#far-rockaway

#far-rockaway

It took more than 33 years and 8 months for justice to be meted out against a Virginia man in the cold-case murder of a teenage girl in Far Rockaway that shook the borough. In the end, it took a jury in Queens Supreme Court less than three hours of deliberation on Friday, Jan. 23 before convicting 61-year-old Jerry Lewis at trial of murder in the second degree for strangling 15-year-old Nadine Slade to death in May 1992.

Queens detectives are on the hunt for the killer who shot a young man dead in the Rockaways on Tuesday night. Police said the 24-year-old man was gunned down in front of two storefronts at 289 Beach 14th St. in Far Rockaway just after 6:40 p.m. on Dec. 30. Officers from the 101st Precinct rushed to the location after receiving a 911 call about a man shot. When they arrived, they found the victim, who had sustained multiple gunshot wounds to his torso and arm.