An African-American man in his late 40s was shot point blank in the head in the lobby of an apartment building on the corner of Empire Blvd. and Nostrand Ave. He died on the spot.
Man Shot Dead in Lobby of Apartment Building
An African-American man in his late 40s was shot point blank in the head in the lobby of an apartment building on the corner of Empire Blvd. and Nostrand Ave. He died on the spot.
The brazen killing happened merely one block away from the headquarters of the 71st precinct, and officers responded in very large numbers for the investigation.
The body was not removed from the crime scene since he was declared dead and must await the coroner’s investigation. Grieving Relatives of the victim were also present, and voiced anger that such a thing could take place.
The building is owned by Crown Heights community member Dovi Sperlin, but none of the 77 apartment units are occupied by Jews. The building did not have any surveillance cameras.
rl
what is going on in this city???? I know we all know its bad here, but the last 2 weeks is worse than Iraq!!
dovid
owner should be held responsible for not putting up a camera
big deal
This happens every day between blacks, where are the protest where is al and all the others? they are all racist they dont care about the lives of blacks
Yitzchok
Why is it important to print the name of the landlord?
Chos V.
Reb Sperlin, please install those cameras… It could have been one of our people ch V.
ignorant people make me mad
#3 do you own any property? the only person responsible is the person who shot that man. lets blame everyone except who’s responsible shall we? keep your mouth closed if you have nothing constructive to say.
78
Recently crime has been escalating in proximity of the 71st precinct, as if criminals are no longer scared of the cops.
zalm
Let them kill each other
YV
It WAS one of “our people,” Chos. ALL people are our people.
what in the world?
This is insane! I am scared to walk down the street!
#8
You can’t be a chossid. Chossidim do not wish for people to kill each other. You can’t be an adult. Adults do not wish for people to kill each other. Since apparently you are a nonreligious child, I do hope that when you grow up and maybe daven, you will realize that your comment was gross and ignorant. Then you can look back and appreciate how much you have matured.
To #3
I do not understand your comment. Blacks are racist and don’t care about blacks?
Moish
Why is it important who the landlord is?
M Wilhelm
Please take the name of the landlord off, it unnecessary that people know Dovie Sperlin’s Bushiness info, And besides he had nothing to do with it.
Thank You.
Moti
Why do you right that it’s not occupied by Jews sperlin has more Jews in his building than any other landlord in crown height besides rabbi Fischer its on no strand and no Jew wants to live here yossi popack it’s time you start putting Jews in your buildings I know your a big bal tzedaka but Kingston and lefferts is prime location nd you house 180 black family’s in that building alone
Just me
stupid comment let them kill themselves? You are a first class moron.
My best friends are black – many are better than some of you guys.
gee just grow up already.
C.H. resident
it is very important to post the landlord because he has so many buildings full of Blacks when there is such a shortage of apartments in Crown heights and yes our Rebbe did speak about building up the Shechunah is that how you do it by having buildings full…..
Me
To 17. You a real moron the building is on Nostrand and empire do you wanna live there he also has buildings in Brownsville do you wanna live there sperlins buildings in crown heights like Easterprkwy like president and Troy like carroll and ny are mostly yidden and every time a goy moves out he does the right thing so think before you talk
Loser community
We as a community are a bunch of morons. How is it that Fisher made off with all these community owned buildings? the Sperlin family got 37 buildings from the government through their very own Chadida’s community council, and the rest of us break our backs the pay the rent to these filthy rich thieves????
Shame on us all for not seeing the crooks for who they are.
This Sperlin/Wilhelm family control the CHJCC for their own benefit and continue to loot the communal assets.
They are so self absorbed that they wouldn’t even give a nickel back to any community cause.
Let’s not forget the buildings that friedfertig and Lang Took while they were in charge of CHJCC
C.H. resident
to #18 sorry to inform you in case you are not aware of what goes on in Crown heights today empire and nostrand is not so far out.
It is also not true that he put’s in a Yid every time someone moves out and yes i know this as a fact.
Ad lubavitchers we genraly try to talk and act like Mentschen Also let’s remember we are Chabad chassidim and our mind is supposed control our hearts…. before we have such outbursts of name calling
Shame on Crownheights.info
Apparently, people who post ridiculous comments are just looking for a fight. Besides the point that comments such as #3, and #8 (and more)should not be allowed to be posted. Crownheights.info, you do realize that many people look at your website, not just the Jewish population of crown heights, and when they read such horrible comments, it makes it seam like we are idiots. Now don’t start bashing on how we shouldnt care what people think of us, because we always learn how we should talk, walk, dress respectively. Therefore, you could be the most “Eidel” “Tznius” “Learned” “Chassidish” girl/boy, but as soon as you write just hateful comments, it all goes out the window.
#21 correction
* I do realize that I wrote seem as SEAM, it was a mistake.
I hate crown heights!!!
I am so sick and tired of crown heights. Its dirty. there are rats and roaches everywhere. gun shots, drug deals, muggings, and stabbings are becoming an everyday occurance. Plus people in crown heights pride themselves on bring people closer to judaism yet are very judgemental and end up doing the opposite. Im SOOOO glad im moving out and im going to DISCOURAGE many other frum people to move to crown heights
Do you need help packing #23?
I am very happy for you to be moving then
Just. Me
Everyone have there own opinion but let’s just pray that who ever committed this crime is caught no one deserves to be killed only God can take our lives away.
Fed Up
Another victim of gun control in our “gun free city”.
E Rodriguez
This info is incorrect. The person’s name is Shammell Smith and Shamell was 34 years old, father of four children ages 18, 16, 15 and 10.
Please in the future try to verify your facts before printing. Thank you.