CNS News: There were 7 murders, 33 rapes and 497 felony assaults in New York City last week (April 3 to April 9), according to data published by the New York Police Department.
One of the victims was 83-year-old Ramon Citron, who was stabbed to death on Saturday, April 8, in the elevator of his Brooklyn apartment building.
The New York Daily News carried a story about the murder that was headlined: “‘Maniac’ kills ‘survivor,’ 83—Victim, just home from the hospital, is stabbed to death in his B’klyn elevator.”
“An octogenarian stabbed to death in his Brooklyn apartment building’s elevator was the survivor of a string of heart attacks—and was returning from an overnight hospital stay related to his pacemaker—when he was cornered by his unhinged young neighbor,” said the story.
“He would have lived a few more years. He has survived five heart attacks and at least two robberies, ulcers, and part of his stomach was gone,” his nephew, Angel Cintron Jr., told the paper. “He survived it all.”
The next day, April 9, a man was shot to death in a Manhattan smoke shop.
“The victim and the shooter did not work at the store, called just Smoke Shop, cops said,” the Daily News reported.
“Two shell casings were recovered from the scene at Lenox Ave., and W. 125th St., they added. The cause of the shooting was not immediately known,” the paper said.
Another fatal shooting took place in the wee hours of the morning on Saturday, April 8.
“A man was killed in a Queens shooting early Saturday, according to police,” the New York Post reported.
“The victim was shot multiple times in the torso at around 2:05 a.m., outside the Pure Lounge in Jamaica, cops said. ‘This guy was walking along and then shot by two males,’ an NYPD spokesman said. ‘We don’t know why.’”
On Monday, April 3, New York police officer discovered a long-dead woman in a Staten Island house.
“The decomposing corpse of a 43-year-old woman missing since December was found in the basement of a Staten Island home by officers acting on a tip, cops said Thursday,” the Daily News reported. “The city medical examiner determined the woman died of two gunshot wounds to her chest, said police. Police armed with a search warrant made the gruesome discovery about 1 p.m. Monday in the basement of a three-story house on York Ave. in New Brighton, said NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig.”
On the night of Thursday, April 6, an 18-year-old man was stabbed to death on a New York subway.
“An 18-year-old straphanger was knifed to death during a clash on a Brooklyn subway train roaring toward the Barclays Center, police said Friday,” the Daily News reported. “Isiah Collazo and his killer were riding a Manhattan-bound D train through downtown Brooklyn when they got into an argument Thursday night around 11:30 p.m., according to cops. The two started brawling and Collazo was stabbed in the stomach, police were told.”
On Easter Sunday, a 23-year-old man was stabbed to death on Coney Island.
“A man who was stabbed Easter Sunday on Coney Island made a doomed bid to reach police for help before collapsing and dying, a witness told the Daily News,” the Daily News reported. “The 23-year-old victim got into a dispute with two men in their 20s or 30s before the attack, cops said. Responding officers found him at W. 23rd St. and Mermaid Ave. in Brooklyn at 2:12 p.m. Photos of the scene showed blood on the driver’s side door handle of a Chrysler Town & Country minivan parked in the middle of Mermaid Ave., though details of the fight were not immediately clear.”
Prophetic Link:
“There is coming rapidly and surely an almost universal guilt upon the inhabitants of the cities because of the steady increase of determined wickedness. We are living in the midst of an “epidemic of crime” at which thoughtful, God-fearing men everywhere stand aghast. The corruption that prevails is beyond the power of the human pen to describe. Every day brings fresh revelations of political strife, bribery, and fraud; every day brings its heartsickening record of violence and lawlessness, of indifference to human suffering; of brutal, fiendish destruction of human life. Every day testifies to the increase of insanity, murder, and suicide.” Testimonies to the Church, Vol. 9, page 89.2.