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Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'murdered'

March 25, 2008

The Justice Department is denying federal benefits to the families of the two auxiliary police officers who were brutally killed by a marauding gunman in the West Village last year. Yevgeniy Marshalik's and Nicholas Pekearo's families each applied for $300,000 in benefits, part of the 2003 “Hometown Heroes” Congressional bill for families of first-responders killed in the line of duty. But the DOJ doesn't think they qualify, because NYC's “auxiliary police are not recognized as......

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March 23, 2008

Police arrested a former chauffeur and his cousin in the 2006 stabbing death of real estate mogul Andrew Kissel (pictured). The crime baffled Greenwich, CT police, given the long list of people who could be upset with Kissel. He had embezzled millions, including from fellow residents in his Manhattan co-op. His own father was quoted, "Andrew did bad things. He took money from a lot of people. He was killed in an extremely vengeful, angry......

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