Riis Houses shooting
On Mon., March 9, shortly before 9 p.m., a man, 23, was shot in front of 178 Avenue D, near E. 13th St., in the Jacob Riis Houses, by another man in a group of unknown males.
The victim, who was reported not likely to die and in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital, is a resident of 691 F.D.R. Drive, near East Houston St., in the Lillian Wald Houses, according to the Ninth Precinct.
According to a source, at this point, the victim is not fully cooperating with police.
Bust in Wald shooting
Police have arrested Shaquille Fuller, 21, for a shooting outside the Lillian Wald Houses, but not for the fatal shooting of Shemrod Isaacs, 33, on Feb. 23 that he is also a suspect in.
Fuller had been taken into custody in New Jersey on Feb. 26, three days after Isaac, who rapped under the name Sham Da God, was gunned down in front of the Wald Houses’ 20 Avenue D, where Isaac lived. Fuller also lives in the Wald Houses, at 60 Avenue D.
Speaking this Wednesday, a spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney said Fuller had been arrested in the past few days, and was back in Manhattan and was arraigned on his charges on Monday. (He could not be arrested until he was extradited to New York.)
The charges stem from a Dec. 12, 2014, incident in which Fuller allegedly pumped two rounds into a man at the southeast corner of Avenue D and E. Sixth St.
According to the D.A.’s complaint, the victim said Fuller walked up to him at 11:20 p.m. and shot him once in the chest and once in the back of the neck. Police reported recovering two bullet casings at the scene.
Fuller was charged with attempted murder in the second degree, attempted assault in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and assault in the second degree.
Isaac, meanwhile, in last month’s incident, was shot three times, reportedly after an argument with the suspect. According to police, the investigation into Isaacs’s killing remains open.
Fuller’s next court date is April 8.
Cops save river jumper
A woman, reportedly possibly in her 40s, jumped into the East River at South St. and Pike Slip shortly before noon on Tues., March 10. A New York Police Department Harbor Unit boat responded and pulled her from the water, at which point she was unconscious and not breathing, according to police.
Police performed C.P.R. on the woman and she began breathing again. According to a police spokesperson, the C.P.R. was done onboard the boat. One of the daily newspapers reported that she was taken to nearby Pier 11 where the C.P.R. was performed.
“She was dead when they pulled her out,” the spokesperson told The Villager. “They did C.P.R. and brought her back.”
The woman was taken to Bellevue Hospital where she was reported to be in stable condition, the spokesperson said.
Fly, the East Village squatter artist whose PEOPS cartoons are featured in The Villager, happened to be walking by at the time and said she was only a few meters away when she witnessed the woman jump into the river. She thought the woman looked to be in her 20s, though admits she didn’t get a good view of her face. She thought the woman had died.
“She was right under the Manhattan Bridge and she was on the outside of the railing,” Fly told the newspaper on Tuesday evening. “There was another woman there, and I thought they were doing some kind of photo shoot. But as I walked up, I realized something was wrong and the woman was trying to get her to come back over and saying, ‘Don’t do it.’
“The girl was yelling something and she put her hands up and yelled something up to the sky. I was just not close enough to get to her. She jumped too fast.
“I was desperately calling 911 and hoping she would come back to the wall and I could make a rope out of my clothes to pull her up,” Fly recounted. “But instead she rolled over facedown and just lay there, drifting north and out into the river.
“It took about five minutes for EMTs to arrive, but they couldn’t get out to where she was. She had drifted very far out. If only the tide had kept her by the wall! They had a hook! The Fire Department took a bit longer. She was in there about 10 minutes when a police boat arrived to pull her out, DOA. It was awful.
“I’m pretty messed up about this.”
It wasn’t a coincidence that Fly happened to be out strolling then.
“I do a walk around Lower Manhattan and back up through Battery Park every day,” she said. “It’s my meditation time. I used to be a long-distance runner and marathon runner. Since my knees are shot now, I have to walk.”
Referring to the police lingo — “floater” — for a dead body in the river, she said, “I have seen several floaters on the East River and on the Hudson. I have witnessed fatal accidents. But I have never seen someone do a suicide and die right before my eyes. It was so heartbreaking, I had to miss teaching my class at the Lower Eastside Girls Club.”
She was relieved to hear from The Villager that the woman, in fact, had survived.
Female floating in river
On Sun., March 8, at about 2:40 p.m., police responded to the East River at 23rd St. for a 911 call of a body in the water. Upon arrival, officers observed a female floating in the river about 15 to 20 feet from the shoreline. The victim was removed from the water and E.M.S. pronounced the victim DOA at the scene. She was not immediately identified. The Medical Examiner will determine the cause of death.
Pretty Provocative
A 22-year-old fashion model was hit with a wine glass on the right side of her face courtesy of a fellow female bar patron at Provocateur, at 18 W. Ninth St., early last Saturday morning. The two women engaged in a verbal dispute on March 7, and then Kathleen Ward, 23, allegedly threw the glass at Brittani Bader, who suffered a laceration. Ward was arrested and charged with felony assault. The Post reported that Bader signed up with One Management modeling agency in January, according to her Facebook page.
Bad bucks on Bleecker
Two men targeted Village businesses with counterfeit U.S. currency starting at 11 p.m. on Fri., March 6. They first hit 1849 bar and restaurant, at 183 Bleecker St., where they attempted to pay a bartender for drinks with the fake cash. But they fled after they were questioned about the fishy-looking bills.
They had better luck at their next stop, down the block at Carroll Place, at 157 Bleecker St. Not only did the funny money pass muster for two purchases each, they got some real cash, as well, in exchange for the phony bills, police said.
But cops caught up with them at the Red Lion, at 151 Bleecker St., just after midnight. The perpetrators paid the price of admission and coat check at the place with the bogus bills. However, they didn’t have long to enjoy the amenities there. Officers soon arrived and arrested Eddie Ashley and Joseph Fernandez, both age 21.
More worthless greenbacks were reportedly found on the pair, though a police report did not state how much. Ashley and Fernandez were charged with felony criminal possession of forged instruments.
Wrong-name ruse
A woman who was pulled over at the northwest corner of W. 10th St. and Fifth Ave. for a traffic violation reportedly tried to give police a fake name.
Police said they pulled over a brown Ford Explorer after observing it aggressively pass another vehicle in the intersection. The street was particularly wet and slushy just after 6:30 p.m. on Wed., March 4, making the maneuver more dangerous, according to police.
After the driver initially provided a phony name, she continued the ruse even after an officer warned her that doing so was a misdemeanor and might make her subject to arrest. A computer check of the name did not reveal her identification, so the officer again pressed the driver to come clean.
Further investigation determined that Jainer Lowe was her real name. The 33-year-old also allegedly yanked police around as she was placed under arrest. She was charged with false personation and resisting arrest, both misdemeanors, and a traffic violation.
— Lincoln Anderson and Zach Williams
