According to a report from the New York Police (NYPD) on Sunday night, a 25-year-old Achilles Baskin was shot near the corner of Bathgate Ave. and E. 183rd St. in Belmont. This would be another of the crimes committed on the night of Saturday February 25 to Sunday February 26 where several violent crimes were recorded.
According to the police version when the doctors arrived, Baskin was unconscious with a gunshot wound to the head. After that he was transferred to Saint Barnabas Hospital where he lost his life. Hours earlier on Sheridan Avenue, near 169 E. Street, a 29-year-old man was murdered in the lobby of his building. The NYPD report the witnesses affirm that the victim as he would have had an argument with the murderer.
Authorities detailed that the suspect opened fire, hitting the victim in the head and chest, and then fled in a vehicle. That same night the authorities also reported the murder of a woman in Queens, after receiving multiple stab wounds from her son. By the time authorities arrived at the scene, Dennis Cho, the victim’s 20-year-old son, 59-year-old Hyun Sook Cho, was captured.
In that sense, they reported on Sunday afternoon that a couple was shot in Rockaway Beach while they were outside a party, in addition to two men being stabbed in different locations in Brooklyn and a 15-year-old teenager was shot in the Bronx.