FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.couriersun.com MAY 7, 2015 • THE COURIER SUN 3 FAKE 911 CALL BACKFIRES FOR HOWARD BEACH BURGLARY SUSPECT Rosedale businessman shot to death in car in St. Albans BY ROBERT POZARYCKI [email protected]/@robbpoz Detectives are searching for the killer of a Rosedale businessman and civic activist who was gunned down inside a car on a St. Albans block on the afternoon of April 29. Jerwaine Gorman, 34, was shot in the chest while sitting inside a Mercedes-Benz in front of a home on 167th Street between Linden Boulevard and 115th Avenue at about 12:30 p.m. A woman sitting in the driver’s seat at the time was not injured, cops said. According to police, an unidentifi ed gunman walked up to the vehicle and fi red a single shot at Gorman before fl eeing the scene. Paramedics rushed Gorman to Jamaica Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later. Gorman was an active member of the Southeast Queens Young Democrats and a successful entrepreneur in the area. According to his biography on the club’s website, Gorman started out as a real estate investor in 2003 at the age of 21. Within three years, he had acquired seven properties. In 2006, Gorman opened up his own barbershop and community center and launched a Cold Stone Creamery franchise in Huntington, Long Island. He later opened his own ice cream parlor, Gorman’s Creamery, on Merrick Boulevard in Laurelton. In the community, Gorman reportedly coached a youth football team and advocated in previous years to have a stop sign installed in front of his daughter’s school. Gorman leaves behind a wife and three children. Anyone with information regarding the murder is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (8477). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website or can text their tips to CRIMES (274637), then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confi dential. Photo via Twitter/@jerwainegorman Jerwaine Gorman Photo courtesy of NYPD Part of the wanted poster featuring Hamilton Beach resident and suspected burglar Keith Kolm. BY ROBERT POZARYCKI [email protected]/@robbpoz Instead of driving the police away with a fake emergency call, a suspected burglar wound up bringing more cops to his Hamilton Beach block on the afternoon of April 30. Keith Kolm, 25, of 164th Road, allegedly broke into the Key Food supermarket at 163-30 Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach at 6 a.m. on April 6 and stole the shop’s ATM. Through an investigation, the 106th Precinct Detective Squad linked Kolm to the crime and “plastered the neighborhood” with wanted posters featuring his mugshot, one law enforcement source said. Plainclothes offi cers staked out the suspect’s home for several weeks, but he never surfaced. At about 3:45 p.m. on April 30, police received a 911 call regarding an offi - cer in need of assistance at the corner of Linden Boulevard and the Van Wyck Expressway service road in South Ozone Park, authorities said. While heading to the scene with other units, an on-duty supervisor requested the location of where the 911 call was made; police learned that the call came from a cellphone in Hamilton Beach. Plainclothes offi cers stationed outside Kolm’s home activated their sirens and drove around the corner, according to authorities. After a few moments, they returned to the location and observed Kolm walking outside his home. “That call was placed so he could get out of the house,” a law enforcement source said. Kolm then led offi cers on a foot pursuit through Hamilton Beach streets and backyards, prompting additional NYPD units to respond to the area, police said. At about 4:30 p.m., offi cers apprehended the suspect on the rooftop of a home in the area of 104th Street and 163rd Drive. Kolm remains held on more than $20,000 bail on charges including burglary, grand larceny, reckless endangerment, fi ling a false report, obstruction of governmental administration and criminal possession of a controlled substance. Key Food supermarket at 163-30 Cross Bay Blvd. in Howard Beach
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