The Daily News has more on the "BB gun thug terrorizing" the area near Avenue D and 3rd Street. According to the story at least 8 people have been hit and several car windows have been blown out. Police, who suspect the shooter is stationed in an upper floor of the Lilian Wald Houses, have stepped up patrols:
One construction worker said he was shot on Friday – and doctors later found a pair of pellets lodged next to his skull. "I put my hand up there and felt the blood," said Edward Gilyard, 49, who was standing at his job site when he felt a sharp pain on his right temple."I figured the only thing it could be was some sort of shot," said Gilyard, of Flatbush, Brooklyn. "All of a sudden, I had a little hole in my head." Gilyard,
who saw the rear window of a taxi get shattered minutes after he was
shot, returned to work yesterday, but said he was staying behind a tree
when he had to venture outside the walled-off work site… Edwin Rivera, 47, was hit twice on Thursday, each time as he stood on the corner of E. Third St. chatting with friends, he said. "I
was thinking something had shot me then I saw I was bleeding," said
Rivera, who displayed the large red welt left by a pellet on his left
bicep.
Family and friends on the LES are in mourning for 20-year old Christopher Gutierrez. He was stabbed and killed yesterday outside the main Post Office in Midtown. Gutierrez grew up in the Jacob Riis Houses. More from the Daily News on the search for the suspect:
Detectives released photos that they say show the killer walking along Eighth Ave. moments before the savage stabbing. He is described as a 5-foot-10 African-American, between 25 and 35
years old, weighing about 160 pounds. He was wearing a black T-shirt
and blue jeans and was carrying a camouflage backpack, police said.
Photo of suspect in Midtown shooting. If you have information about this crime, call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
The Tenement Museum answers the question: when was Orchard Street paved.
The LES's favorite cranky cook Kenny Shopsin gets some more attention (he hates that, you know) from Serious Eats.
