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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 ...

Wake Up for Subway Mugging in the Bronx

The NYPD is searching for this man in connection with a mugging in a Bronx subway train.

By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

October 1, 2022 


BRONX - A Bronx straphanger woke up to a mugging on a subway train in Wakefield. 





At around 4:48 am on September 25, a 46-year-old man was sleeping on a northbound Number 2 train. Cops say at the East 241st Street - Wakefield Station, a man walked over to the straphanger and woke him up.

 



The startled victim began to walk away when the man who woke him up began punching him. The attacker removed the straphanger’s wallet and fled the train at the station. 




Cops say the victim suffered minor cuts to his forehead and the right side of his face.  


The NYPD released surveillance video of the suspect on the train platform. 





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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