Claremont shocked at infants’ death
Residents say violent crimes happen in the area ‘but not like this’
BY ALEX MITCHELL
Just a day after a west Bronx
building superintendent called
911 upon seeing the horror of
two twin, one-week-old infants
lying dead on a patio, Crime
Stoppers posters became
draped throughout the area of
a College Avenue building and
its surrounding streets.
This area of Claremont, one
that’s perched around various
shelters is no stranger to violent
crime, neighbors said.
One man who lived a few
properties down from the now
notorious building until a September
fi re ravaged his home,
told of three nearby shootings
from Fourth of July weekend,
a time he referred to as “the
weekend of death.”
Three neighbors residing
on adjacent E. 171st Street
live in a building where one of
those July killings occurred –
but even they said the infants’
murder is uncharacteristic for
their block.
That same man who once
lived next to the crime scene
also claimed that no residents
inside of the College
Avenue building had ever appeared
to be pregnant while
he stayed there, suggesting
that the responsible parties
were possibly outsiders to
the neighborhood.
Another mother who lives
just south of College Avenue
on Webster Avenue came by
to see the crime scene herself
while accompanied by her
young daughter.
That woman said she saw
fi rst responders frantically
rushing to the scene on Monday
afternoon with an extremely
noticeable sense of
urgency – one which made
her curious to peek into the
now empty and police-less
alleyways surrounding the
building in question.
Anyone with information
in regard to this incident is
asked to call the NYPD’s Crime
Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-
TIPS (8477) or for Spanish,
1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You
can also submit tips online
at nypdcrimestoppers.com,
or on Twitter @NYPDTips.
All calls and messages are
kept confi dential.
Detectives put up wanted posters throughout the west Bronx community after twin infants were found in the
rear of a College Avenue building Monday. Photo by Alex Mitchell
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