Deputy Chief John Wilson stated that Colón had a parole warrant and a bench warrant for failing to register as a level three New York State sex offender, highlighting the seriousness of the situation.
The first three months of 2026 were among the three safest first-three-month periods since records started being kept at the dawn of the Automobile Age, with only 42 fatalities from car crashes in New York City.
The four unknown individuals asked to be driven to a location but the driver denied the request. It was allegedly at this point that one of the individuals in the group showed a firearm, forced the driver out of the car and the group stole it.
John Kaehny has written and successfully lobbied for the passage of state and New York City laws related to government transparency and accountability, including the first open data law in the world in 2012.
Police said someone opened fire on Jairo Javier Vinces-Cobena, who lived on the 5500 block of 98th Street, in front of another home on the 9700 block of 55th Avenue in Corona just before 7:50 p.m. on March 13. Officers from the 110th Precinct were called to the scene after receiving a 911 call about a man shot. When they arrived, they found Vinces-Cobena shot multiple times about his body.