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Bayside ice cream shop picks up pieces after fi re
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
rpozarycki@qns.com
@robbpoz
Firefi ghters worked quickly to put out
a fi re that broke out inside a Bayside ice
cream shop on Saturday morning.
According to the Fire Department, the
one-alarm blaze occurred at about 6:10
a.m. on Nov. 3 inside of Ben & Teena’s Ice
Cream Shop at 39-33 Bell Blvd., between
39th and 40th avenues.
Three now in jail for College Point murder
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
others that occurred earlier that morning
rpozarycki@qns.com
at the Angels Strip Club in Flushing.
@robbpoz
Based on confessions from Palmer and
Guiteau and other evidence obtained
A Brooklyn man arrested in Florida in
during the investigation, police determined
connection with a deadly College Point
that Palmer drove a black BMW,
shooting last month now fi nds himself
with Lee, Guiteau and another man riding
in jail indefi nitely.
along. Th ey followed Campbell, who
Brandon Lee, 23, was ordered held
was driving a black Lexus and accompanied
without bail aft er being arraigned on
by his girlfriend, at 3:24 a.m. on
Nov. 1 in Queens Criminal Court for the
Oct. 1 to the intersection of Ulmer Street
Oct. 1 murder of Jaquan Campbell, 25.
and the Whitestone Expressway.
Two others connected to the execution
According to the criminal complaint
— Brooklyn residents Daijan Palmer, 25,
from the Queens District Attorney’s offi -
and Darvin Guiteau, 24 — were arrested
cers, all four suspects were armed with
two weeks ago and are also still locked
handguns.
up, according to police.
Police said that Palmer intentionally
Campbell was shot to death early on
rear-ended Campbell’s Lexus, prompting
Oct. 1 aft er being ambushed near the
the victim to stop his car at the corner of
College Point Multiplex on Ulmer Street.
28th Avenue and Linden Place. Palmer
Police sources said the murder stemmed
then stopped the black BMW, and he
from a dispute involving Campbell and
along with the three other suspects got
out of the vehicle and approached
Campbell. Th ey allegedly opened fi re on
the victim, striking him numerous times
in the chest.
Aft er the gunfi re, prosecutors said,
Palmer pulled the victim’s girlfriend out
of her seat, and he and the other suspects
got into the Lexus and drove away. Th ey
allegedly ditched the car at the corner of
120th Street and 26th Avenue, then fl ed
on foot.
Offi cers from the 109th Precinct
responded to the shooting. Paramedics
pronounced Campbell dead at the scene;
his girlfriend was unharmed.
Lee, Palmer and Guiteau were each
charged with second-degree murder,
fi rst-degree robbery, fi rst-degree armed
robbery, criminal possession of a weapon
and tampering with physical evidence.
If convicted, they each face up to
25 years to life in prison.
Sixty fi refi ghters from 12 units responded
to 911 calls about the blaze, and they
had the fi re beat in about a half-hour.
On its FDNY Alerts Twitter page, the
department declared the fi re under control
at 6:47 a.m. Th ere were no reported
injuries, according to an FDNY spokesperson.
Th e cause of the fi re is under
investigation.
Ben & Teena’s was previously known
as Maggie Moo’s ice cream, the owners
changed the name back in the spring.
Ben Katz, co-owner of the shop, told
QNS that there was no structural damage
to the building, and that they were
already working to replace damaged ice
cream-making equipment. He’s hopeful
the shop will be back up and running by
Th anksgiving.
Katz credited the Fire Department —
particularly the eff orts of nearby Engine
Company 306/Ladder Company 152,
located just two blocks away — for their
fast response in limiting the damage.
Photo via Facebook/NYPD 109th Precinct
Perps sought
for homicide
in Flushing
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
rpozarycki@qns.com
@robbpoz
Cops continue to look for those
responsible for the fatal shooting of
a 26-year-old man along a residential
Flushing street on Sunday morning.
Offi cers from the 109th Precinct
responded to a 911 call about the
shooting in front of a home on 45th
Avenue near 163rd Street at 4:30 a.m.
on Nov. 4.
Upon arriving at the scene, they
found Victor Alvarenga, 26, of 164th
Street in Flushing, unconscious and
unresponsive with multiple gunshot
wounds to his body.
Paramedics rushed him to
NewYork-Presbyterian Queens hospital,
where he was pronounced dead.
Alvarenga lived around the corner
from where he was fatally shot.
Police have not yet revealed any
information regarding a possible
motive, or a description of the suspect(
s) involved.
On Nov. 5, the 109th Precinct posted
on its Facebook account security
camera images of vehicles and potential
suspects connected to the homicide.
No arrests have been made as of
press time Wednesday aft ernoon.
Anyone with information regarding
the shooting or the suspect’s whereabouts
can call Crime Stoppers at
800-577-TIPS or the 109th Precinct
Detective Squad at 718-321-2294. All
calls are kept confi dential.
Photo: Mark Hallum/THE COURIER
The exterior of Ben & Teena’s Ice Cream Shop on Bell Boulevard in Bayside
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