Entries from Gothamist tagged with 'springfieldgardens'
August 13, 2008
The home of an acting Supreme Court Justice currently hearing domestic violence cases was hit by gunfire early yesterday morning. Bullets hit the dining room wall and an upstairs bedroom wall at Justice Fernando Camacho's Springfield Gardens house. He and his family were in Montauk at the time of the shooting; they actually sold the house but were awaiting bank approval of the buyers. The police are investigating whether the gunfire was meant for the......
Continue Reading "Judge's Home in Queens Shot Up"July 10, 2008
The police are investigating a sex attack reported by a 16-year-old. The girl was grabbed on her way to school, threatened with a box cutter and assaulted behind an abandoned church, and police are investigating the possibility the attacker may be the same as the one in a series of earlier assaults. And WNBC reports there are two more reports of attacks--another in Springfield Gardens and the other in South Ozone Park.......
Continue Reading "Multiple Sexual Attacks Reported in Queens"January 5, 2008
Police arrested a suspect in the shooting of 11-year-old Tyshaun Falconer as he stood in the doorway of his parents' home in Springfield Gardens, Queens. The suspect is identified as 19-year-old Michael Peterson of Elmont, Long Island. Peterson allegedly went to the Falconer home and when Tyshaun answered the door asked for his older brother Tony. When the younger brother answered that he was not home, Peterson is accused of shooting him once in the......
Continue Reading "Suspect in Doorway Shooting of 11-Year-Old Arrested"January 1, 2008
It was an ordinary Sunday night in Springfield Gardens, Queens, but it turned violent when an 11-year-old boy was shot after answering the door. The father the victim, Tyshaun Falconer, says his son told him, "Daddy, I think I got shot." Tyshaun, a student at I.S 59, had told the person at the door that his older brother, Tony Falconer Jr., was not at home right before the hooded man shot him in the chest.......
Continue Reading "Queens Shooting Victim: "Daddy, I Think I Got Shot""December 31, 2007
What kind of world do we live in when an 11-year-old boy gets shot in the chest while answering the front door? Tyshaun Falconer is in critical condition after a gunman fired at him on 224th Street in Springfield Gardens, Queens. The dog barked, indicating someone was at the door, around 8:30PM and Tyshaun answered it (his parents were also at home at the time). The gunman had asked to see Tyshaun's 16-year-old brother Tony,......
Continue Reading "11-Year-Old Shot While Answering the Door"June 13, 2007
The police continued to look for the robbers who shot a Queens bodega owner in the face on Monday night. Bolivar Cruz, a Dominican immigrant, is still on life support; the Post reports that two of his seven daughters were working in store at the time and that Cruz tried to protect them. According to Police Commissioner Kelly, Cruz did take out a gun (unlicensed) but did not get a chance to fire it. It's......
Continue Reading "Shot Bodega Owner on Life Support"April 14, 2004
The once proud St. John's basketball program named Queens-native Norm Roberts to be their new head coach. Roberts, who played college ball at Queens College, went to Springfield Gardens High School, where he played with former-Knick Anthony Mason. The real question is if he can actually get some talent onto the team. It certainly looks like he will try:"It pains me to see guys from New York City wearing other uniforms. It pains me to......
Continue Reading "St. John's Names New Coach"
