Police blotter
Anti-Semitic graffiti on East
Village van infuriates pol
BY ROBERT
POZARYCKI
The sight of anti-Semitic
messages graffi
tied onto a parked
moving fan in the East
Village last week had one
local lawmaker infuriated.
State Senator Brad
Hoylman took to Twitter
on Sept. 25 and displayed
a photograph of Nazi messages
scrawled onto the side
of a Katz Moving van along
First Avenue between East
Second and Third Streets.
PHOTO VIA TWITTER/@BRADHOYLMAN,
Anti-semitic and neo-Nazi messages were scrawled
onto the side of this moving van spotted in the East
Village on Sept. 25, 2020.
Multiple swastikas had
been painted onto the van
along with the numbers
1488, a common code for
white supremacist and Nazi
messages.
Hoylman said he reported
the vandalism to the 9th
Precinct as well as the Anti-
Defamation League. On
Friday afternoon, however,
an NYPD spokesperson
did not have information
immediately available about
the complaint.
An incensed Hoylman
railed against the bigotry
on display as “sickening.”
“The perpetrators must
be found and held accountable,”
the lawmaker
tweeted on Friday morning.
“Go to hell, Nazis.”
Hoylman followed up in
REPUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION
the afternoon with a press
release formally condemning
the vandalism, and admonishing
President Trump
for helping to instigate a
spike in anti-Semitic hate
crimes since 2019.
“Hate is not welcome in
our district, in Manhattan,
or in any other part of our
city. More than half of New
York City’s hate crimes in
2019 victimized Jews, a
clear outgrowth of the hate
groups emboldened and tolerated
by President Donald
Trump. The perpetrators of
this attack must be caught
and held accountable,” he
said. “Remember, close to
40,000 Jewish Holocaust
survivors live in New York
City. It hurts my heart to
think that the many people
who found refuge in America
are still being targeted by
this hateful ideology. Go to
hell, Nazis.”
Bjorn Katz, a dispatcher
and spokesperson for Katz
Moving, condemned the
“heinous act” in an email,
and said crews would
remove the vandalism as
soon as possible.
Anyone with information
about the incident
can call Crime Stoppers at
800-577-TIPS (for Spanish,
dial 888-57-PISTA). You
can also submit tips online
at nypdcrimestoppers.com,
or on Twitter @NYPDTips.
All calls and messages are
kept confi dential.
PHOTO BY TODD MAISEL The body of a man was found floating in Harlem
Meer in Central Park this morning.
Mystery surrounds death of man found
floating in Harlem Meer in Central Park
BY TODD MAISEL
Detectives are looking into the death
of a 34-year-old man whose body
was found fl oating in Central
Park’s Harlem Meer last week, police
reported.
A fi sherman alerted park workers who
made the grisly discovery at 11:20 a.m. on
Sept. 24 authorities said. Police offi cers
pulled the body from the water and covered
it with a white sheet.
A large blood stain appeared on the
sheet where the victim had suffered a head
wound, though its’ unclear whether he had
hit his head or was affl icted with it in any
other way, cops said.
Tipster helps detectives catch
homeless man behind brutal
Greenwich Village stabbing
BY ROBERT
POZARYCKI
Thanks to an anonymous
tip through
the Crime Stoppers
hotline, cops picked up a
homeless man on Sept. 25
for a recent, violent stabbing
inside a Greenwich
Village parking garage.
David Young, 31, faces
assault charges for allegedly
attacking a 52-year-old man
on the afternoon of Aug. 24
inside a garage located at
222 West 14th St.
At about 3:23 p.m.
that day, police reported,
Young and the victim got
into a verbal dispute that
led to a physical struggle.
The NYPD did not
Detectives stated they could not determine
the cause of death at this time, nor
could they say whether the death was the
result of an accident or an assault. The
Medical Examiner’s offi ce will conduct an
autopsy.
Police have not yet released the man’s
identity pending family notifi cation.
Park visitors could see the covered body
from shorelines along the Harlem Meer,
which stretches along Fifth Avenue to the
east and 110th Street to the north.
“I don’t know what could have caused
this to happen to anyone. It’s not the fi rst
time they’ve found someone in this lake,”
said Martin Subin, a resident of the area.
“It’s just horrible for his family, I’m sure.”
provide information on
what specifi cally sparked
the argument.
The video that police
provided shows the suspect
chasing the man inside the
building’s parking garage,
with two witnesses looking
on. After the victim tripped
and fell to the concrete
fl oor, the attacker — with
a sharp object in hand —
began swinging at the man.
One of the witnesses
attempted to intervene,
but backed off after the
attacker threatened him.
The suspect then stabbed
the victim again as he rose
to his feet, and the witness
then helped distance the
man from the attacker.
Following the attack, the
PHOTO COURTESY OF NYPD
The suspect behind an
Aug. 24, 2020 stabbing
inside a Greenwich Village
parking garage.
suspect exited the garage
and fl ed on foot westbound
along 14th Street toward
5th Avenue.
Offi cers from the 6th
Precinct and EMS units
responded to the scene.
Paramedics brought the
victim to Bellevue Hospital,
where he was listed in
stable condition.
LES man arrested for shaking
3-month-old boy to death: NYPD
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
The NYPD arrested a man for allegedly
shaking a baby, causing a brain
injury and later death on the Lower
East Side last week.
According to police, at 8:12 p.m. on
Sept. 21 the NYPD responded to a 911 call
regarding an infant needing assistance at an
apartment in the Vladeck Houses, located
at 662 Water St. Upon their arrival, offi cers
found 3-month-old Kesean Morgan unconscious
and unresponsive, with no obvious
signs of trauma observed.
The baby was rushed to Cornell Medical
Center, where he ultimately died of his
injuries on Sept. 24.
An investigation found that 30-year-old
David Patrick, who police say is the boyfriend
of the infant’s mother and lived at
the location, had shaken Morgan, causing
a brain injury and hemorrhaging. Patrick
was arrested on Sept. 23 and charged with
assault, reckless assault to a child-brain
injury, and acting in a manner injurious
to a child.
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