12 The QUEE NS Courier • JULY 10, 2014 FOR Breaking news visit www.queenscourier.com s police beat COMPILED BY CRISTABELLE TUMOLA Queens graffiti legend electrocuted by third rail Wet Basement? Call artie Basement Water Proofing Specialist Serving Queens for 35 Years For more information contact Artie DiBiase Mason Contractor 718.767.0072 Licensed #08097 and Insured View More Neighborhood News Public Notice The NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation has determined that site #241014, the Roehr Chemicals, Inc. site, may be deleted from the NYS Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites. This site is located at 52-28 37th Street, Long Island City, NY. Submit comments no later than August 11, 2014 online at www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/60063.html or send to Sondra Martinkat, NYSDEC-Region 2, One Hunter’s Point Plaza, 1st Floor, 47-40 21st Street, Long Island City, NY 11101; [email protected]; or call 718-482-4891. Sign up with email listservs at www.dec.ny.gov/chemical/61092.html to have information such as this sent by email. 101st Precinct Rockaway Peninsula 26-year-old killed in Far Rockaway motorcycle collision A motorcyclist lost his life on July 4 after striking a utility pole in Far Rockaway, police said. Marcus Joel, 26, of South Ozone Park, was riding his motorcycle on Seagirt Boulevard near Beach 13th Street just after 6 p.m. when the accident occurred, according to authorities. As he was traveling down the roadway, he hit a curb before crashing into a wooden utility pole, cops said. Joel was taken to Jamaica Hospital where he was pronounced dead. 110th Precinct Corona and Elmhurst Driver charged after fatally striking pedestrian on Roosevelt Avenue An alleged drunk driver has been charged after hitting and killing a pedestrian in Jackson Heights, cops said. The crash happened at about 4:30 a.m. on July 5 on Roosevelt Avenue near 92nd Street, according to officials. The victim, a man, who, as of press time, had yet to be identified by police, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver, 42-year-old Romulo Mejia, of Bradenton, Florida, and his passenger, a 35-year-old woman, were taken to Elmhurst Hospital in stable condition, cops said. Mejia has been charged with vehicular manslaughter with a previous conviction for DWI, criminally negligent homicide, aggravated unlicensed operator, and DWI with a previous conviction in the past 10 years, according to police. Elmhurst mother charged with murder of baby An Elmhurst mother has been arrested after she apparently suffocated her 11-month-old son inside their apartment, officials said. Officers, responding to a 9-1-1 call of a baby not breathing, arrived at the 52nd Avenue home of Nicole Kelly, 22, around 4 p.m. on July 6, according to police. They were then informed that the child, Kiam Felix Jr., had been taken to Elmhurst Hospital. Kiam was pronounced dead at the hospital. His mother, Kelly, has been charged with seconddegree murder in his death, officials said. Kelly allegedly made statements implicating herself in her son’s killing, saying, “I reached my breaking point, I didn’t want him anymore,” according to District Attorney Richard Brown. She is accused of covering the face and body of her child by tucking him into a bed sheet, then watching him struggle to breathe and move before leaving him alone for about 30 minutes, the district attorney said. When Kelly came back, he was allegedly blue and unresponsive, and she did not take him to the hospital until several hours later. A spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office said the cause of death is still pending, but according to the district attorney’s office, “preliminary findings are consistent with the defendant’s statements that she prevented the child from breathing.” On Monday, Kelly said in a post on her Facebook page that she wished there was some way she could bring him back and should have protected him as his mother. “Missing my baby boy so much wish there was some way I could bring him back to life I feel horrible knowing he passed away Am his Mother I was supposed to protect him I know his spirit will always be around me I would never forget my 1st Born he will forever remain in my heart & his family hearts,” she wrote. As of press time, Kelly was awaiting arraignment. 114th Precinct Astoria, Long Island City, Woodside and Jackson Heights Man arrested in Astoria shooting of teen, second person Two people, including a teenage boy, were shot in Astoria, police said. The shooting happened in front of the Astoria Houses on 8th Street around 4:30 p.m. on July 3, cops said. A 15-year-old boy suffered a gunshot wound to the shoulder and a 30-year old man was struck in the torso and leg, according to officials. They were taken to Elmhurst Hospital where the teen is listed in stable condition and the man is listed in critical but stable condition, cops said. Both are likely to survive. Following the gunfire, officers saw a man fleeing from the scene and jump into the passenger side of a black Acura at the corner of 27th Avenue and 8th Street, police said. The car then sped off before crashing into another vehicle at 26th Avenue and 21st Street. The passenger and the driver both tried to flee on foot following the collision. But cops were able to nab the passenger, 34-year-old Shannon Smith, of Valley Stream, Long Island, and place him under arrest and recover a handgun at the scene, officials said. Smith faces attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment, criminal possession of stolen property and resisting arrest charges, according to police. A Queens graffiti legend was killed when he was electrocuted by the third rail at a Brooklyn subway station, according to a published report. Jason Wulf, 42, known as “DG,” died around 10 p.m. on July 2 at the 25th Street Station in Sunset Park, the New York Post reported. Wulf was heading to his Queens home at the time, but it wasn’t clear what he was doing when he was found dead on the tracks and the MTA is investigating, the Post said. An online fundraiser was also set up to raise money for his funeral service that reached its goal of $10,000. According to the Post, on July 7 a wake was scheduled to be held for Wulf at Seneca Chapels followed by a funeral service at St. Matthias Church in Ridgewood. Wulf, a writer, artist and founder of NWC (New Wave Crew) comes from Ridgewood, and started his career in 1985, even “painting subway cars during the clean train movement, a time period in the 1990s when many writers continued to hit trains regardless of the MTA’s strict buff policy,” according to Animal New York. “DG was able to pull off what many of his fellow writers couldn’t: Create a body of artwork that is intrinsically graffiti, but not a redundant reiteration of his work on the street. Despite his outpouring of creativity, he never embraced the art world or graffiti circuit. Although he sold canvasses, he represented that older school breed of graffiti writer who had no interest in mainstream recognition,” Bucky Turco of Animal New York wrote. Photo courtesy of NYPD queenscourier.com
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