The case of the horrific fatal car crash that killed husband-to-be Kirk Walker, and his cousin, Rob McLaurin, on the Henry Hudson Parkway on August 24, 2024, reached its criminal resolution with the recent announcement that Jimmy Connors, 18, pleaded guilty to two counts of Manslaughter in the Second Degree and two counts of Leaving the Scene of an Incident Without Reporting.
Alejandro Piedra, 31, pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing 38-year-old Clemson Cockfield and injuring two others in the East Village in a wild June 2024 melee, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. recently announced. According to a contemporary Straus News report, “the south side of East 14th Street between 1st Avenue and Avenue A is a known trouble spot“ that locals had dubbed the “thieves’ market.”
Manhattan’s properly very serious District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr., isn’t a man for irony, at least not publicly, but the recent announcement that Frederick Green, 20, had been indicted as the shooter of Jets cornerback Kris Boyd surely raised some eyebrows among NFL gridiron fans generally, and long suffering members of “Gang Green Nation” specifically.
– Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. announced that Alejandro Piedra, 31, pleaded guilty Thursday to murder, attempted murder, and assault charges in connection with a violent 2024 stabbing rampage in the East Village that left one man dead and two others injured. Piedra is expected to be sentenced on April 20 to 18 years to life in state prison.
A June 2024 stabbing spree that shocked neighbors and reignited calls for a safer 14th Street/First Avenue corridor moved closer to its legal conclusion this week.
