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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...
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Remembering 9/11

Cops, Community Remember Sept 11th 

Cops in the Bronx hold a moment of silence for the victims of 9/11. -Photo by David Greene
Cops in the Bronx hold a moment of silence for the victims of 9/11. -Photo by David Greene

By David Greene 

Bronx Voice 

September 11, 2024 


BRONX - At police precincts throughout the Bronx, residents and cops came out to provide a moment of silence to honor those killed on 9/11.



Nearly two dozen police officers joined members of the 49th Precinct Clergy Council gathered outside the Eastchester Road station house, marking the 23rd anniversary of the September 11th attacks. 



The commanding officer read off the names of the officers killed during the terror attack. He also read the names of the officers who died from 9/11 related illnesses over the past 23 years.




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