Suspected Murder On Joralemon Street

By on June 7, 2016 5:46 am in brooklyn bridge park, crime

Multiple news outlets are reporting that at around 9:30 Monday night, police responded to a call on Joralemon Street near Brooklyn Bridge Park, where they found a 23-year-old woman unconscious. She was pronounced dead at the scene of a gunshot to the head.

From NBC4:

Police said they’re not sure if a robbery led up to the shooting or if it was random, but they do believe it’s a murder.

More info will be posted as it becomes available.

UPDATED: According to the NY Post, the crime last night seems to be an episode of domestic violence.

The victim’s mother, Pauline Marks, said her daughter was on her way home from her job at a restaurant located inside the park called Fornino when her daughter was killed.

She said she believe’s [sic] the gunman to be an ex-boyfriend who had been menacing her for the past few weeks and whom she had filed an order of protection against, but police weren’t immediately able to confirm that.

UPDATED: PIX 11 is reporting that Lamont Wright, 53, described as a multiple previous offender and a registered sex offender, as well as being the victim’s ex-boyfriend, is in police custody and is being questioned.

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  • Michael

    Except if you feel that the current state of the park has contribute to the drastic increase in petty (and now not so petty) crime in the immediate area. Someone was murdered, there have been shots fired at pier 2, there have been muggings, fights, etc. Not petty just a part of a larger conversation.

  • ColumbiaHeightster

    I respect your opinion, but agree to disagree.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Boom! Like a pro.

  • Michael

    OK, but do consider the growing crime stats.

  • Edwin

    If nimby-ism means you don’t want murders to occur in your “backyard”, then more nimby-ism is what our neighborhood needs. ChaseGilbert is right on the money.

  • redlola

    Overall, I think BK Heights is changing in ways that people who chose to live here did not intend or foresee and ppl are wrestling with the implications as those changes continue to unfold. The sensitivity to this incident is part of that and i will be the first to admit that I was reactive in attaching it to the park without knowing all the details. I think it also doesn’t help when people who don’t want to embrace negative change are immediately labeled racist and NIMBY. I think I can speak for most when I say most regular people don’t want crime in their backyard. It is not something to celebrate or be cavalier about. For those of us less used to it, it is a shock to the system to envision it becoming something routine. Does that make us spoiled or whatever? I guess everyone will answer that differently but to me, that just makes us ppl who chose to be in this community for the relative peace and safety that it offered. There is nothing wrong with feeling protective over that. I don’t think BK heights has the same racial issues as other areas. I think this neighborhood is pretty welcoming to all who are respectful of their surroundings. When did it become too much to ask people to realize that joralemon is not a highway but a small residential street so perhaps some consideration to residents vis-a-vis noise levels is warranted. why is it too much to ask ppl to just play ball on the bball courts and not this other bullshit? why is it too much to think it’s not ok when members of the community are assaulted, have their stores ransacked, or their phones stolen? None of that makes anyone racist because all these same things would not be ok regardless of the race of the perpetrators. Like I have said before, giving perpetrators a pass because of race is actual racism because it says that a certain group of individuals are not capable of acting in a manner that is generally considered socially appropriate and civil.

  • CHASESGILBERT

    Lol.

  • evo34

    By congestion, you mean the 2 cars that pass every 5 minutes?

  • Sharon T

    Joralemon is poorly lit and an unfortunate number of residents are still in denial of how much their security has been stolen by the park. Any bad guy sees the ineffective community response to gangs of thugs now roaming wherever they want. They see the critics of DI Centa. They see an ideal low light off any major walkway…and they make their move. A lot of peeps are smart. As long as we transmit an ideal message of weakness and lack of smart response to the cancer in our midst, the crime and violence will get worse. How many of us were at the meeting this morning? How many of us called media when the blogs were attacking Centa & the 84? See? Send the wrong message and see what you get? The hardest thing for us to look at is OUR behavior in a situation like this.

  • evo34

    Build a wall around BH…and make Mexico pay for it.

  • CHASESGILBERT

    Better idea… Make BPP take responsibility for the crime it propagates. Best idea… Don’t allow tiny residential streets in a historic district to be used as a major pedestrian thruway.

  • A Tree

    The solution is teaching young men they aren’t entitled to women.

  • AbeLincoln

    It wasn’t just a matter of time. This particular incident could have happened anywhere. It only happened in the park because thats where the woman worked. That is all. So please don’t attribute this to problems related to the park. My condolences to the family.

  • Boerum Bill

    She wasn’t found near Joralemon. She was at the Atlantic Ave. entrance, which is in SoJo.

  • KXrVrii1

    I assumed he meant the sidewalk congestion.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    “Make BPP take responsibility for the crime it propagates.”

    You’re not referring to this particular crime, are you? Because we’ve already established that this was unconnected to the park or to Joralemon being “used as a major pedestrian thruway.”

  • CHASESGILBERT

    No, I’m now referring to general security issues in the park / en route to and from the park.

  • StudioBrooklyn

    Oh okay. I kinda echo the sentiment that that conversation belongs on a different thread.

  • CHASESGILBERT

    Gotcha. Yeah, I began commenting here before I learned it was likely a domestic violence issue.

  • Banet

    Agreed. This could have happened on State Street if she worked at Iris Cafe. Or Cranberry if she worked at Jack the Horse. Or really just about anywhere between wherever she happened to work and wherever she happened to be going.

  • Karl Junkersfeld

    I was referring to the narrow sidewalks with beautiful trees and the volume of people that are coming and going to the park. Add to this the vending trucks that are at the bottom of the hill and you have a very unpleasant experience walking on this particular street during the summer.

  • redlola

    evo, you clearly seem to have an agenda to minimize and make fun of what many in this community feel are legit concerns. joralemon street is a hot mess in the summer and if lived on that block, i would be a very angry person. i live by clark and the crowds there are enough for me. the comfort of the people who live in the community is not subordinate to those come to the community. we need to all respect each other and so far, the community has been disrespected by certain park visitors. not funny or acceptable.

  • TeddyNYC

    This tragic occurrence has nothing to do with other issues at the park. It has everything to do with the scourge of domestic violence, which is mostly directed towards women. However, this subhuman apparently felt the park was a good place to ambush her so the security of the place will need to be reevaluated at the very least (better lighting and more cops) to prevent others from using it for random attacks.

  • HereToStay

    It doesn’t have anything to do with lack of security???????

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton

    Hu? Domestic violence is not just men stalking women. I had a Psycho ex-girlfriend stalking me. When I finally got my restraining order against her, the DA told me pointblank “we find a lot of bodies with these in their pocket”…

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlsiLOnWCoI Arch Stanton

    No it doesn’t

  • ColumbiaHeightster

    I’m sure that was comforting (sarcasm heavily intended).

  • StudioBrooklyn

    One could argue that any time anyone is murdered it is due to a lack of security, and if you consider that between anyone’s workplace and their next destination there is usually some area where “security” may not be abundant, that argument doesn’t really hold up in this case.

  • Banet

    No, it doesn’t. How much security is there on State Street between Columbia Place and Hicks at 9pm? Or mid-block on Monroe? Or on the Promenade?

    Whoever did this was going to do it no matter what.

    With the recent increase in security the park likely has more cops per square mile than any major park in NYC.

  • Teresa

    The initial reports this morning said that it was Joralemon Street.

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