12 The QUEE NS Courier • AUGUST 25, 2016 FOR Breaking news visit www.qns.com police beat Compiled by Suzanne Monteverdi, Robert Pozarycki and Angela Matua Photo via Google Maps 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 Fresh Meadows man charged for killing mate A Fresh Meadows resident who tried to jump off the ledge of a Manhattan building earlier this week has been charged with murdering his roommate inside their Pomonok home earlier this month. Chitwah Tse, 73, was charged on Aug. 23 with the Aug. 1 murder of 61-year-old Huizhen Zhan. After becoming a suspect, Tse attempted to jump off the ledge of a building in Tribeca, but was able to be pulled into safety by officers, according to earlier reports. He received subsequent medical attention. Zhan was discovered by officers from the 107th Precinct on Aug. 1 in her 65th Avenue apartment lying face up in a bed located in the basement. She was unconscious and unresponsive with a pillow over her face. The NYC Medical Examiner later pronounced it a homicide; the cause of death was determined to be a blow to the head. Zhan and Tse shared the apartment and were in a relationship. The motive is unknown and remains under investigation, according to police. Photo courtesy of New York Daily News/Bryan Pace Oscar Morel (center) is led out of the 107th Precinct stationhouse Monday night after being charged with killing an Ozone Park imam and his assistant on Aug. 13. Inset photo: NYPD/Photo: Google Maps Murder 1 indictment for alleged imam killer A grand jury handed down on Aug. 22 a first-degree murder charge for a Brooklyn man accused of executing an Ozone Park imam and his assistant on a neighborhood street earlier this month. Oscar Morel, 35, was arrested on Aug. 15 for fatally shooting Imam Maulana Akonjee and Thara Uddin on the afternoon of Aug. 13 as they walked home from afternoon prayers at the Al- Furquan Jame Masjid mosque on Glenmore Avenue in Ozone Park. The grand jury’s indictment of Morel on Aug. 22 includes one count of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, according to Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown. He remains held in jail without bail. The first-degree murder count, he noted, reflects that Morel allegedly acted with intent to cause someone’s death. “The defendant’s alleged actions strike at the very heart of our county’s Muslim community,” Brown said in a statement on Monday. “Both victims were gentle men of peace and their deaths are a devastating loss to their families and the community that they served.” Law enforcement sources said Morel walked up to the imam and Uddin in the vicinity of 79th Street and Liberty Avenue at about 1:30 p.m. on Aug. 13. Without saying a word, he allegedly pulled out a gun and shot Akonjee and Uddin in the head, then fled the scene. Both men were rushed to local hospitals and later died of their injuries. Police tracked down Morel following an extensive investigation that linked him to a hit-and-run accident that occurred in East New York just moments after the shooting. The gun allegedly used in the double homicide was found hidden inside a wall in Morel’s residence. The motive remains unknown and under investigation; in an interview with the New York Daily News from his jail cell, Morel claimed that he wasn’t the man who pulled the trigger. If convicted of first-degree murder, Morel faces life in prison without the possibility of parole, Brown stated. Crook slugs guy for wallet at Astoria building Police are looking for a man who punched another man to the ground before stealing his wallet in an Astoria apartment. On Aug. 13 at 4:45 a.m., a 51-year-old man was walking into a residential building on 23rd Street when the suspect approached him from behind and covered his mouth. He then punched the man on the right side of his face, which caused the victim to fall to the ground. The suspect then stole the victim’s wallet from his back pocket and fled the location. The individual is described as a black male, approximately 25- to 35-years-old, 6 feet and last seen wearing a blue and green tank top, khaki shorts and black sneakers. Anyone with info in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS or for Spanish 888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website or texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls and messages are kept confidential.
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