8 FEBRUARY 14, 2019 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
EDAVENPORT@QNS.COM
@QNS
A51-year-old man remains
locked up after being
arrested last week for
a violent assault on a woman
at her Middle Village home,
prosecutors announced.
David Vittor, 51, was arrested
on Feb. 6 and charged with
assault, attempted assault,
criminal contempt, aggravated
criminal contempt, burglary,
petit larceny and harassment.
According to the criminal
complaint that the Queens
District Attorney’s office
provided, at around 6 p.m. on
Feb. 4, Vittor allegedly got
into an argument with an
unidentified female victim at
her home on 67th Road about his
drinking. Charges say that the
argument escalated, allegedly
causing Vittor to grab the victim
by the hair, dragged her down
the stairs and kicked her in the
back.
Vittor then allegedly dragged
the victim down another set of
stairs to the home’s basement,
law enforcement sources said. It
was there that Vittor allegedly
proceeded to punch the victim
in the face repeatedly, stating, in
sum and substance, “I’m going
to kill you.”
Prosecutors said that Vittor
then allegedly grabbed the
victim by the hair once again
and struck her head against the
floor multiple times.
The victim suffered deep
lacerations to the back of her
head, cuts and abrasions to the
side of her head and inside her
mouth, bruising all over her face
and as well as substantial pain,
annoyance and alarm. She was
taken to a local hospital, where
she received 11 staples for her
injuries.
Following the attack, Vittor
allegedly took the victim’s
cellphone and her car keys. The
Queens District Attorney office
declined to provide the nature
of the relationship between
Vittor and the victim.
The Queens Criminal Court
granted the victim a temporary
order of protection against
Vittor, who was scheduled to
return to court on Feb. 11.
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
RPOZARYCKI@QNS.COM
@ROBBPOZ
Detectives have arrested a
Rego Park man accused of
allegedly stabbing his pregnant
girlfriend to death in Ridgewood
earlier this week.
Cops said that Anthony Hobson, 48,
of 64th Avenue turned himself in to
police on Feb. 8 at the 104th Precinct’s
Ridgewood stationhouse. Following
question, he was charged in the Feb.
3 murder of Jennifer Irigoyen, 35, in
the lobby of an apartment building
on Myrtle Avenue between Decatur
Street and Fresh Pond Road.
Sources familiar with the
investigation told QNS that Hobson
got into a dispute with Irigoyen in the
lobby of the Myrtle Avenue location
just before 1 a.m. on Feb. 3. Irigoyen,
whose residential address is Saunders
Street in Rego Park, was said to be
living in the Ridgewood apartment
house at the time.
The dispute turned violent, police
said, when Hobson allegedly stabbed
Irigoyen, who was 14 weeks pregnant,
in the neck and torso, then fl ed the
scene.
According to Queens District
Attorney Richard A. Brown, security
camera footage from the scene showed
Hobson allegedly dragging Irigoyen
from a third-fl oor hallway into the
stairwell before stabbing her.
Blood covers the step leading to the
lobby of a Myrtle Avenue apartment
building in Ridgewood where a
Anthony Hobson put his head down as detectives escorted him out of the
104th Precinct stationhouse in Ridgewood on Feb. 8 after being charged in
the Feb. 3 murder of Jennifer Irigoyen. Photo by Robert Stridiron
35-year-old pregnant woman was
stabbed to death on Feb. 3. (Photo by
Robert Stridiron)
Offi cers from the 104th Precinct
and EMS units responded to a 911 call
about the stabbing. Paramedics rushed
Irigoyen to Wyckoff Heights Medical
Center, where she was pronounced
dead. Doctors also could not save her
unborn baby.
Hobson was ordered held without
bail following his Feb. 8 arraignment
in Queens Criminal Court on charges
of murder, tampering with physical
evidence, and criminal possession of
a weapon. He faces up to 25 years to life
in prison if convicted, Brown said.
“This was a heinous crime. A woman
was brutally stabbed — killing her and
the unborn child,” Brown said on Feb.
8. “Hobson is alleged to have shown
no mercy and no regard for human
life when he repeatedly and purposely
plunged a knife into this expectant
mother’s abdomen, torso and neck.
The defendant, now in custody, faces
spending the rest of his days locked
behind bars.”
Glendale man pinched for bodega robbery
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
RPOZARYCKI@QNS.COM
@ROBBPOZ
Video footage helped detectives
arrest a Glendale man last
week who allegedly robbed a
Ridgewood grocery store at knifepoint
and assaulted a store employee.
Law enforcement sources said that
John Schnitzler, 29, of 64th Lane was
arrested on Feb. 7 for his alleged role
in the Nov. 19, 2018, stickup at the
Lucky Guy Deli and Grocery, located
at 72-20 Forest Ave.
According to the criminal
complaint that the Queens District
Attorney’s offi ce provided, Schnitzler
allegedly wore a partial face mask
and displayed a knife upon walking
into the deli at about 10:35 a.m. on Nov.
19, 2018, and confronting a male clerk.
Cops said he demanded cash and then
punched the worker in the face.
Authorities said Schnitzler
allegedly removed $450 in cash from
behind the counter and headed for
the door, dropping the knife in the
process.
Offi cers from the 104th Precinct
responded to the reported robbery.
The victim suff ered minor injuries.
Police recovered the knife left at the
scene as well as video footage from
two nearby security cameras, the
criminal complaint noted. The footage
allegedly showed Schnitzler running
at the corner of Norman Street and
Forest Avenue just moments aft er the
robbery while wearing the partial
face mask as well as a black hooded
sweatshirt, dark pants and sneakers.
The evidence led the 104th Precinct
Detective Squad to question Schnitzler,
who allegedly admitted that he was
the masked individual in one of the
videos.
Stills from the video which police
released days aft er the robbery show
the suspect without wearing a facial
mask.
Schnitzler was arraigned in Queens
Criminal Court on Feb. 8 on charges
including fi rst-degree robbery and
criminal possession of a weapon.
According to court records, he was
ordered held on $10,000 cash bail or
$5,000 bond, and to return to court
on Feb. 22.
Th robbery suspect, identifi ed by
police as John Schnitzler.
Photo courtesy of NYPD
Enraged man
brutally beats
Midville woman
No bail for Ridgewood murder suspect
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