NO ANSWERS ... NO CHARGES Kin of man killed by rookie cop still in dark
A 22-year-old man was stabbed to death early Thursday inside his fire-damaged Queens home — and detectives are trying to track down his brother for questioning, police said.
The victim was stabbed multiple times in the upper body inside a boarded up home on 208th St. near 100th Ave. in Queens Village about 4:45 a.m.
Witnesses told police they saw the victim’s brother running from the home after the stabbing but police said it was too early to say if he is a suspect.
The stepmother of a Long Island man authorities say was shot to death by his best friend — an off-duty NYPD rookie cop — was still waiting Thursday for answers in the bizarre slaying.
Officer Errick Allen, 26, was taken into custody in the Tuesday night shooting of Christopher James Curro, a childhood friend of the man who allegedly shot him five times after a roadside argument escalated to bloodshed.
“I haven’t heard from his family,” the stepmom told the Daily News. “We haven’t heard from cops. I think they’re keeping everything (quiet) until they know all the answers.”
The investigation into the deadly incident was still ongoing and no charges have been brought, Nassau County police said Thursday without providing any additional details.
Allen, assigned to the 109th Precinct in Queens, was taken into custody after fleeing and then returning to the scene of the slaying in suburban Farmingdale. He was suspended by the NYPD for 30 days without pay as the investigation continues.
“You have one kid who’s not talking, and another who can’t,” said the stepmom, referring to the shooter and the slain victim. “So they don’t want to speculate.”
The stepmother on Wednesday described the killing as “an execution,” saying she was told that Curro was shot twice in the head, twice in the neck and once in the shoulder during the lethal altercation. She recounted reaching out to Allen’s mother on Tuesday night with a phone call that remains unreturned.
Curro, 25, was arguing with his best friend Allen when the cop allegedly pulled a gun and opened fire before bolting from the scene and leaving the mortally wounded man bleeding in the street, sources said.
He came back a short time later with his father and was quickly taken into custody by Nassau County homicide detectives summoned to the scene after a passing driver spotted Curro’s body.
The two were friends since childhood, sleeping at each other’s homes before both graduated from Farmingdale High School. Curro’s father had just lost his mother to COVID-19 before the family was rocked by the new tragedy, according to Curro’s stepmom.
City police sources had indicated the shooting occurred when Allen tried to break up an escalating fight between his friend and a third man, though Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder described the slaying as “an altercation between two gentlemen.”
An eyewitness said cops were on the scene when Allen returned, and investigators were seen grilling the alleged shooter as he sat on a curb near the crime scene. Allen lives with his dad a short distance from the spot where the fatal shooting occurred.