A man minding his own business on the morning after Thanksgiving was brutally stabbed multiple times in the chest and shoulder in what is being described by Cops as a random attack.
The victim, 70yr old Otto Ponce-Farfan, was walking on Woodbine Street near Central Avenue in Brooklyn just before 9:30AM on Friday when he was accosted by his alleged attacker, a man who was later identified as 29yr old Rafael Fuller. Ponce-Farfan, who worked as a Livery Cab Driver, was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital in Queens where he was pronounced deceased.
Fuller, it turns out, lived only one block over from the scene of the attack. Police were able to track down Fuller, who then barricaded himself inside the residence. The NYPDs’ elite Emergency Services Unit was brought in and successfully apprehended Fuller. Fuller was later charged with Murder 2 and Criminal Possession of a Weapon.
Crime Scene Detectives process the scene of the crime in Brooklyn on Friday November 23, 2018. (Credit: Theodore Parisienne)
By Theodore Parisienne Updated June 7th, 2018 at 8:23AM
Back on Tuesday April 3rd, 2018, Officers from the NYPD Harbor Unit recovered the body of a man from the Gowanus Canal. Photos from the scene showed that the man had duct tape wrapped around his head. Today, The Medical Examiner has ruled the death a Homicide. According to the Police Department, they are still working to find the identity of the victim. The Investigation is ongoing.
Police responding to a call of a person shot at 475 Hendrix Street in Brooklyn found a man unconscious and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the shoulder inside apartment 1B on Sunday.
Emergency Medical Personnel pronounced the man dead on the scene. Cops recovered a gun at the scene and arrested a 32yr old man, who knows the deceased, inside the same apartment. He was taken to the 75th Precinct in East New York where Charges are pending.
Police did not immediately identify the victim, pending proper family notification. According to Police sources, this marked the first Homicide for the 75th Precinct, which encompasses East New York, for the year 2018, an improvement over 2017 when there were two Homicides recorded during the same period.
A 15yr old boy who attends the Midwood High School at 2839 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn was taken in for questioning after he approached School Safety Agents at about 1:30PM and informed them that he had a gun.
The gun turned out to be a loaded .22 caliber. Information as to the type of weapon and exactly where it was recovered was not revealed by authorities as their Investigation continues.