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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 ...

ARREST - Elderly Female Mugged in Elevator

Cops Nab Suspect in Attack on Senior
The NYPD announced the arrest of a suspect in the July mugging of an elderly woman inside an elevator in an apartment building. -Photo by NYPD

The NYPD announced the arrest of a suspect in the July mugging of an elderly woman inside an elevator in an apartment building. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

April 14, 2024


BRONX - Cops arrested a suspect in the mugging of an elderly woman inside an elevator in a Bronx building.


Police arrested 23-year-old David Jenkins of Bruckner Boulevard. He was charged with robbery.



At around 8:30 am on July 10, a 77-year-old woman was riding an elevator inside an apartment building at 2460 Bronxwood Avenue. As the woman was trying to exit the elevator, a man walked up to her.


Without warning the man pushed the elderly woman to the ground. He then yanked the woman’s wallet out of her hands and walked off.



Police released surveillance video of the suspect walking into a Bronx building with a Citi bike rented bicycle. Cops said this is the man who attacked an elderly woman in another nearby building.


Investigators were able to obtain video of the suspect from another building’s surveillance cameras. The suspect was captured on camera entering 920 Mace Avenue on a Citi Bike.




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