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Police arrest man in double murder of Latin Kings members; victim’s wife
says he was 'always looking after the younger kids’
Kerry Burke, JOHN ANNESE, Thomas Tracy
3-4 minutes
New York Daily News
Jun 11, 2020 11:08 AM
Octavio Figueroa (left) and Dominic Barrera
Octavio Figueroa (left) and Dominic Barrera (Obtained by the Daily News)
Police have arrested a man accused of fatally stabbing two Latin Kings
members in Manhattan, including one who proudly took younger members
under his wing, his grieving wife said.
Tayvius Lewis, 22, of the Bronx was charged Thursday with murder and
weapons possession for killing Octavio “Mousey” Figueroa and fellow
Almighty Latin Kings member Dominic “King Damo” Barrera.
Both Figueroa, 36, and Barrera, 21, were knifed to death during a drug
dispute in the third-floor hallway of Figueroa’s building in the
Frederick Douglass Houses on Amsterdam Ave. at W. 106th St. on May. 28,
police said.
Cops found the two men sprawled out on the floor, each suffering from
multiple stab wounds. They were taken to Mount Sinai Morningside, but
neither could be saved.
Figueroa, originally from Flatbush, Brooklyn, got his nickname “because
he liked cheese,” according to his wife. He worked in security and was
getting his certification to be a building superintendent, she said.
“We’ve been married a year, but I knew him since he was 11. He was a
wonderful father. Everyone loved and respected him. He has two kids and
a stepdaughter,” wife Melissa Figueroa, 39, said.
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“Both of them were in the nation and so am I," she said, referring to
the Almighty Latin Kings and Queens.
Octavio Figueroa lived in the Frederick Douglass Houses with his mother
and his daughter, authorities said.
Melissa Figueroa still lives in Flatbush, and has come to the building
every day to maintain a shrine in her slain husband and Barrera’s honor.
“They were always together. He (Figueroa) was always looking after the
younger kids,” she said. “People were envious of him because he was
respected.”
Cops released images of two wanted men seen near Figueroa’s apartment
building at the time of the killings. It was not immediately clear how
they linked Lewis to the double murder.
Lewis’ arraignment was pending in Manhattan Criminal Court Tuesday. A
second suspect was still being sought.
Kerry Burke is an award-winning news reporter for the NY Daily News.
Raised in Boston, he has given his adult life to New York, breaking
stories in every corner of the city. He lives in Harlem.
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Shootings, murders rose dramatically in NYC last week amid backdrop of
protests
By Larry Celona
June 8, 2020 | 2:13am | Updated
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Murders and shootings in the Big Apple skyrocketed last week compared to
the same period last year, law enforcement sources said.
From last Monday to Sunday night, there were 13 murders in the city,
compared to five killings during the same week last year, sources said.
The city reported 40 shootings last week — the most in a week since
2015. In the same time period in 2019, there were 24 shootings, sources
said.
The increase in violence came as demonstrators marched city streets to
protest the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The majority of the protests were peaceful, but on some nights they were
overshadowed by looting and the destruction of stores in several boroughs.
At least one shooting in Soho last Monday morning was linked to looters,
police sources have said.
Police respond at a looted store last week in SoHo, Manhattan.Police
respond at a looted store last week in the Soho area of Manhattan.
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NYC burglaries quadruple despite lower crime rates
By Larry Celona and Craig McCarthy
2 minutes
June 8, 2020 | 1:50pm
Gotham’s tally of break-ins quadrupled last week as looters took
advantage of George Floyd protests to ransack portions of Manhattan and
Brooklyn — but crime still remains down for the year, new data shows.
The NYPD recorded 909 burglaries in the first full week of June,
compared to just 181 reports over the same time last year, crime stats
released Monday show.
June 1 saw the highest number of 911 calls reporting break-ins across
the city — with emergency call centers receiving more than 2,300
reports, according to police officials.
That number continued to decrease as the week went on, dropping
dramatically on Tuesday, dipping to 306, after an earlier curfew was put
in effect.
NYPD’s Counter Intelligence Deputy Commissioner John Miller said the
department has an “intelligence gap” in how the looters planned the
coordinated burglaries.
“Looting was not a feature we anticipated, or associated with, this type
of movement,” Miller said.
“We believe it was an optimistic action by regular criminal groups,” he
added.
“Part of their calculus most of police resources would be tied up with
marches. We had to split off a good deal of those resources to chase
down those looters until the morning.”
Murders and shootings continued rise last week — but, overall, major
crime this year remains down 1.5 percent.
Arrests, meanwhile are down more than 40 percent overall — despite a
700-percent increase in burglary arrests, data shows.
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Gunfire erupts in exchange between NYPD, Queens suspect in Far Rockaway
Thomas Tracy, Kerry Burke, JOHN ANNESE
3 minutes
A police vehicle that was fired upon is pictured on Mott Avenue in Far
Rockaway, Queens Wednesday night. A broken rear passenger-side window
and bullet hole in the door (inset) can be seen.
A police vehicle that was fired upon is pictured on Mott Avenue in Far
Rockaway, Queens Wednesday night. A broken rear passenger-side window
and bullet hole in the door (inset) can be seen. (Sam Costanza/for New
York Daily News)
A chaotic confrontation between police and a Queens suspect erupted in
an explosion of gunfire Wednesday, police sources said.
The gunfire rang out at 5:40 p.m. near Beach Channel Drive and Dix Ave.
in Far Rockaway.
Police were responding to a call of shots fired, when they came a man
shooting at two others, sources said.
“He was shooting at these two guys when the police rolled up. He shot at
them and hit their car," said a witness, who didn’t give her name. "I
got out of there because I didn’t want to get shot in the head.”
An NYPD armored vehicle with a manned machine gun is pictured at the
scene where shots were fired at police on Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway,
Queens Wednesday night.
An NYPD armored vehicle with a manned machine gun is pictured at the
scene where shots were fired at police on Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway,
Queens Wednesday night. (Sam Costanza/for New York Daily News)
No officers were hit in the rain of bullets, though one reported ringing
in his ears and another suffered a cut, sources said. One bullet hit a
police SUV window, sources said.
The suspect escaped, the sources said.
The confrontation came less than two weeks after a shooting May 31, when
a 21-year-old gunman opened fire at two officers sitting in a marked
patrol car in front of a home on Beach 66th St. in Arverne, about two
miles away from Wednesday’s shootout.
The alleged shooter, Kane Motta, was arrested on attempted murder
charges in what Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz called “a targeted
attack on our law enforcement as they watched over a neighborhood on a
quiet night in Queens.”
Born and bred in Brooklyn, crime reporter Thomas Tracy has been covering
the NYPD for more than a decade. He joined the Daily News in January 2013.
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'Your future was bright’: Man, 20, dies after being beaten into coma
during Queens street robbery
Graham Rayman
5-6 minutes
John Martinez was punched in the head and thrown to the ground on 115th
St. near 95th Ave. in Richmond Hill, Queens about 11:30 a.m. May 25. His
four assailants, allegedly pictured here, snatched his wallet and
cellphone and ran off.
John Martinez was punched in the head and thrown to the ground on 115th
St. near 95th Ave. in Richmond Hill, Queens about 11:30 a.m. May 25. His
four assailants, allegedly pictured here, snatched his wallet and
cellphone and ran off. (NYPD)
A 20-year-old man has died after being beaten into a coma by a crew of
four crooks, two of them teenagers, on a Queens street, police said
Wednesday.
John Martinez was punched in the head and thrown to the ground on 115th
St. near 95th Ave. in Richmond Hill about 11:35 a.m. May 25. His four
assailants snatched his wallet and cellphone and ran off.
Cops found Martinez lying in a pool of blood about 10 minutes later.
Medics took him to Jamaica Hospital with bleeding and swelling on the
brain and a broken vertebra, according to court papers. Doctors
performed surgery to relieve pressure on his brain, but they could not
bring back Martinez’s brain function.
After clinging to life in a coma for a little over a week, Martinez, who
lived in East New York, Brooklyn, died June 4, cops said.
Friends shocked by his death flooded social media with memories of Martinez.
“Your future was bright despite everything the world is going thru,”
cousin H Noel Martinez wrote. “You ain’t even scratch the surface wit ya
potential.”
“He was a good friend and person who deserve better," heartbroken pal
Shaq Simms wrote.
Martinez’s mom was too distraught to speak to a reporter Wednesday.
Cops released surveillance video of the suspects after the attack in
broad daylight and asked the public’s help tracking them down. The video
showed alleged assailant Nicholas Thakurdin and Martinez passing each
other on the sidewalk.
John Martinez
John Martinez (Obtained by the Daily News)
Thakurdin, 19, swung around and punched Martinez in the back of the
head, then picked up the victim and slammed him headfirst onto the
sidewalk, prosecutors allege.
Thakurdin’s three accomplices looked on, prosecutors say. Two of them
wore ski masks.
“We walked toward 115 and that’s when it happened: Nick ran up to the
guy and hit the guy," accomplice Akeem Gani, 20, told cops, according to
court papers. “Next thing I see Nick run his pockets and take his s---."
Thakurdin rifled through Martinez’s pockets, snatching the victim’s
cellphone and wallet, which contained just $4 in cash and a debit card,
authorities say. All four attackers ran off, fleeing south on 115th St.
towards 101st Ave.
They went to a nearby bodega, leaving the victim’s cellphone’s case on a
freezer there, and then got on an MTA bus, court papers say.
“I saw the guy had $4 in his wallet," Gani told cops, according to a
criminal complaint against him. “Nick took it, (and) his debit card. It
was a Chase card ... Nick threw the wallet in the garbage. We went to
chill after. We went to a park to hang out a little bit. Then I went to
see my friend.”
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Thakurdin never was able to use the debit card. “I did not use the debit
card because I did not know the PIN,” he told cops, court papers say.
John Martinez
John Martinez (Obtained by Daily News)
Prosecutors say Thakurdin told detectives that on May 23, two days
before the fatal attack, he was playing a video game with a friend named
Freddy Torres when Torres asked him to beat up Martinez.
Thakurdin then rounded up the other three assailants, who agreed to help
him. Torres set up a meeting with Martinez and directed the group to
where he was, court papers say.
John Martinez
John Martinez (Obtained by Daily News)
On May 27 and 28, detectives arrested Thakurdin, Gani, a 16-year-old boy
and a 17-year-old boy. All four were charged with attempted murder,
robbery and assault. The names of the two teen suspects were not
released because of their age.
Martinez’s death has been deemed a homicide and all four suspects could
now face upgraded charges.
Thakurdin is being held at Manhattan Detention Complex on $500,000 bail.
Gani’s bail was initially set at $300,000, but he was released without
bail after a follow up court appearance, records show.
Graham Rayman covers criminal justice and policing for the New York
Daily News. He has won multiple journalism prizes over his 30-year
career. He has previously worked at New York Newsday, Newsday, and the
Village Voice. He authored a book on a police officer who became a
whistleblower in Brooklyn called "The NYPD Tapes."
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