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Offline v70cat

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Queens hit-and-run leaves one dead in Jackson Heights
« on: November 01, 2010, 09:04:25 AM »
A male pedestrian in his 40s was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Queens Sunday night, police said.

The victim was walking at the intersection of 37th Ave. and 91st St. in Jackson Heights when he was struck about 8:50 p.m. He was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital where he was declared dead.

The man was not carrying identification and his identity was not immediately known to investigators.

Police did not immediately have a description of the vehicle that hit the man.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/10/31/2010-10-31_queens_hitandrun_leaves_one_dead_in_jackson_heights.html#ixzz142GTxW1P
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Re: Queens hit-and-run leaves one dead in Jackson Heights
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2010, 10:46:39 AM »
Update from Gothamist says "Queens Hit And Run Now Called A Deadly Beating" :

http://mobile.gothamist.com/2010/11/01/queens_hit_and_run_now_called_a_dea.php
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Re: Queens hit-and-run leaves one dead in Jackson Heights
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2010, 12:14:16 PM »
That's so scary ... something so severe and vicious at 8:50PM (which isn't even that late). I'm sure most businesses were open at that time, so there should have been more witness accounts ... saddening indeed.

How much gang activity is there in JH?
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Re: Queens hit-and-run leaves one dead in Jackson Heights
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2010, 12:25:35 PM »
Quote from: adriana on November 01, 2010, 12:14:16 PM
That's so scary ... something so severe and vicious at 8:50PM (which isn't even that late). I'm sure most businesses were open at that time, so there should have been more witness accounts ... saddening indeed.

How much gang activity is there in JH?
I was thinking the same thing... I read this story last night when they were calling it a hit and run but it just baffles me how severely beaten this person was to be thought to have been run over... I also agree that there have had to been witnesses... Very scary indeed... On the subject of gang activity I'm guessing there is more than we really notice... I heard that last night there was also a stabbing atthe KFC on 88 and northern around the same time of this incident... My brother and his friend were walking home when they walked by there and saw the paramedics and the victim.

Looks like the beating was caught on surveillance video:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/11/01/2010-11-01_surveillance_video_shows_fatal_beating_in_queens_so_savage_that_police_mistook_i.html#ixzz142xfOcdE
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Re: Queens hit-and-run leaves one dead in Jackson Heights
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2010, 01:21:04 PM »
A lot of businesses close early on Sunday. I was out around the time and noticed how dark 37th Ave was. Was he found in the street, is that why they think it was a hit and run?

There was an article in NY Mag about gangs and they had a breakdown of which gangs hail from which neighborhoods. I think we had The Latin Kings? I could be wrong about this.
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Re: Queens hit-and-run leaves one dead in Jackson Heights
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2010, 01:31:49 PM »
Foxy, I think we also have MS 13 (Mara Salvatrucha). One of the scariest gangs around, in my opinion.  They are rampant in VA and MD, where I lived for many years, and have been making lots of inroads here in NYC (they are mainly from El Salvador, I think).  Very, very violent, even for a gang. 
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Re: Queens hit-and-run leaves one dead in Jackson Heights
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2010, 01:47:21 PM »
Here is the link to the article Foxy is referring to:

http://nymag.com/news/features/establishments/68516/

I actually came across it on the magazine and didn't really think much of it when I read it. I hope the police can make some progress and clarifications on the case.  It's such a shame to have this happen :(
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Fatal beating in Jackson Heights
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2010, 06:08:51 PM »
Sad to say but I was just commenting yesterday that murders in the 115th Pct. are at zero for the year.

Not anymore, this is so sad, and it happened on halloween with high police presence, and relatively early in the evening.
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Re: Queens hit-and-run leaves one dead in Jackson Heights
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2010, 08:14:54 PM »
This was not a 40 year old man, it was a 15 year old boy, who was a friend of my daughters. What the hell is this friggin world coming to. To was on the Spanish Station 41. Sad so effin sad :'(
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Re: Queens hit-and-run leaves one dead in Jackson Heights
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Re: Queens hit-and-run leaves one dead in Jackson Heights
« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2010, 10:02:03 PM »
Well, I don't know about him being a runaway, but he grew up in Jackson Heights and went to PS 148 and IS 145.
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Re: Queens hit-and-run leaves one dead in Jackson Heights
« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2010, 06:06:23 AM »
Such an awful, tragic waste. 

I honestly would like to know what is wrong with somebody who could do this to another person.
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Re: Queens hit-and-run leaves one dead in Jackson Heights
« Reply #12 on: November 02, 2010, 07:27:42 AM »
I agree this is awful. I wonder if the same group that I heard was causing trouble in the 70's was involved. There were police helicopters and alot of cruisers that night.
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