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Bronx Local News: Bronx Man Gets 22 Years for Fatal Shooting and Slashing Correction Officers in Jail

Gunned Down Rival, Slashed Guards on Rikers - Sentenced to 22 Years  Bronx Voice  November 14, 2025 BRONX LOCAL NEWS - A Bronx man has been sentenced to 22 years in prison after a brutal killing on the streets of the Bronx and a violent attack on correction officers while he was locked up awaiting trial. Anthony Taveras-Morales, 24, was sentenced to 20 years for the fatal shooting of 29-year-old Jaguar Housey, and an additional two years for slashing two NYC Department of Correction officers while on Rikers Island. The sentences will be served consecutively, meaning Taveras-Morales will spend the next two decades behind bars. According to Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark, the shooting was the result of a feud between Taveras-Morales and Housey that had been simmering for days. The two had a physical altercation on September 14, 2020, which Taveras-Morales posted on social media, further escalating the tension. Two days later, on September 16, Housey spot...

Attackers Beat Man with a Scooter

Metal Scooter Used to Beat Man

The NYPD is searching for these two men in connection to a beating with a metal scooter. -Photo by NYPD
The NYPD is searching for these two men in connection to a beating with a metal scooter. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice

January 25, 2024


BRONX - Police are looking for a pair of attackers who beat a Bronx man with a metal scooter.




At around 2:15 pm on January 24, a 23-year-old man was walking in the vicinity of East 168th Street and Ogden Avenue. Cops said two men ran up to him and pounced.


The attackers punched and kicked the man and then started wailing on him with a metal scooter, cops said.


Both attackers fled on foot in an unknown direction.


Low Profile? Smoke Shop Thieves Use Luxury SUV as Getaway Car

The NYPD is searching for this BMW in connection with the burglary of a smoke shop in Queens. -Photo by NYPD


QUEENS - A pair of smoke shop thieves may have thought they would attract little attention with their clothing but then drove a pretty conspicuous getaway car - an $80,000 plus luxury SUV, the NYPD said.

 


The victim was treated for his injuries at the scene.


Police did not reveal a motive for the beating.


Both suspects are males with medium complexions and medium builds. Both men wore black bubble jackets.



Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to 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 are strictly confidential.




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