Weekly Safety Report: Assaults, Murder Charges, Robbery, Shooting, and Carjacking Hit Nassau County, New York

This week in Nassau County, New York, several incidents occurred involving assaults, murder charges, robbery, shooting, and carjacking. These incidents took place in Valley Stream, Hempstead, Oceanside, Bethpage, and Garden City. The incidents involved a knife-wielding man assaulting a woman, a man charged with murder in a fatal beating, a fish and chips thief attempting to bite an employee during a robbery, the identification of a shooting suspect near a high school, shoplifters assaulting an employee while fleeing with stolen goods, and a woman being injured during a carjacking at a mall.

Knife-Wielding Man Assaults Woman In Valley Stream : Police

Daily Voice12-19-2023

A 36-year-old man named Charles Mckenzie attacked a 31-year-old woman with a knife in Valley Stream. The exact location of the attack has not been disclosed. The woman suffered lacerations on her neck and behind. Mckenzie was arrested at the scene.

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• Knife-Wielding Man Assaults Woman In Valley Stream : Police

LI man charged with murder in fatal beating at Chuck E. Cheese

1010WINS12-19-2023

Dennis Ray, a 62-year-old man, was arraigned on murder charges for allegedly beating a man to death outside a Chuck E. Cheese in Hempstead. Ray pleaded not guilty and is due back in court. He was previously indicted on assault, robbery, and weapon possession charges.

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• LI man charged with murder in fatal beating at Chuck E. Cheese
• Chuck E. Cheese Beating Death : Roosevelt Man Charged , DA Says

Fish And Chips Thief Tries To Bite Oceanside Employee During Robbery : Police

Daily Voice12-20-2023

A woman in her 30s robbed a convenience store in Oceanside by shoving cans of tuna and bags of chips into her pockets. As she left the store, she pushed a male employee and attempted to bite him before fleeing.

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• Fish And Chips Thief Tries To Bite Oceanside Employee During Robbery : Police

Police identify suspect in Friday 's shooting near Hempstead High School

News 1212-16-2023

The suspect in a shooting near Hempstead High School has been identified as 23-year-old Jairo Cornejo-Crespin from Freeport. The motive for the shooting has not been released, and there is no connection to the high school. Cornejo-Crespin is facing multiple charges, including attempted murder.

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• Police identify suspect in Friday 's shooting near Hempstead High School

Shoplifters Assault , Pepper-Spray Employee at Bethpage Supermarket While Fleeing with Armloads of Goods

longisland.com12-21-2023

Two subjects entered a supermarket in Bethpage and began stealing food items. When confronted by a loss prevention employee, the female subject relinquished the items and fled. The male subject refused to return the items and assaulted the employee with pepper spray.

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• Shoplifters Assault , Pepper-Spray Employee at Bethpage Supermarket While Fleeing with Armloads of Goods

Woman injured during carjacking at Roosevelt Field Mall

News 1212-20-2023

A 44-year-old woman was injured when two thieves stole her Lamborghini Urus from a parking garage at the Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City. The suspects threw the woman to the ground, searched her jacket for keys, and drove off in the stolen vehicle.

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• Woman injured during carjacking at Roosevelt Field Mall

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