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DETECTIVES HAVE arrested an Upper West Side man they say shot and killed a 23-year-old man during a drug deal gone bad, officials said Saturday.
Divine Fredericks was captured in Georgia after he was busted for an unrelated crime there. He was being sought for shooting Tyreek Simmons, 23, during a Bronx drug deal about 4:20 p.m. on July 1.
Fredericks, who lives in the Douglass Houses, was sitting in the back of an SUV on Commonwealth Ave. in Soundview when authorities say he shot Simmons in the back of the head.
He then allegedly shot a second man, 24, sitting in the passenger seat, in the mouth before getting out of the SUV and running off.
Medics rushed both victims to Jacobi Medical Center, where Simmons died about a week later.
Cops charged Fredericks with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, weapons possession and assault.
His arraignment was pending Saturday. SOMEONE CALL 911 — these first responders are smoking hot!
The FDNY has doubled down on its Calendar of Heroes for 2018 with two separate offerings — one with men and one with women.
Looking stunning in a skintight black top and bunker gear, Bronx EMT Shawn MitchellAmato, 29, is gracing the cover of the women’s calendar.
“I’m a little nervous,” the excited first responder said. “I am not a model by any means. I’m still accepting that all of this is happening. But being able to be the face for female first responders is an honor.”
Mitchell-Amato’s coworkers encouraged the 11-year FDNY veteran to audition for the calendar. She took a few snaps at a tryout by the FDNY Museum in lower Manhattan back in November — a day after returning home from her honeymoon.
A few weeks later, she got the great news — she was not only in the calendar, but will be Miss July.
Oh, and she was also going to be on the cover.
“Being picked was an experience in itself, then to find out that I was on the cover was beyond any of my expectations,” she said. “I’m still taking it all in.”
The photo shoot came right on time, she said. Today, Mitchell-Amato is six months pregnant as she and her husband, an NYPD detective, expect their first child, a boy.
“People are looking at my photo and looking at me now,” she joked. “I’m getting a lot of comments about my little photo, but everyone has been so supportive.”
The FDNY began enrolling women in its hardbody calendar last year. The 2017 Calendar of Heroes was reversible, with men on one side and women on the other. This is the first time women firefighters and EMTs will have their own calendar.
Mitchell-Amato hopes the calendar will encourage young girls to join the FDNY.
“I want young girls to look at it and say I can do the same job a man can do and still be soft and sexy,” she said.
To Firefighter Louis Holmes of Engine 10 in lower Manhattan, who is the men’s calendar’s cover and Mr. January, being in the calendar is a matter of house pride.
“We had a couple of guys at my house who had been in the calendar over the years,” said the 31-year-old Holmes, who served in the Coast Guard and a federal prison guard before joining the FDNY in 2015.
The smoke-eating pinup, who works out five days a week, celebrated the end of his probation with the department with a press tour as the Calendar of Heroes cover.
“For me, I wanted to bring that tradition back to my house,” he said. “When they said I was on the cover it really blew my mind. It’s a huge privilege. I couldn’t ask for more.”
The calendars go on sale Sept. 8. You can pre-order them at www.FDNYshop.com.
All proceeds will go to the FDNY Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that promotes fire safety education FDNY.