Teen Stabbed to Death

1 Dead, 3 Injured During Pelham House Party

(Photo by David Greene)

By David Greene

BRONX, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 29- One teenager is dead and three others were recovering after a wild melee that began during a dispute at a house party that spilled onto the surrounding streets.

Witnesses say officers from the 49th Precinct had been called to the wild party inside a first-floor apartment at 2194

Barnes Avenue, between Pelham Parkway South and Lydig Avenue. One resident reported the party quieted down after the 1:30 a.m. visit by officers on Sunday, September 28, but the NYPD would be called back at just after 3 a.m. when the violence erupted.

Cops arrived and quickly discovered the four wounded teens. Police say three teens were stabbed to the chest and a fourth was stabbed in the shoulder.

Police had at least three separate crime scenes set up in the area, as officers guarded discarded clothing and trails of blood. 

The 14-year-old male stabbed in the chest had fled the building with dozens of other teens who ran in all directions, but he collapsed in the crosswalk at Pelham Parkway South and Barnes Avenue and was rushed to nearby Jacobi Hospital, where he died.

Two 18-year-old males were also stabbed to the chest and a 17 -year-old male was stabbed in the shoulder. At least one of the three victims was listed in serious, but stable condition.

Police secured a second crime scene along Wallace Avenue, where paramedics had discovered one of victims.

Police would later identify the deceased as Justin Fallu of East 243 Street in the Wakefield section.

Kathleen Jones, a 22 year resident of the area, asked, "What are teenagers doing out a 2:30 in the morning. My son was never out at that hour."

Jones added, "Especially a block like Barnes Avenue that has been a troublesome block for this area for about 10 years, with the drug dealing and other problems."

One resident of the building who declined to be identified, recalled, "I heard the noise, but I don't know what happened. I never saw any teenagers on the first floor, it's all old people there."

One police source stated that witnesses at the party were not fully cooperating with investigators, but were busy looking at video of the suspect taken from the building's surveillance cameras.

Police say the suspect has been identified as someone who goes by the street name of "Shaq."

He is described as a black male in his late teens or early 20's. At the time of the incident he was wearing a red shirt and blue jeans.

A heavy police presence had already been in the area as a man had been killed in an unrelated incident along Pelham Parkway South near White Plains Road.

Officials say that Rony Mejia, 26, a Baychester Avenue resident was hit by a taxi at 1 a.m., when the driver pulled over to call paramedics. However, a second vehicle, a black livery cab struck Mejia and fled the scene headed westbound towards Fordham Road.

Mejia died a short time later at St. Barnabas Hospital.

No charges were filed against the first driver, but police continue to work for the apprehension of the driver of the livery taxi.

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Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Jeter sticks to the script

Bronx News (Bxnews.net): Jeter sticks to the script: Jeter Sticks to the Script, Gives Fans Another Great Baseball Memory By Rich Mancuso BRONX, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 26- The rain never came...

Jeter sticks to the script

Jeter Sticks to the Script,
Gives Fans Another Great Baseball Memory

By Rich Mancuso

BRONX, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 26- The rain never came Thursday night and Derek Jeter could not have done it better in his final game as a shortstop and active player in the Bronx for the New York Yankees. The script could not have been better when he delivered the  game winning single in a 6-5 walk-off win over the Baltimore Orioles.

You could not have wrote a better script before 48,613 fans who chatted “Jeter” the entire evening. But when have we not seen moments like this from Derek Jeter at the old and new Yankee Stadium? So in that ninth inning, and with Jeter on deck with the winning run at second, he once again played the script to perfection.

That final at bat, in a Yankees uniform in the Bronx, will be chronicled as one of those famed Yankees moments in years to come. The only blemish is the Yankees left for Boston and will conclude their disappointing season with three games at Fenway Park.

Jeter won’t be going to the postseason. That part of the script did not go to plan because the perfect finale would have been Derek Jeter, the Captain, making another spectacular play on the field or getting another game winning hit in October. He will play his final three games as a designated hitter, and not at shortstop, and that’s typical Derek Jeter wanting to give not just Yankees fans but baseball fans an opportunity to see him on the field a final time.  

“No,” said Jeter about the ninth inning dramatics that to him were unexpected. “Write what you want, put my name at the bottom of it,” he said in what was probably his last post game meeting with the media adjacent to the Yankees clubhouse .  

This was not the final day of the lovefest and farewell. Jeter will get another huge ovation from the heated and rival Red Sox fans. Because the entire baseball world has appreciated the accomplishments and how a player in New York for 20-years went about his business.

The lovefest won’t end until that final time at bat on Sunday afternoon.

And make what you want about the Jeter stories this past week. It may have been overkill and dominated the conversation.There were the critics attempting to downplay how Jeter stands as one of the all-time Yankees greats, and those who made a profit on the Jeter final week in the Bronx.

It is all a part of paying homage to a ballplayer who put on the Yankees uniform and was instrumental in being part of a championship run that may not be seen again for a long time.

And now Derek Jeter has realized that it has come to an end. All season, and more so this week, there were the constant questions about reality setting, and that the last page of the script was coming to a finale.

“It’s a weird way of emotions,” said Jeter who admitted he was choked up on the field. “I’m excited now. This whole year it’s been special. It’s almost like watching a funeral highlights and things. People are giving me well wishes like I’m going to dye. I appreciate it all.”

“Guess on the baseball side, because it’s over with,” Jeter said. Because it was not a funeral but a celebration that continued for fans outside Yankee Stadium hours after his final and dramatic hit in the Bronx.

“Part of the dream is over now,’ Jeter said. He was holding back the tears. You could tell from the tone in his voice that reality has set in, and the next time he steps on the field at Yankee Stadium he will be an Oldtimer.

And for generation of Yankees fans, those who grew up watching and admiring Derek Jeter, there dream is also over. Because the Yankees and their fans said goodbye to the last of the “Core Four.”

"Those guys are like my brothers,” Jeter said about Andy Petitte, Jorge Posada and Mariano Rivera. They were by the Yankees dugout along with Bernie Williams and the former manager, Joe Torre, an Honor Guard of Yankees as Jeter left the Yankee Stadium playing field for a final time.

Jeter said baseball is a game of adjustments and he will adapt to not getting prepared for another spring training and new season of hope for the Yankees in 2015. The fans will have to adjust as well, because not seeing Derek Jeter as an active player will last a long time.

Joe Girardi, who managed the last Jeter championship team in 2009 also has realized that the end is here.

He said about that last game winning hit, “Fitting, think about all the big hits he’s had in his career.” It will be a game winning hit that will be seen time and time again on the highlight reels ,and put in the category of great hits in New York Yankees history.

The everlasting image of Derek Jeter taking that final tour of the basepaths at Yankee Stadium and waving his cap to the crowd, as the divisional champion Orioles stood at the top of their dugout and tipped their caps in appreciation was compelling. It almost appeared that we were reading the mind of Derek Jeter, and perhaps he did not want to say goodbye after another three RBI night.

But it is reality. Derek Jeter wrote a perfect script for 20-years and it was a perfect ending Thursday night in the Bronx.

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Yanks Out of Playoffs

The Jeter Watch
Derek's Bat Retired
Yanks Out of Playoffs

By Howard Goldin

BRONX, NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 25- The penultimate day of Derek Jeter’s playing career with the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium began on a positive note. One day after being presented with the Commissioner’s Historic Achievement Award by MLB Commissioner Allen “Bud” Selig, Jeter received another rare honor.

Louisville Slugger, the iconic bat company that has served baseball players for 130 years, for the first time retired a bat model to honor a player, Derek Jeter. James Sass, Director of Professional Baseball Sales for the company said, “Derek has made over 12,500 plate appearances in his 20 MLB seasons, and every single one of them has been with a Louisville Slugger P72. With Derek’s impending retirement, we thought it was fitting to retire his bat model in recognition of his brilliant career. We are grateful for his enduring and unwavering loyalty. In honor of Derek’s tremendous career and impact, we won’t be making the P72 anymore.” The last such model bat was presented to Jeter before the game.

Unfortunately, disappointment and sadness were the emotions Jeter felt as the afternoon progressed. The overwhelming percentage of the large crowd of 46,056 at Yankee Stadium for the matinee on Wednesday rose to their feet, cheered, and chanted Jeter’s name during each of his four at bats.

This support did not lead to Jeter continuing his consecutive game hitting streak, which ended at seven. In the first, Jeter grounded out to shortstop. Two innings later, Jeter struck out swinging at a 2-2 pitch. The fifth inning concluded after the Yankee captain again grounded out to short. In the eighth, Jeter tried to hold up his swing and bounced the ball to the first sacker who tossed to the pitcher for another out.

After his final at bat, the fans remained standing and chanted “We want Jeter.” He did not come out of the dugout for a curtain call. Reporters asked if he was aware of what the fans wanted. He explained his reaction, “I’m aware of it. You can’t help but notice. The game wasn’t over. We were trying to come back.”

Jeter was kept from a final at bat as he was on deck when the last out of a 9-5 Baltimore victory was made. To make the Yankee loss even sadder for its players and fans, it eliminated the Yankees from the playoffs.

As Jeter was the designated hitter on Wednesday, the fans did not get to watch him in the field.

In a post-game interview, the body language as well the words spoken by the Yankee captain exhibited his disappointment, “It’s tough. We put a lot of work in it. We didn’t play well enough. There were stretches we played well and stretches we didn’t play well. We’re all disappointed. We should all be disappointed. I’m disappointed.”

When asked to describe the positives of this season or his plans for his final game at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night, he demurred by saying, “We just lost. We’re not going to the playoffs.”

Yankee manager Joe Girardi spoke of his feelings regarding the final Yankee Stadium game for Jeter on the following day, “I think it’s going to be special. Tomorrow is going to be the culmination of all the love he’s been shown, all the appreciation he’s been shown.”