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By: Ellen Cans
The year 2024 had no lack of chilling, disturbing and tragic violent crimes. Here is a list of come of the most shocking murders of 2024 which occurred in New York City.
As reported by the NY Daily News, the first on the list has to be the broad-daylight shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, on a crowded Midtown Manhattan sidewalk on Dec. 4. After a five-day interstate manhunt, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was found in an Altoona, Pa., McDonald’s with a handwritten manifesto that read, in part, “Frankly, these parasites had it coming.” Mangione, valedictorian of his Baltimore private high school, an Ivy league computer science major, was extradited to New York City on Dec. 19 and charged with first-degree murder and terrorism charges by NYS. Mangione has since been arraigned in Federal Court on charges of murder, stalking and firearm offenses. The federal charges could possibly result in the death penalty.
Somehow the alleged murderer, has garnered support amongst a mass of Americans, who share his anger towards the health insurance industry, and who told their own stories of being denied health coverage, etc. New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch responded by saying, that “any attempt to rationalize this is vile, reckless and offensive to our deeply held principles of justice.”
Another gruesome and chilling murder is that of Nadia Vitels, a 52-year-old woman found dead inside a duffel bag in the closet of a Kips Bay apartment on March 14. The city’s Medical Examiner said Vitels was killed by blunt force trauma to the head, per the NY Daily News. Prosecutors allege that she was attacked and killed by a pair of teenage squatters, who also stole her credit card and car and went on the run. The alleged killers, Halley Tejada, 19, and Kensly Alston, 18, have since been apprehended by U.S. Marshals in York, Pa. They were charged with multiple crimes, including murder, concealment of a human corpse and grand larceny.
The deadly crimes continue, with 31-year-old Buffalo State College grad Yazmeen Williams who was killed by a roommate, who dumped her body in a sleeping bag in the trash on E. 27th St. near Third Ave. on July 5. Ex-con, 55-year-old Chad Irish, who was in a wheelchair, was charged with murder, concealment of a human corpse, tampering with physical evidence and criminal possession of a weapon.
A disgruntled ex was accused of the next double murder. Edward Jacobs, 35, and his new friend Anastasia “Star” Ettienne, 33 were killed in a fire in Jamaica, Queens on Nov. 2. Aliya Fakhri, the sister of Bollywood movie star Nargis Fakhri, was arrested for the murder and arson.
Another chilling murder occurred on Sept. 8 in the Bronx. Per the NY Daily News, Bronx woman Jacklyn Timinski was killed by being struck in the head with a kettlebell by former celebrity photographer Benjamin Lozovsky, 41. After Timinski’s death, her grief-struck boyfriend, Juan Boria, went on a downward spiral of events which ending with him being fatally stabbed weeks later in a feud with a homeless man over a box to sleep in.
Another truly heartbreaking death was that of 4-year-old Jahmeik Modlin. The boy was starved to death by his parents in their Harlem apartment. Cops found plenty of food in the home, though it was shuttered and locked out of reach. Modlin’s sisters, ages 5, 6 and 7, were rescued from the home, and none of them were able to ingest solid food due to malnourishment.
