Susp gives up in killing
A MAN WANTED in the stray-bullet killing of a young Brooklyn mom surrendered to police, NYPD officials said Thursday.
Fred Coleman, 28, and another man were wanted for the Nov. 30 killing of Salaya Figueroa on Loring Ave. outside the Pink Houses in East New York.
Figueroa was struck in the buttocks as she and her boyfriend ran for cover at about 12:30 a.m.
“She was an unintended victim in this. They were aiming for someone else,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said Monday, when he identified Coleman SKELETAL remains found inside a Canarsie, Brooklyn home are believed to be those of an elderly woman who lived there — and police are investigating the possibility her death went unreported so relatives could collect her Social Security checks, police sources said Thursday.
The bones were found Wednesday by a contractor hired by the owner of a private home on Skidmore Lane . and another man, Tyrell Rozzell, as the alleged shooters. Police are still seeking Rozzell.
Police sources said Coleman reached out to a community leader in East New York, who brokered his surrender. The community leader wished to remain anonymous.
Maddrey announced Coleman’s arrest on the NYPD Brooklyn North Twitter page Wednesday night.
Cops charged Coleman with murder and criminal use of a firearm.
He was remanded at his arraignment Thursday.
The man called police, who learned the tenant was a dementia-afflicted woman who would be 93 years old if still alive. The woman and her son moved in three years ago, sources said, but stopped paying rent a year ago.
Detectives, who do not believe the dead woman was murdered, are trying to see if the woman’s $2,400 monthly Social Security stipend was cashed after she died, sources said. A CREEP KISSED and attacked, a 34-year-old woman he followed into a Chinatown train station, officials said Thursday.
Cops released surveillance images of the suspect (inset) from the Nov. 19 attack at the Canal St. J train station in the hopes that someone recognizes him.
The victim, a Brooklyn woman, told cops the man followed her, pinned her against the turnstile, kissed her and then threw her to the ground. He then kicked her in the stomach and back and ran off, cops said.