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For the last several months, assailant Peter Zisopoulos has been cooling his heels in an upstate mental institution after a judge deemed him unfit to participate in his own defense for Russo's murder on Sept. 29, Queens prosecutors confirmed.
A portion of Railroad Street near the Huntington Community First Aid Squad where Capt. Alison Russo was a longtime volunteer, was renamed in her honor. Russo died last year after a stabbing near her Queens EMS station.
A Huntington Station street was renamed for New York City Fire Department EMS Capt. Alison Russo-Elling, of Huntington, who was killed in a random attack while on duty in Queens last fall.
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Queens prosecutors charged him with murder and criminal weapon possession for his unprovoked Sept. 29 attack.
Capt. Alison Russo-Elling’s daughter, Danielle Fuoco, urged mourners not to hang onto hatred for the person who attacked her mother in Astoria, Queens.