Bloody Sunday Across New York City

By Alicia Cruz
The Black Urban Times

It seems like as the weather has warmed up, people in and around New York City have just gone murderously stark raving mad. Over the weekend, at least five senseless murders have occurred in the Bronx, Brookyln, Manhattan and Queens that left five people dead, two were teenagers.

In Queens, U.S. customs agent Maurice Gordon, affectionately known as "Big Mo," was brutally shot down in hail of bullets by an unknown gunmen that allegedly followed him and a cousin from a Long Island nightclub.

While inside the nightclub, a man or several men accosted Gordon's cousin, a 33-year-old woman visiting from his native country, Jamaica. In an attempt to dissuade the men from harassing his cousin, Gordon said something to the thugs who then left the club and waited for him outside.

To avoid trouble, the cousin and Gordon waited the dimwits out inside the club only leaving once they thought the men had left. As the two arrived at Gordon's father's Jamaica, Queens home a car pulled up and a man shot Gordon.

The customs agent who was married and the father of a 14-month-old daughter, managed to unload his own weapon before falling to the ground from a fatal gunshot to his chest. His last words to his cousin were, "Call 911! Call 911!"

Gordon had recently been assigned to work at the John F. Kennedy airport. He was well-known and loved by neighbors and friends alike.

His young widow made a tearful plea asking for the public's help in finding the men that killed her husband.

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In Washington Heights, a mother cried out for her only son, 18-year-old Mohamed Jalloh of Nelson Avenue in The Bronx. He was stabbed to death by someone wielding a machete. Police found Jalloh brutally attacked on W. 181 Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.

He later died of his injuries at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia. Relatives told police Jalloh, native of Sierre Leone, Africa, rarely left home at night, but was meeting a friend the night he was senselessly killed.

"They killed my son!" cried his mother, Idiatou Jalloh. "I had just one son."

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While Manhattan police finished up at the scene of Jalloh's murder, Brooklyn police were responding to a Fulton Street shooting in Brownsville where they found the body of Teofilo Garcia, of New Lots Avenue, with a fatal gunshot wound to his torso. The 31-year-old man died from his injury two hours later at Brookdale University Hospital.

Friends of the victim described him as a hard worker who spent his spare time mixing beats as a deejay. Friend Danielle Jackson, 21, told the New York Daily News "I was just talking to him earlier about life and now he's gone."

Approximately 15-minutes later another man was shot dead in front of an apartment building in Harlem. Police say David Moore, 23, was shot to death in East Harlem on Lexington Avenue near East 122nd Street around 1:45 a.m. He was transported to St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital where he later died.

A few hours passed before another man lost his life to violence in the Melrose-Jackson housing project at 785 Courtland Avenue in the Bronx just before 4 a.m. Police say Tamer Brown, 33, died from multiple gunshot wounds at the hands of an unknown assailant. He was pronounced dead at nearby Lincoln Hospital.

The carnage continued with the shootings of two men near 141st St. and Lenox Avenue. Police say the two men were transported to Harlem Hospital Center where they are expected to live.

The five murders all took place within four hours early Monday morning. Police have not released any information on suspects or motives in any of these crimes.

If you have any information on either of these crimes, please contact the New York City Police Department's Crime Stoppers. Your information may lead to a reward.

* Call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477)
* Text "TIP577" (plus your message) to "CRIMES" (274637)
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