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Police officers stand at attention and salute as the body of Detective Didarul Islam is carried through the streets of Parkchester on July 31. -Photo by David Greene By David Greene Bronx Voice August 1, 2025 BRONX - Thousands of police officers from across the metropolitan area and beyond gathered at the Parkchester Jame Masjid on Virginia Avenue to pay their respects and say goodbye to fallen police officer Didarul Islam, 36. Islam was one of four people killed by ‘active shooter’ Shane Tamura, who walked into a midtown office building with an assault rifle on July 28. The gunman later fatally turned the gun on himself. On July 31, officers flooded the surrounding streets as several roadblocks were set up in the area with Sanitation trucks blocking several intersections. Public officials in attendance included Governor ...

Cold Case Car Shooting NYC

NYPD Re-Releases Homicide Video of Gunman Firing into Parked Car

A gunman opened fire into a parked car on Beach Avenue in 2020. Cops are hoping new information can help them crack this cold case.


By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

October 11, 2022 


BRONX - Investigators have re-released video from a fatal shooting in a two-year-old cold case in the Bronx in the hopes new tipsters will come forward. 





The NYPD released the video which shows a gunman firing point blank into a parked car on Beach Avenue in 2020. Anthony Martin, 27, was gunned down in the car.





At around 8 pm on August 15, 2020, Martin was sitting inside a sedan parked int front of 710 Beach Avenue in Soundview. Video from a nearby apartment building shows a man in a white T-shirt walking on the sidewalk. 


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When he gets to the car Martin was sitting in, the man pulls a gun out of his waistband and repeatedly fires into the car, striking Martin in the chest. The gunman then fled on foot.



Cops a say man jumped into the car and drove until he flagged down a police officer.  



Martin was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center but he was pronounced dead.





 

Anyone with information should call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 


All calls remain confidential.

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