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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Man Stabbed Outside Bar

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Man Stabbed Outside Bar: Man Stabbed Outside Bar BRONX, NEW YORK, JUNE 11- Police were looking for two individuals wanted in connection with an early morning knife a...

Man Stabbed Outside Bar

Man Stabbed Outside Bar

BRONX, NEW YORK, JUNE 11- Police were looking for two individuals wanted in connection with an early morning knife attack today at Aqueduct Avenue West and West Kingsbridge Road in the University Heights section. Police say the 42-year-old victim was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital and is expected to survive. Detectives were looking for two male Hispanics who possibly fled in a grey Toyota Camry. 

Photo by David Greene

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Morrisania News: Bay Plaza

Morrisania News: Bay Plaza: New Mall Under Way On June 6, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. toured the forthcoming "Mall at Bay Plaza" near Co-op...

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Sadness for Father's Day

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Sadness for Father's Day: Sadness for Father's Day Shooter Gets 23 yrs for Gunning Down Father of 4 BRONX, NEW YORK, JUNE 11- District Attorney Robert T. Johns...

Sadness for Father's Day

Sadness for Father's Day
Shooter Gets 23 yrs for Gunning Down Father of 4

BRONX, NEW YORK, JUNE 11- District Attorney Robert T. Johnson announced the sentencing of Mark Laramore to a term of 23 years behind bars plus five years post release supervision for the killing of social worker and father of three Raymond Ortiz, weeks after fellow shooter, Shawn White, was sentenced to the same term for the same charge, manslaughter in the first degree.

 Laramore, who celebrated his birthday yesterday, was 17 years old at the time of the crime.

The 34-year-old Ortiz, who had a fourth child on the way, was gunned down as he took a rare night off from the two full-time jobs he was holding down to care for his family. In the wee hours of August 1, 2009, he was returning home from visiting friends in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx, when he dozed off while waiting for the BX22 bus, one he would never board.

Instead, he was approached by two armed men unbeknownst to him, White and Laramore, who, perhaps startled when the suddenly-awakened dad stood up, opened fire at close range, nearly a half-dozen .22-caliber bullets hitting their mark.

Laramore and White, along with two other friends, fled, but within days, were both turned in to police by their parents.

“Coping isn’t easy.  I have too much love in my heart to hate.  But the pain we carry is undeniable,” reads the statement by Lisa Ramos Ortiz, the victim's fiancĂ©e and mother of the son, Phoenix, who was born six months after his father’s killing. "He worked 16 hours a day up to 7 days a week to make sure our children would not need for anything, [telling me] ‘That’s what real men do,’” Ramos recalls. "He was selfless.  He was loved by his co-workers, his employers, because ‘everyone loved Raymond."

Adds the victim’s sister, Maribel Ortiz, in her statement to the court:  “There is always a song, a scent, a location that reminds me of Ray, and when it happens, for a brief moment, my heart aches and an indescribable pain takes over my whole body and soul.

"His children are the ones who continue to suffer the most. He was their hero, their protector, their teacher. Phoenix, who is an identical clone of my brother Ray, will never know how funny, energetic and great his daddy was.”

Monday, June 9, 2014

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Skating Rink Plan on Ice

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Skating Rink Plan on Ice: 100 PERCENT By Robert Press Skating Rink Plan on Ice Falling Out has Put Project on Hold BRONX, NEW YORK, JUNE 9- An illegal cr...

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Skating Rink Plan on Ice

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Skating Rink Plan on Ice: 100 PERCENT By Robert Press Skating Rink Plan on Ice Falling Out has Put Project on Hold BRONX, NEW YORK, JUNE 9- An illegal cr...