Suspect Hospitalized After Possible Carjacking Leads To Police-Involved Shooting In Queens
CBS New York 1/25/2021 Syndicated Local – CBS New York
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) A suspected carjacking led to a police-involved shooting late Sunday night in Queens.
Shots were fired after officers tracked down the vehicle and confronted two men inside.
Police said the victim left his car running while he went inside a restaurant to grab food. When he came out, it was gone.
Around 9:30 p.m., the man called 911 saying he was unharmed but his car had been stolen.
“Responding officers were met by a male victim, who informed the officers that he left his keys inside of his vehicle and two men fled the location with his vehicle,” NYPD Chief of Patrol Juanita Holmes told reporters overnight.
COVID-19 came early for Catherine Busa, and it never really left.
The 54-year-old New York City school secretary didn’t have any underlying health problems when she caught the coronavirus in March, and she recovered at her Queens home.
But some symptoms lingered: fatigue she never experienced during years of rising at 5 a.m. for work; pain, especially in her hands and wrists; an altered sense of taste and smell that made food unappealing; and a welling depression. After eights months of suffering, she made her way to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center to a clinic specifically for post-COVID-19 care.
“I felt myself in kind of a hole, and I couldn’t look on the bright side,” Busa said. She did not feel helped by visits to other doctors. But it was different at the clinic.
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“With today’s guilty plea, Tuccio has been convicted of an offense arising from his efforts to extort a local businessman by brazenly chasing him through the streets and then setting his car ablaze,” Acting Brooklyn U.S. Attorney DuCharme said last week.
By Forum Staff
Last week, in federal court in Brooklyn, Gambino Organized Crime Family Associate Peter Tuccio, 27, pleaded guilty to using fire to commit the felony crime of extortion, according to federal prosecutors.
When sentenced, Tuccio faces a mandatory sentence of 10 years’ imprisonment, as well as forfeiture, restitution and a fine of up to $250,000.
According to prosecutors, in 2015, a businessman who had been extorted by a captain in the Gambino