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Cops Looking for Cellphone Store Shooter

Police set up a crime scene after a bullet crashed through the window of Metro by T-Mobile at Morris Park Avenue and Hunt Avenue at 2 p.m. on November 7. -Photo by David Greene By David Greene  Bronx Voice  November 21, 2024 Follow @Bronxvoice1 BRONX - Police are currently looking for an assailant who fired a gunshot at another unknown individual along busy Morris Park Avenue. The bullet smashed through the front door of a phone store, thankfully no one was injured. Police officials say the incident was reported at 2 p.m. on November 7, outside of the Green Olive Deli, located at 716 Morris Park Avenue, at the corner of Hunt Avenue. Officials say the unknown gunman fired a single shot at a second individual and missed. The bullet flew across the street and through the front door of Metro by T-Mobile, at 723 Morris Park Avenue. Both the gunman and victim fled the scene on foot. No description of the gunman was

Rikers Inmate Attacked Guard with Mop Handle, DA says


BRONX - An inmate on Rikers Island has been charged with attacking a guard with a mop handle in an unprovoked attack in the jail. The inmate threw the mop handle like a javelin nearly missing the guard’s eye, prosecutors said.


District Attorney Darcel Clark said defendant Nakim Williams, 29, was arraigned on December 28, 2022 on three counts of second-degree Assault, first and second-degree Promoting Prison Contraband, Obstructing Governmental Administration, and fourth-degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon before Bronx Supreme Court Justice Steven Hornstein. The defendant was remanded and is due back in court on March 16, 2023

       

According to the investigation, on September 9, 2022, in the George R. Vierno Center, Williams allegedly removed a mop from a janitor’s closet and unscrewed the stick handle. A 56-year-old Correction Officer was making notes in a logbook at his station near the defendant when Williams allegedly took the mop stick and threw it through the station window, striking the victim in the head, causing a deep cut near his eye. He was treated at Mount Sinai Hospital for the laceration that required surgical glue closure. The victim also suffered bruising and pain.


“The defendant allegedly unscrewed the mop head and used the stick as a javelin, throwing it at a Correction Officer who was behind a station window,” Clark said. “The victim suffered an injury to his face that had to be surgically glued shut, along with significant bruising.”

 

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