I was waiting for the light to turn to walk. [While] I was waiting, all of a sudden, the guy slashed me twice. I yelled, and he looked like he turned around to go. And then just because I yelled, he did it again.
Jairo Javier Vinces-Cobena, 36, was shot outside a residential building on 55th Ave., a short walk from his apartment on 98th St. in Corona, around 7:49 p.m., according to law enforcement. Medics rushed him to Elmhurst Hospital, where he died, police said.
EXCLUSIVE: NEW YORK - The FBI has warned it is getting ready to smash and dismantle the transnational gangs who have helped transform a busy commercial strip in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's district into a crime-infested hot spot blighted by illegal prostitution, drugs, human trafficking and violence.
