News: Off-Duty Officer Caught on Tape

(Long Island, N.Y.) Several incidents of gun use have made headlines in recent weeks after being captured on video surveillance, but none of them involved a police officer. Last Tuesday, video surveillance at a Farmingdale pub captured an off-duty Nassau County Police Officer pulling out his gun and pointing it at the pub’s bartender. No criminal charges have been filed against the officer.

Information was released today about the incident and the officer-in-question has since been suspended without pay. He awaits disciplinary action and reports stated that a thorough investigation will be conducted by the Nassau County District Attorney. His suspension will last during the course of the internal investigation.

The Nassau County Police Department has reportedly launched an administrative investigation that involves interviewing witnesses and reviewing the surveillance video. The incident occurred on April 26th at South Main Street Pub in Farmingdale. Though no charges have been filed, reports stated that the Nassau County Police Department confirmed misconduct and the inappropriate use of a gun.

The video, which has been made available to the public, shows the officer at the pub with a friend after hours. The bartender claims that the officer was already drunk upon arrival and grew belligerent before pulling out a gun and pointing it directly at him. During this time, the bartender was pouring a drink with his back turned toward the officers.

The surveillance video also shows the officer pulling out his gun a second time to remove the ammunition before setting it on the bar. It’s uncertain whether the officer had been drinking at the bar, but the bartender has yet to file charges against the officer. More information is expected to be released during the process of the administrative investigation.

Perhaps a bigger issue in the case is concerning how the officer got to the pub and whether he was driving. The surveillance video shows the officer pulling up to the pub and hitting the curb before entering the pub with his friend. No reports have mentioned anything about the friend’s intoxication level and whether he’d have been better behind the wheel.

Though the officer could not be reached for an interview, his neighbors were contacted to speak about the incident. They claim that the officer is a good man who made the common mistake of drinking too much on a particular evening. One neighbor claimed that he never gave anyone any problems and could always be seen with a smile on his face.

Some followers of the case aren’t as understanding and have a less lenient take on what should have been done to the officer. They claim that if a civilian had committed the same offense, the consequences would most likely ensure automatic jail time. One report stated that the officer will be going to a rehabilitation facility. A friend of the officer’s claimed that he knows he made a mistake and regrets it.

News: Recent Incidents on Long Island

(Long Island, N.Y.) Three women have been arrested Tuesday evening by Nassau County Police Officers for assaulting an eleven-year-old girl and her thirty-nine-year-old mother. The women’s ages vary from seventeen to twenty-four, and it’s unsure what the motive was for their violent offense. The relations between the victims and the women is not yet known, but is expected to be learned as the case is investigated.

Members of the Nassau County Police Department’s Third Squad arrested the three women for assault after they entered the victims’ home. The home was located in New Cassel, but some of the women came from Bay Shore and Valley Stream. After entering the home they allegedly beat the thirty-nine-year-old woman and her preteen daughter.

The young girl suffered from a laceration to her left cheek and was bruised along her forehead and nose. The mother experienced pain in her right shoulder and right arm as a result of the battery. Both mother and daughter were taken to Nassau University Medical Center to be treated.

The incident occurred around six-thirty Tuesday evening after the three women allegedly yelled for the girl to come out of the house and fight them. After chanting, the belligerent trio pushed open the front door of the New Cassel home and accosted the woman and her daughter. It’s unsure whether they attempted to vandalize the property.

All three of the women were arrested after trying to flee the area. They were charged with assault, burglary, and endangering the welfare of the child. Their arraignment was held at the First District Court in Hempstead.

In other news, the MTA Officer responsible for shooting a forty-year-old police officer in a friendly-fire incident has returned to work. The incident occurred on March 12th in Massapequa Park after officers responded to a call about a deranged man with knives. The man was a twenty-one-year-old resident of the area who had terrorized an elderly woman by jumping on her vehicle with knives.

After the man fled to his nearby home, two sets of officers responded to the call. The first set was MTA Officers, who had been in the area to repair a stuck elevator at a nearby Long Island Rail Road station. They removed the man’s parents from the home and proceeded to apprehend him.

The man was shot seven times after he lunged at the officers with knives and later died. Minutes later, the forty-year-old officer, who was an eight-year member of the Bureau of Special Operations, arrived in plainclothes and an unmarked car. Reports stated that he was carrying a rifle when he approached the area.

The twelve-year-veteran officer was shot and killed in a case of mistaken identity. He is survived by his wife, two young sons, and fellow fireman volunteers at the Selden Fire Department. Reports stated that the MTA Officer returned to work on April 11th without a gun after being placed on sick leave, and has been put on restricted and light duty.

News: Recent Shootings On Long Island

(Long Island, N.Y.) A sixty-two-year-old woman from Hempstead was found dead Sunday morning at roughly eight-thirty. The woman was found in the driver’s seat of her car in a parking lot in Lynbrook. The vehicle was a 1991 Toyota Corolla, which was parked in front of a medical complex on Merrick Road.

The parking lot also contained a chain of stores and was partially covered by an upper level. The woman’s vehicle was parked underneath a medical office. She was discovered by a Lynbrook Village Police Officer during his patrol of the area.

After the officer discovered the woman it was determined that she suffered from a gunshot wound to the head. She was pronounced dead at the scene minutes later, and had apparently succumbed to fatal head trauma. Reports stated that the officer originally believed the woman was intoxicated or ill when he saw her in the vehicle.

Reports also stated that the woman was discovered without identification, and no names have been released to the press. A connection has not been publicized between the woman and the registered owner of the vehicle. Authorities on the case could be withholding information until family members of the deceased are notified. The investigation is considered ongoing, making it likely for authorities to limit the release of details.

Those handling the case are urging anyone with information to contact Nassau County’s Crime Stoppers, and assure that all tips will remain anonymous. The police officer who discovered the woman contacted members of the Nassau County Police Department. Reports stated that the car and body were quickly removed from the parking lot for further examination.

In another story, a man was found wounded near Wyandanch Park at roughly a quarter-to-six Sunday evening. He was discovered after police officers responded to calls of multiple gunshots heard in the area. While no victim was found, a twenty-one-year-old man was treated for a gunshot wound to the hand after being taken to Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip.

Roughly four hours later a twenty-one-year-old man was shot inside his vehicle at Harrison Avenue in North Amityville at a quarter-after-nine on Sunday. He was found inside a Chrysler Sebring and suffered from a gunshot wound to the lower back. At least four shots had been fired.

Detectives from the First Squad are handling the case and reports stated that the man was discovered near his home. The victim’s father drove him to the hospital after he managed to make it to his house. They allegedly waited for an ambulance during the drive after being advised to do so by an emergency response operator.

The twenty-one-year-old was also taken to Good Samaritan Hospital and has been listed in stable condition. Police are asking people with information to contact Suffolk County’s Crime Stoppers. It is unsure whether the cases are related.

News: Long Island Handles Homelessness

(Long Island, N.Y.) Both long and short-term effects of the national recession have led to bigger problems for those aiming to combat homelessness on Long Island. Rising foreclosure rates correspond with an increase in the amount of Long Islanders relying on housing assistance. Between federal aid and local initiatives, Long Island helpers are making efforts to shelter the needy in their communities.

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development was equipped with a $216 million budget to spend on roughly seven-hundred nationwide programs for the homeless. About fifteen million dollars was given to projects in New York State. Long Island organizations received an estimated $1.2 million in federal housing aid.

Over three-quarters-of-a-million dollars was spent on Catholic Charities, which is an organization based in Freeport that houses veterans and their families. A Huntington organization called the Family Service League received over a quarter-of-a-million dollars to expand their assistance to singles. The Long Island Coalition for the Homeless, an organization based in Garden City, received almost $80K in federal aid to create an online database.

The database is designed to provide nonprofits with information they can use to keep track of their homeless clients and help target their specific needs. Some of the information included will determine the number of users served and where they came from. All of the information will function to help develop better programs and to apply for more grants.

Under the Obama Administration, $1.4 billion was spent in January for emergency housing and like programs, and reports stated that the administration is asking for a twenty-five percent increase in the budget for next year. The budget increase was given during a time of crisis when the nation was showing no signs of an economic recovery and decrease in foreclosures. The nationwide programs will cater to housing, job training, and reaching out to those on the street.

While critics of the proposed budget increase claim that too much government money is being spent in providing assistance, consider this:

Long Island statistics from November of 2009 showed a thirty percent increase in homelessness and a forty percent increase in the amount of Suffolk County residents dependent on food stamps. During this time, all eighteen of Suffolk County’s homeless shelters were filled to capacity. Local motels sheltered the excess of clients, some of whom wrote of their desperation in letters to President Obama.

Statistics from 2004 show that Suffolk County’s Department of Social Services estimated there were 435 homeless families and 222 homeless singles living in the county. The statistics from the previous year show 524 families and 144 singles. These statistics only reflect the homeless who applied for assistance and met the official criteria for aid.

Helpers believe that many more homeless live on Long Island but simply don’t come to take the handouts. Workers at a nonprofit organization based in Riverhead estimate that sometimes thirty people a day visit the soup kitchen at a nearby assistance location. Some helpers estimate that in previous years, at least one new homeless person benefited from their programs each day.

It’s typical of the homeless to move from place to place within county campgrounds, being that there is a seven-night limitation to their stay. This and many other issues have prompted twenty-one new shelters to be opened within less than a two year period around Long Island.

It’s true that substance abusers and the mentally ill comprise the largest sector of Long Island’s homeless, but many helpers question whether drug use and the progression of illnesses came before or after the loss of shelter. Currently, the homeless are eligible to receive enough money for food and sustenance, but not enough for the cheapest forms of long-term housing on Long Island. Consider the difficulties of maintaining a job with the added stresses of being on the streets.

Veterans, persons with HIV/AIDS, and victims of domestic abuse also comprise Long Island’s homeless. It’s clear that the differences among these groups of people should mean that they are targeted differently and afforded different measures of assistance. Perhaps more efforts and resources should be focused on homeless minorities, evaluating the priority given to individuals, and finding jobs and permanent housing for only those with the ability to maintain them.

News: New York City Goes Green

(Long Island, N.Y.) This week Mayor Bloomberg announced green-initiative updates to the project known as PlaNYC that began in 2007 to coincide with that year’s Earth Day. Not only did the mayor announce the goals and successes of the environmental-friendly program, but new initiatives were added to the lengthy list of the project’s ambitious goals. Among the updates, the mayor has proposed putting enough solar power plants on capped landfills to power thousands of New York City homes.

The landfills, most of which are found in Staten Island and Brooklyn, can be used to help generate fifty megawatts of energy. As part of the new proposal, the mayor has launched a nonprofit organization called New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation. A forty million dollar federal stimulus was used to finance the organization.

New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation will help New York City property owners combat the high startup costs involved with green-initiative projects. It will function as a type of loan program and help provide low-cost financing to pay for efficiency upgrades. When banks are reluctant to lend money for energy saving projects, the organization will provide the finances for property owners to conserve energy and reduce utility bills with more efficient lighting, heating, and insulation. The organization will also provide technology advice and energy-saving information, in addition to informing property owners about financing options.

One of the original goals of PlaNYC was to reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by thirty percent by 2030. That goal is being renewed as part of the mayor’s updates, which are required by law to happen every four years. Greenhouse gas emissions have already dropped fifteen percent since 2005.

The mayor’s updates were given at a performing arts venue in upper Manhattan called the Harlem Stage, at a gatehouse that guards a tunnel that delivers water from a reservoir system. The gatehouse is an estimated one hundred and twenty years old. One of the ultimate goals of the project is to reduce the city’s dependence on emergency generators that burn petroleum-based fuel during the hot summer season when the electricity demand is at its highest.

Another goal, which speaks to the recent outdoor smoking ban, is to purify the city’s air supply. An estimated one percent of all buildings in New York City account for eighty-six percent of the city’s soot, which is more than what all of the vehicles in the city produce together. The buildings account for such a large percentage of the city’s soot because they burn the dirtiest grades of fuel. To combat this issue, the mayor’s plan will attempt to phase out lower-quality fuels and have companies switch to natural gas or low-sulfur oil.

Some other dimensions of the updated plan include adding hundreds of miles of new bike lanes, incorporating public plazas in every neighborhood, and planting a million trees by 2017. An estimated 97 of the original plan’s 127 initiatives were launched within the first year of their proposal. About 132 new initiatives have been added to the program’s goals.

The plan also intends on building community gardens in city schools and public housing areas, as well as building more green roofs on top of buildings and creating new farmer’s markets. Currently, the project deals with tree plantings, rainwater recapture, reflective paint, and over a hundred other programs.

News: NYC Officials Respond to Deadly Bronx Fire

(Long Island, N.Y.) After a severe fire devastated a building in the East Tremont/Belmont section of the Bronx, authorities discovered that some of the tenants were living in illegal apartments. Three people were killed in the fire, including a twelve-year-old boy. The problem with illegal apartments has prompted New York City officials into action.

The fire occurred Monday on Prospect Avenue and one of the victims is believed to have been a thirty-six-year-old man. Reports have stated that all three of the victims are believed to have been related and were living in an apartment that didn’t contain smoke alarms. Mayor Bloomberg announced that he will work with New York City officials in coming up with new strategies to combat the longtime issue of illegal apartments.

Though the mayor claimed that the city has taken steps to limit the amount of illegal apartments, it has also fallen short of accomplishing its goals. Part of the issue is that property owners are willing to place profits over the lives of their tenants, allowing them to be subjected to dangerous living conditions. Reports stated that at least five complaints were made about the Belmont building concerning illegal apartments that contained faulty wiring and blocked exits.

According to some sources, the building had been visited ten times by inspectors who were unable to enter the building. After arriving on the scene, more than a hundred firefighters helped extinguish the flames. Firefighters also helped to vacate a floor of the building, but could not determine whether tenants returned to their homes.

The New York City Council has planned to hold a hearing in June to discuss the city’s response to illegal apartments. Reports claimed that some city council members have accused the mayor of opposing legislation that would allow inspectors to have more power in prosecuting corrupt property owners. It’s believed that the mayor doesn’t think the legislation will stand in court.

Other proposed legislation included the ability to cite property owners for illegal apartments based on circumstantial indicators like having a disproportionate amount of mailboxes or doorbells in a building. The goal is to get easier access to warrants from inspectors, and one proposed legislation suggests obtaining warrants based on inspectors’ affidavits.

The New York City Buildings Department estimated that it receives twenty thousand complaints of illegal apartments a year but can only investigate half. Nonetheless, officials have claimed that more cases are being prosecuted than ever before.

The Prospect Avenue fire, which tore apart the three-story brownstone, occurred at roughly three-thirty in the morning. Four other people were injured in addition to two firefighters, all of whom suffered from smoke inhalation. Firefighters believed that the fire began on the second floor of the building.

Some reports stated that neighbors of the building may have been displaced temporarily. Staff from the Red Cross offered assistance and was available to the building’s neighbors. Firefighters have claimed that they arrived on the scene and responded quickly, but were unable to enter the building right away because of the extreme conditions of the flames. By the time they were capable of entering the building, it was too late for three of the building’s tenants.

News: Severe Storm Warning for Long Island

(Long Island, N.Y.) The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for areas north and west of New York City, including Nassau County. Though no hazardous advisory has been issued for Suffolk County, tornado warnings are also in affect for certain areas around the city. The poor weather system comes from the major storms that hit the southeast of the country, killing over two hundred people in various states.

On Long Island, periods of heavy rain are expected to strike on and off amidst the duration of the storm. The worst of the storm is supposed to breakdown before reaching Suffolk County. Nonetheless, Long Islanders are preparing for the worst; afraid of experiencing what’s left over from the nightmare that hit the south.

Alabama was hit the hardest and suffered a reported one hundred and sixty casualties in the storm’s aftermath. DeKalb County, which is located in the state’s northeast corner, reported the most damage. At least eighteen were killed in Franklin County, located in the northwestern area and fifteen were reported dead in the city of Tuscaloosa.

Tuscaloosa has a population that exceeds 83,000 people and is home to the University of Alabama. A hundred people were reportedly brought into a single hospital during the storm. In some areas of the state the storm appeared between a half-mile and mile in girth.

An estimated one million people were left without power in Alabama and at least one nuclear power plant was safely shut down. The Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a State of Emergency for Alabama, and President Obama is expected to make a visit this Friday. Many compared the recent storms to the “super tornado outbreaks” of 1974.

Georgia was among the states to experience damage from the one hundred and fifty tornadoes that hit the area. Students at the University of Georgia evacuated their dorm rooms at roughly one in the morning, and some were moved to the basement. Sirens blared while trees and power lines hit houses, leaving some homes destroyed to the foundation. No damage or injuries were reported at the university.

Hundreds of homes were flattened and hundreds were injured in this vicious round of storms. Multiple lightning strikes were reported, some of which set homes on fire. Areas from Arkansas to North Carolina were affected by severe thunderstorms.

Thirty people were reported dead in Tennessee, and Chattanooga was among the areas most affected. Parts of southeastern Tennessee depicted a war zone and eight deaths were reported in the state of Virginia. Thirty-two people were killed in Mississippi and over a hundred were reported injured by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. Over two hundred homes and twenty businesses were damaged, and fifty of the state’s eighty-two counties reported harsh effects of the storm.

Many claim that there isn’t a lot people can do when storms hit that are this large in size. City police across the areas of the southeast were overwhelmed by weather damage and causalities. About two thousand troops from the National Guard were employed to search areas devastated by the storm and aid the local responders in cleaning up the area.

News: Long Island Gets a SONIC

(Long Island, N.Y.) The day after Easter Sunday unveiled the first SONIC fast food chain available to Long Islanders in their own backyard. Long Islanders have long been exposed to the various commercial advertisements for the 50’s style food chain, but the joke has always been “where is there a SONIC?” Deer Park Avenue in North Babylon is the first site of many SONIC restaurants expected to be brought to the area.

North Babylon’s SONIC opened at nine in the morning this past Monday and was completely bombarded by curious and hungry Long Islanders within the first three minutes of its debut. All twenty-two drive-in stalls were filled, as were sixteen patio tables. The two outdoor patio ordering stations were occupied and a lengthy line began to form around the drive-thru.

SONIC has over 3500 restaurants throughout the country, but prior to the North Babylon addition, the closest restaurants to Long Islanders were in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. SONIC has been around for about sixty years, and opened as a hamburger/root beer stand in 1953.

Those who attended SONIC’s opening in North Babylon would agree that line was beyond intimidating, and during the wait, many updated their Facebook statuses with complaints about the nearby traffic. The stylized restaurant chain takes Long Islanders back decades, showcasing employees who ride on roller skates with food orders. Customers can get out of their vehicles and enjoy their food in a heated patio area, which is guaranteed to be comfortable in above freezing temperatures.

At least ten other restaurants are expected to appear at unannounced locations in Nassau and Suffolk County. North Babylon’s SONIC immediately attracted an estimated one hundred and fifty people who waited in line for hours. Deer Park Avenue was backed up for miles and cars parked blocks away from the opening.

Some of SONIC’s attractions include an “all day long menu” and a Happy Hour starting at two in the afternoon. They are open until midnight and two in the morning on weekends. They are known for serving a variety of specialized beverages, foot-long hotdogs, and burritos.

Reports stated that the North Babylon SONIC hired over a hundred employees prior to its opening after conducting over four hundred interviews. Applications were filled out online and in person. Hired employees practiced skating in and out of cones as part of the training process that began the third week of April.

Construction for the North Babylon SONIC allegedly began during the first week in April adjacent to the La Grande Place shopping center and Garnet Street. The creator of SONIC opened the restaurant in Shawnee, Oklahoma and named it “Top Hat Drive-In.” Six years later the name was changed to SONIC, and the first restaurant to adopt the name change in 1959 was in Stillwater, Oklahoma. That restaurant is still serving customers. One Huntington customer waited since three-thirty Sunday afternoon to be the first in line at the North Babylon SONIC.

News: Memorial for New York City Photojournalist

(Long Island, N.Y.) A memorial was held today at the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn for the forty-one-year-old photojournalist Chris Hondros who was killed in Libya. Hondros lost his life while covering the Libyan uprising in Misrata. His memorial was also streamed live for viewers logging onto the Internet.

Hondros was killed on April 20th when a rocket-propelled grenade hit the house that he was staying in. Photos he captured of the war scene just days before his death have been published on various websites. Hundreds of people gathered for today’s service, which was held on Summit Street in Brooklyn.

Hondros was born in New York City but lived in North Carolina as a child. He received a degree in English Literature from North Carolina State and worked for the campus newspaper. He also went on to receive a Master’s degree from Ohio’s School of Visual Communications. He came to New York City to pursue a career in international reporting. He was known for working in the some of the world’s most dangerous combat zones and cities during the most turbulent times known to the public in the last twenty years.

Hondros was a Pulitzer Prize nominee and was distinguished for work he had done in Liberia in 2004. He was killed along with a British photographer and documentary filmmaker. The pair was the first known Western journalists to be killed in Libya.

In addition to Libya and Liberia, Hondros captured a limitless collection of images from Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Kashmir, the West Bank, and Iraq over the last two decades. He stayed in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt during the protests that occurred earlier this year. In addition to photojournalism, Hondros spent time as a lecturer and essayist on the subject of war for an array of media outlets.

Hondros’s photos have made the covers of Newsweek, The Economist, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. In 2006 he received the highest honor for war photography and was distinguished for his work in Iraq. He was named “the hero of photography” the following year by a magazine.

Family members of Hondros helped established a fund in his honor known as “The Chris Hondros Fund.” The foundation provides scholarships for aspiring photojournalists and works to increase awareness in issues speaking to the conflict in photography. They have requested donations to the fund in the place of flowers.

Hondros also covered domestic issues and was known for shooting images of Ground Zero after the September 11th attacks and images of the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in the American gulf. Last year, he took photos of the earthquake in Haiti and also provided images for documentary films.

Two others were wounded in the fatal attack on April 20th and reports have stated that Hondros suffered from severe brain trauma. Other reports stated that the group of foreign journalists had been traveling with rebel fighters. Among his many achievements, Hondros was known for his coverage of a 2005 shooting in Iraq that took the life of a child and two adults.

News: Brooklyn Murder Caught On Film

(Long Island, N.Y.) Another grisly, execution-style murder was caught by video surveillance footage in Brooklyn, making it the second fatal crime captured in the borough in less than a week. The victim was a twenty-four-year-old man who was not from the area. Once again, it was disturbing to see what little was done for the man by city bystanders during the final moments of his life.

The shooting occurred last Saturday at roughly eight o’clock that night on Nostrand Avenue in East Flatbush. The area and street in particular has been known as a scene of violence and killings. One resident estimated that he witnessed fifteen murders occur on the block within the last twenty-two years after moving to the area.

The victim was from Red Hill, South Carolina and had been staying with his aunt and visiting relatives in Brooklyn. He was outside his uncle’s Crown Fried Chicken restaurant at the time of the incident. The restaurant advertises as a coffee, breakfast, and pizza shop.

Family members of the victim claim that he didn’t know anyone in the area and couldn’t have had problems with anybody. They believe the twenty-four-year-old was slain in a case of mistaken identity. He was the father of a one-year-old daughter and awaiting the birth of his second child.

The surveillance video captures the victim on his cell phone just outside the store. He is dressed in a white hat, sneakers, and sweatshirt. A passerby walks on the sidewalk between him and the killer just before the shooting.

The shooter dressed in black, fires two bullets at a point blank distance into the victim’s chest. He flees the scene and his face was not captured by cameras. The victim falls to the ground and rolls over to his side as his hat falls off. He struggles to come to his feet before collapsing.

People inside the store immediately come outside and witness the victim’s struggle. In the final moments of his life no one seems to help or comfort him by kneeling down. Within moments, he is surrounded by a group of bystanders, one of whom allegedly snaps a cell phone photo of the fatality.

The video released spanned just two minutes and twelve seconds. Reports stated that the forty-year-old mother of the victim, who is also a nurse, claimed to have been disgusted about the lack of help her son received during his final moments. She wanted to know what kind of city could stand back and watch a man struggle for life instead of turning him on his side to assist him in breathing.

The twenty-four-year-old victim was eventually brought to Kings County Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Some reports have stated that a second video surveillance tape, which documented inside the restaurant, showed the killer handling an object at his waist prior to the shooting. The object, which could have been the murder weapon, was later transported to his jacket pocket.

Other reports have stated that video footage has captured the shooter pacing around the sidewalk before pulling the trigger. Again, this is one of many gruesome acts of cold-blooded murder that have been captured in recent weeks. Less than a week ago a man was killed in a Brooklyn apartment building after stepping out of an elevator and being shot from behind.