Arrest cop in beatdown of spitting susp
B’klyn man slain, 2 buses hit in rush-hour shoot
An NYPD cop was busted Tuesday over accusations he repeatedly punched a woman in the face for spitting on him after he arrested her, police sources said.
Officer Luis Marte, 38, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly clocking the woman at the 44th Precinct stationhouse in the Bronx on March 1. She had been arrested earlier in the day for attacking a fellow resident at a Bronx homeless shelter and resisting arrest, a law enforcement source said. Marte brought her to the stationhouse and put her in a holding cell. While she was in the cell, she spit on him.
He then filed paperwork claiming she spit on him and that he only punched her once. In fact, security cameras in the stationhouse captured Marte punching the woman repeatedly, sources said.
He was arraigned Tuesday in Bronx Criminal Court on charges of attempted assault, official misconduct and filing a false instrument. He was released without bail.
A 32-year-old man was shot to death on a Brooklyn streetcorner Tuesday — and stray bullets pierced the side of a school bus and a city bus with more than 30 people onboard, officials said.
The victim, identified by sources as dad and recent college grad Francisco Bonilla, was arguing with a group of men on Dumont and Pennsylvania Aves. in East New York when the killer whipped out a pistol and started blasting about 8:45 a.m., witnesses told police.
At least six shots were fired at Bonilla, cops said. One stray bullet struck a nearby school bus and another pierced the rear door of an MTA B20 bus with at least 30 people on board, authorities said. Nobody on board the buses was struck.
Bonilla was hit in the chest and stomach and rushed to Brookdale University Hospital, where he died. He lived just a few paces from where he was shot, relatives said.
“I knew the kid since he was born. He was a good guy,” Bonilla’s uncle, Juan Lopez, told the Daily News. “It’s ironic. He didn’t have any involvement, no drugs. Nothing.”
Bonilla had just graduated from college, added an aunt who showed up at the scene but was too grief-stricken to say more.
Another friend, who would only identify himself as Castro, said Bonilla had nailed down a job and was focused on taking care of his young daughter.
“I saw him two days ago. It’s crazy. Unbelievable,” Castro said. “He never got into bulls—-, no fighting, no gangbanging. None of that s—-.”
One child on the school bus was not harmed when the bullet embedded itself just above the driver’s-side door handle, sources said.
The gunman ran off and had not been caught.
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