12 The QUEE NS Courier • JANUARY 29, 2015 FOR Breaking news visit www.queenscourier.com Compiled by Cristabelle Tumola police beat LJC@loucarino.com 100th Precinct Rockaway Peninsula Far Rockaway man arraigned in killing of rival dollar van driver: DA A Far Rockaway man is facing a possible life sentence after gunning down a rival dollar van driver in broad daylight Cement & Brick Work Old World Craftsmanship Cement & Brick Work CALL ARTIE Basement Water Proofing Specialist Serving Queens for 35 Years Serving Queens for 35 Years For more information contact Artie DiBiase Mason Contractor 718.767.0072 Licensed #808097 and Insured Licensed #808097 and Insured Old World Craftsmanship CALL ARTIE Basement Water Proofing Specialist Pavers and Exposed Aggregate Concrete For more information contact Artie DiBiase Mason Contractor 718.767.0072 and tampering with evidence earlier this week, the district attorney’s office said. Fabian Sullivan, 38, was arraigned on Jan. 22 on charges of second-degree murder, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and tampering with physical evidence. He was ordered held without bail. If convicted, he faces up to 25 years to life in prison. Sullivan, an unlicensed livery driver, got into an argument with the victim, 38-year-old Leon Brown, on the morning of Jan. 20, according to prosecutors. He then allegedly used his vehicle to cut off Brown’s Ford Ecoline van near the intersection of Rockaway Beach Boulevard and Beach 81st Street before getting out of his vehicle and firing a single shot. Brown, a Far Rockaway resident, suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and his van rolled into a parked car. He was taken to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, where he died. Sullivan, according to District Attorney Richard Brown, fled the scene and was apprehended after he gave a bag containing bullets from the murder weapon to his sister-in-law, Hind Chokary. Chokary, 27, of St. Albans, Queens, was arraigned on the night of Jan. 22 on a tampering with physical evidence charge and released on her own recognizance. If convicted, she faces up to four years in prison. 102nd Precinct Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill East, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven and Ozone Park Man fatally shot in Richmond Hill Police are trying to identify two suspects in a deadly Richmond Hill shooting. Derek Quattlebaum, of Brooklyn, was found at Van Wyck Expressway and Atlantic Avenue at about 3 p.m. on Jan. 20 with gunshot wounds to his head, torso and limbs, cops said. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital but did not survive. Two men approached Quattlebaum at a BP gas station, located on the intersection where he was gunned down, according to police. Video footage released by police shows two people running into a car at the station. The two suspects were driving a 2003 blue Audi A6 with the Vermont license plate GHF- 306. To see the footage, visit www.queenscourier.com. Anyone with info is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (8477). 112th Precinct Forest Hills and Rego Park Police looking for trio of thieves who stole fur coats from Forest Hills store A group of high-end shoplifters was able to sneak three fur coats out of a discount designer store in Forest Hills earlier this month, according to police. The suspects, two men and a woman, took the merchandise from Fox’s at 70-39 Austin St. about 3:10 p.m. on Jan. 7. After removing three fur coats from the racks and concealing them under their clothing, they fled the store. Police describe the two male suspects as black and in their 30s. One man is about 5 feet 8 inches tall and 180 pounds; the second man is about 5 feet 9 inches tall and 190 pounds. The female suspect is black, in her mid-20s, about 5 feet 7 inches tall and 175 pounds. She has braids and was wearing a light brown hat. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (8477). 113th Precinct St. Albans, Hollis, Springfield Gardens, South Ozone Park, Jamaica, Addisleigh Park and Locust Manor Arrest made in assault of of-duty cop outside St. Albans supermarket Police have arrested a man in the assault of an off-duty NYPD officer outside a St. Albans supermarket less than 24 hours after releasing video footage of the suspect. “The defendant is accused of allowing a relatively minor bumping incident in a supermarket — to which he was not even directly involved — to rapidly escalate into a violent assault that resulted in him causing serious physical injury to his victim,” District Attorney Richard Brown said. The accused attacker, Tommie Williams, 27, of Jamaica, was arraigned on Jan. 23 on assault and harassment charges, according to the district attorney’s office. The victim, a 42-year-old off-duty cop, was at the Pathmark on Springfield Boulevard near 132nd Avenue on the afternoon of Jan. 19 when he accidentally bumped into Williams’ girlfriend, according to Brown. Williams confronted the officer, telling him that he would be outside waiting for him. As the officer was walking to his car, Williams came up to him and punched him in the face, causing the officer to fall to ground, authorities said. Williams then got into a vehicle. When the cop tried to approach the car and take a photo of it with his cellphone, Williams allegedly punched him and he fell to the ground again. Williams then fled in the vehicle. The officer had to undergo surgery for facial fractures, which required a metal plate and metal wires to be placed in his face. If convicted, Williams could spend up to seven years in prison. Father massacres his own family, killing three and wounding one before taking his own life A Springfield Gardens man inexplicably massacred his own family early on the morning of Jan. 24 when he methodically shot his two daughters, their mother and their grandmother, leaving three dead and a 12-year-old girl fighting for her life, police said. The gunman, Jonathon Walker, 34, fled the bloodsplattered home he shared with his family in his GMC Arcadia, prompting an NYPD manhunt that ended five hours later when police discovered him dead behind the wheel of his vehicle, where he took his own life. Officers found the four victims inside their home on 148th Avenue near 231st Street at about 5:40 a.m. All of them had been shot in the head, cops said. They were called to the scene by Walker’s 12-year-old daughter, who phoned 911 despite having a gunshot wound to her head, according to published reports. Viola Warren, 62, her daughter, Shantai Hale, 31, and Hale’s daughter, 7-year-old Kayla Walker, were pronounced dead at the scene. The 12-year-old girl, Christina Walker, also Hale’s daughter, was taken to Long Island Jewish Medical Center in critical condition. She is now in a medically induced coma, reports said. Police say that Walker, the girls’ father and Hale’s common-law husband, shot the four and then escaped their home in his car. Sources told the New York Post that Walker believed his longtime partner had been unfaithful and shot his daughters because he didn’t want them to end up in foster care after the attack. Walker was found dead from an apparent selfinflicted gunshot wound to the head about five hours later inside his vehicle in a wooded area just south of the Belt Parkway near the Lefferts Boulevard exit, cops said. A .45-caliber gun was recovered. Photo courtesy of NYPD Fabian Sullivan has been charged in the shooting death of rival dollar van driver in the Rockaways. Photo courtesy of NYPD Jonathon Walker was found dead after shooting four people in his Springfield Gardens home.
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