rape, robbery, and assault after an incident on October 10 at around 9:30 p.m. According to police, a 28-year-old female victim was walking inside Central Park at around East 107th Street and East Drive when Richardson approached her from behind and threw her to the ground. Police said that Richardson attempted to sexually assault the victim and then took her cellphone from her pocket. According to police, he ran away after the attempted rape, but was arrested three days later. The victim was taken to a nearby hospital.
MENACING:
CRAZED CLOWN
(19TH PRECINCT)
A 53-year-old man donning a clown costume and carrying a knife was recently arrested for menacing, police said. According to police, Manhattanville resident Thomas Smith, 53, was reported threatening a 16-year-old boy on October 5 at around 2 p.m. on the northbound 6 train at the East 96th Street stop. Police said Smith blocked the path of the victim who was trying to get off the train. After forcing his way past the suspect, the victim continued on his way toward the station exit but turned around and saw that the suspect was carrying a knife, police said. The boy ran out of the station and onto the street, while police were unsure where the clown-costumed man went. Eight days later, Smith was arrested.
LOCAL POLICE CONTACTS
Midtown North Precinct
306 West 54th 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
Central Park Precinct
86th Street and Transverse Road
212-570-4820
