Queens family still searching for answers 1 month after grandfather's fatal shooting
The family says the reward will help find the shooter as the NYPD has not ruled out a hate crime.
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A Queens man prayed, withdrew cash, then sunbathed. Police don't know who killed him.
Albert "Avrumie" Itzkowitz, left, poses with his son, Tzvi Yonie Itzkowitz, at a family celebration in an undated family photo. Albert “Avrumie” Itzkowitz was shot in the neck and back at Kissena Park. Five weeks later, no arrests have been made. [ more › ]
'We're desperate': Families picnic in popular NYC park as grandpa's brazen killing stays unsolved
The family of 75-year-old Albert Itzkowitz is renewing its plea for information, more than a month after he was found shot to death in a popular Queens park in the middle of the afternoon. Officials announced a new Crime Stoppers reward, and the family is matching it, bringing the total reward to $20,000 for information leading to an arrest. Itzkowitz...
Family of Slain Orthodox Jewish Man Urges Hate Crime Probe as Reward Reaches $20,000
QUEENS (VINnews) – The family of a 75-year-old Orthodox Jewish man who was fatally shot in a Queens park is asking the public for help identifying his killer and wants investigators to determine whether the slaying was motivated by antisemitism. At a news conference Thursday in Kissena Park, the NYPD and relatives of Albert “Avrumie” […]
Kin of kosher bakery owner, 75, found shot dead at NYC park demand answers in what they suspect was hate crime
Albert Itzkowitz – who also served as a rabbi at a nursing home – was mysteriously found shot in the neck and back along the shoreline of Kissena Lake just before 5 p.m. May 18, and the city medical examiner’s office has since ruled the case a homicide.
Albert Itzkowitz, a 75-year-old Jewish resident of Queensborough, was shot and killed in broad daylight on May 18 while resting by the lake in Kissena Park. Five weeks later, the killer remains at large. On June 25, several elected officials from Queensborough, along with the victim's family and Jewish community leaders, gathered at the entrance to Kissena Park to demand a swift resolution to the unsolved case...
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