A career criminal with 19 previous arrests and three convictions for assault has become the last person of new Yorkrises crime wave after he was accused of killing an innocent mother of four, shot while walking his dog to a shop window in Brooklyn.
Officers followed Namel Colon, 36, at a Chinese restaurant in Queens after the suspect escaped capture for nearly two months after the January 2 shooting at the Salim Smoke Shop in Bedford-Stuyvesant, which left a 36-year-old dog Jennifer Inoa. and her annual pet. pit bull dead.
Colon, who lives on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, according to public records, was later handcuffed and taken to the 79th district of the neighborhood, where he is accused of murder and criminal possession of weapons, police said.
It is unclear whether Colon was on bail, parole or parole at the time of the attack, and it is not known how he escaped investigators for seven weeks after the shooting.
But he had previously been released on parole after being jailed three times for assault as New York State faces questions about his unsecured policy, which critics warn flooded the streets with dangerous criminals, many of them then commit a repeat offense.
New York cops have arrested career criminal Namel Colon, pictured in security footage at the scene on Tuesday in connection with the incident. Records show Colon a serial criminal with 19 previous arrests with 11 felony counts, including three for which he served a sentence and was released on parole or parole.
Jennifer Inoa, 36, a mother of four, was shot dead by a suspect in a Brooklyn deli last month when she opened fire on another customer at the store
Her one-year-old pit bull Blue was also killed during the January 2 attack
Records show that Colon is a serial offender with 19 previous arrests with 11 felony counts, including three for which he served a sentence and was released on parole or parole.
Conditional release refers to when a prisoner is released early and has similar responsibilities as parole.
Inoa, a mother of four who lived two blocks from the grocery store where she was shot, was walking her dog Blue when she was killed on the night of Jan. 2, her 46-year-old friend Carlton Bush said after the incident..
– I was angry. I’ve been doing a lot of this. “I lost my wife and my dog,” Bush said Daily News Tuesday, after the arrest. “He was my best friend. We had a family and needless to say, [the arrest] is a bit anticlimactic. ‘
Bush told the paper that Colon “will have to think about his own answers” about his alleged role in the assassination. – And fortunately he lives at least with his answers.
“She had children,” he continued. “She had people who loved and cared for her and everything, and now they took her life.
“That will not be punishable.”
The footage shows Inoa and her dog in the store just before the shooting, while a man, although the intended target, seen in the lower right corner of the image, watches eating a bag of chips.
The suspect started firing before entering the store. Pictured here are Ynoa and the other man, who was not injured, refused to cooperate with police when questioned, reacted to the hail of gunfire
Footage from outside the store shows a man believed to be Colon waving a gun and opening fire as he storms the Bed-Stuy store.
Bush said Inoa’s children are now with their aunt.
Cops say Ynoa was probably not the shooter’s target after analyzing surveillance footage from a security camera in the store, saying another man in the store at the time was probably the shooter’s intended target, cops said.
The suspect, believed to be Colon, can be clearly seen in security footage, police said, adding that the shooter was also recorded arriving in front of a red four-door sedan and crossing the street calmly before open fire.
Pictured is the Salim Smoke Shop in Bedford-Stuyvesant shortly after the shooting, where no one else, including Colon’s target, who refused to speak to police, was injured.
Inoa was shot in the head and transported to a nearby hospital in Brooklyn, where she was pronounced dead. Her dog died on the spot, police said.
Camera footage shows a man believed to be Colon jumping into the car and driving away.
No one else was struck by the hail of indiscriminate gunfire, including store employees and the suspect’s alleged target.
It is unclear whether Colon was on bail, parole or parole at the time of the attack, and it is not known how he escaped investigators within seven weeks of the shooting.
After the attack, the man, believed to be Colon’s sign, who fled the scene after the attack and has not yet been identified by police, was taken away by police for questioning, during which he refused to cooperate with the staff and called a lawyer. said the cops.
Colon’s criminal record shows that he has had 19 previous arrests with 11 crimes, including burglary, robbery and assault.
Ynoa is the last person to fall victim to the growing criminal wave in New York, which has seen a nearly 50% jump in criminal incidents in the city this year compared to the same period in 2021.
Less than two weeks ago, 35-year-old Asian creative advertiser Christina Yuna Lee was stabbed to death by a homeless serial criminal who followed her home to her apartment in Chinatown after being released on bail.
Yuna was found by cops in her apartment with several stab wounds in the blood-soaked tub.
Christina Yuna Lee, 35, was stabbed to death in her New York apartment by a “homeless serial criminal” on February 13
Asamad Nash, 25, was arrested in connection with a murder in Chinatown. According to court records available from DailyMail.com, Nash has been arrested four times in the last year alone and was released on bail for allegedly killing Lee.
Asamad Nash, 25, was arrested in connection with the murder. Horrifying footage shows the man the police say slipped into the building behind Lee after she got out of a taxi.
Our homeless man was released on bail after several unsolved crimes, including an attack in September and an arrest for criminal offenses in early January. He was due to appear in court on March 3 ABC7he has been arrested at least seven times since 2015, most recently on January 6, 2022.
According to court records available from DailyMail.com, Nash has been arrested four times in the last year alone. His report included charges of assault, willful damage to property, harassment, resistance to arrest, attempted and successful escape from police officers, and ticket sales.
Chilling footage shows the killer, named Nash, following the victim Christina Yuna Lee through the corridor of her apartment building in Chinatown
Nash is said to have followed Yuna Lee after she got out of a taxi and then forgot to check to see if the door closed behind her.
Yuna was found stabbed in her bathtub and could not be saved, and Nash is also said to have been found hiding under the bed of his alleged victims.
Three of these cases remain open and he has appeared in court many times. He was due to appear before a judge again on March 9 on charges of assault, harassment and intentional damage to property.
The victim’s landlord accused him of arousing NYC DA’s Alvin Bragg policy on soft crime for murder.
“All of this could have been avoided,” Brian Chin told reporters Sunday night. “This man should never have left the street. And DA Alvin Bragg is playing politics with people’s lives and the Asian community is hurt. To have a prosecutor who has won these horrific crimes right on his doorstep. And he doesn’t even bother to show up. This is a disgrace.
Ynoa was the last to fall victim to the rising crime wave in New York, which saw a nearly 50% jump in crime in the city this year compared to the same period in 2021. Crime has risen by more than 20% while the shooting increased by 30 percent
Crime has increased by more than 20 percent, according to NYPD data, with 2,994 incidents reported this year, compared with 2,477 in 2021.
Shootings have also risen 30 percent from last year, with 174 incidents in the past seven weeks. For the same period last year there were 133 shootings.
Murders have also risen slightly, with New York City police up 3.8 percent from 2021.
Meanwhile, rape and robbery have risen by 42 and 32 percent, respectively.
A recent report released earlier this month by the NYPD found that almost every police station in the new York has seen spikes crime this year – including five in which the percentage has doubled, according to new data from the New York Police Department.
Queens was particularly hard hit by the influx of incidents, with an almost 150% increase in overall crime.