Brooklyn couple found dead in apparent murder-suicide

By Dorian Block
NY Daily News, Saturday 9/6/08 11:12 pm

A Brooklyn man shot his girlfriend to death Saturday night and then turned the gun on himself in an apparent murder-suicide, cops said.

Officers responding to a 911 call found the couple dead in the rear bedroom of their third-floor apartment on Lott Ave. in Brownsville about 10 p.m.

Each was shot once in the head. A .380-caliber gun was found nearby, police said.

A fellow tenant in the building heard an argument before the shots rang out, a police source said.

Full story here.

Police report:

ON SATURDAY 09-06-08 AT APPROXIMATELY 2146 HRS POLICE RESPONDED TO 240 LOTTS AVE APT 3L, WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE 73 PCT, ON A 911 CALL OF TWO PEOPLE SHOT.

UPON ARRIVAL, RESPONDING OFFICERS DISCOVERED VICTIM #1, A F/B/33, WHO HAD BEEN SHOT IN THE HEAD AND A M/B WHO HAD ALSO BEEN SHOT IN THE HEAD IN THE REAR BEDROOM OF THE APARTMENT. EMS ALSO RESPONDED TO THE SCENE AND PRONOUNCED BOTH VICTIMS DOA AT THE SCENE.

THERE ARE NO ARRESTS AND THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING. IDENTITIES OF THE DOA'S ARE PENDING PROPER IDENTIFICATION AND FAMILY NOTIFICATION.

*******************UPDATE, 09/07/08, 1410 HRS.,

VICTIM: TAWANNA GAVIN, F/B/33
240 LOTT AVENUE

M/B/30, FAMILY NOT NOTIFIED.

WANTED for Murder: Corey Odom

ON WEDNESDAY 8-20-2008 AT 2224 HOURS AT THE C/O QUINCY ST AND NOSTRAND AVE, WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE 79 PRECINCT, POLICE RESPONDED TO A CALLS OF A PERSON SHOT. UPON ARRIVAL, POLICE OBSERVED 2 M/B'S WITH GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE BODY. THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING. THERE ARE NO SUSPECT(S) AND NO ARREST(S) AT THIS TIME. EMS RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED THE VICTIMS AS FOLLOWS.

VICTIM #1- M/B/19 (GSW: 1X - LEFT SHOULDER)- REMOVED TO KCH IN STABLE CONDITION.

VICTIM #2- M/B/26 (GSW: 1X - CHEST) - REMOVED TO WOODHULL HOSPITAL, PRONOUNCED DOA AT 2320 HOURS

THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT IS REQUESTING THE PUBLIC'S HELP INDENTIFYING THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS WANTED FOR QUESTIONING IN REGARDS TO THE ABOVE INCIDENT.

DOA- COREY ODOM M/B/26 262 MONROE STREET BROOKLYN NY

ANYONE WITH INFORMATION IN REGARDS TO THIS CASE IS ASKED TO CONTACT THE NYPD'S CRIMESTOPPERS HOTLINE AT 1(800)-577-TIPS. THE PUBLIC CAN ALSO TEXT TO 274637, THEN ENTER TIP577. ALL CALLS WILL BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL.

Ebbetts Field Handyman Charged with Murder

From the NY Post police blotter, Saturday 9/6/08:

A suspect has been charged with murdering a 63-year-old woman inside her Crown Heights apartment last month, police said yesterday.

Anthony Cuyler, 50, allegedly beat Katrine Anderson to death in her seventh-floor apartment inside the Ebbets Field Houses at 9:50 p.m. on Aug. 29.

Cuyler was a handyman at the complex.

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Slay charge for handyman

BY KERRY BURKE and ALISON GENDAR
NY DAILY NEWS, 9/4/08

A drug-addled handyman was charged with murder Thursday in the beating death of a churchgoing Brooklyn woman, police said.

Anthony Cuyler, 50, worked in the Ebbets Field Houses, where 63-year-old Katrine Anderson was found slain in her apartment Aug. 29.

Police sources said Cuyler tried to blame the victim, claiming the soft-spoken Baptist was drunk, swung at him and hit her head when he pushed her away.

"He lied. She was just nice to him. He was the one intoxicated. Her face, she looked like she had gone rounds with a boxer," a police source said.

The custodian then removed Anderson's blood-splattered T-shirt, sofa slipcovers and a bottle of wine from the apartment.

Full story here.

Murder on Park Avenue (79th Precinct)

ON FRIDAY 09-05-08 AT APPROXIMATELY 2141 HOURS POLICE RESPONDED TO 896 PARK AVENUE, WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE 079 PRECINCT, ON A 911 CALL OF A MALE SHOT. UPON ARRIVAL, RESPONDING OFFICERS DISCOVERED THE VICTIM, M/B/31, WHO HAD BEEN SHOT MULTIPLE TIMES IN THE TORSO. EMS ALSO RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED THE VICTIM TO WOODHULL HOSPITAL WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DOA AT 2210 HOURS. THERE ARE NO ARRESTS AND AT THIS TIME AND THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.

VICTIM:

KEITH WASHINGTON M/B/31

3713 GLENWOOD ROAD

DECATUR, GA

Stabbed to death in Crown Heights (77th Precinct)

ON 09-03-08 AT APPROXIMATELY 1746 HRS POLICE RESPONDED TO 1285 ST JOHNS PLACE, WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE 077 PCT, TO A 911 CALL FOR A PERSON STABBED. UPON ARRIVAL, RESPONDING OFFICERS DISCOVERED THE AIDED, A M/B/17, STABBED 1X IN THE CHEST, UNCONCIOUS AND UNRESPONSIVE. EMS ALSO RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED THE AIDED TO KCH, PRONOUNCED 1820 HRS.
THIS INCIDENT IS UNDER INVESTIGATION NO ARRESTS.

Killed in Crown Heights (71st Precinct)

ON WEDNESDAY 09-03-08 AT APPROXIMATELY 2217 HRS POLICE RESPONDED TO 358 MONTGOMERY ST, WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE 71 PCT, ON A 911 CALL OF A MALE SHOT.
UPON ARRIVAL, RESPONDING OFFICERS DISCOVERED THE VICTIM, A M/H/41 WHO HAD BEEN SHOT IN THE TORSO, IN THE FIRST FLOOR HALLWAY.
EMS ALSO RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED THE VICTIM TO KCH WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DOA AT APPROXIMATELY 2242 HRS.
THERE ARE NO ARRESTS, AND THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING

DOA:

FRANCISCO UNAPANTA, M/W/41

358 MONTGOMERY ST,

Double shooting, one dead (79th Precinct)

ON MONDAY 9-1-2008 AT APPROXIMATELY 1954 HOURS AT TOMPKINS AVENUE AND LAFAYETTE AVENUE, WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE 79 PRECINCT, POLICE RESPONDED TO A CALL OF A PERSON SHOT. UPON ARRIVAL, POLICE OBSERVED TWO M/B'S WITH GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE BODY. THERE ARE NO SUSPECT(S) AND NO ARREST(S) AT THIS TIME. VICTIM #1 IS CURRENTLY UNIDENTIFIED. THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING. EMS RESPONDED AND TRANSPORTED THE FOLLOWING VICTIMS AS FOLLOWS:

VICTIM #1 - (M/B/17) GSW 1x TO GROIN - TRANSPORTED TO KCH (DOA)

VICTIM #2 - (M/B/30) GSW 1x LEFT LEG - TRANSPORTED TO KCH (STABLE)

Shot to death on Lott Ave. (73rd Precinct)

ON 08/27/08, AT APPROXIMATELY 1200 HRS, INSIDE OF 27 LOTT AVE IN THE CONFINES OF THE 73 PCT, POLICE RESPONDED TO A 911 CALL OF A MALE SHOT. UPON ARRIVAL POLICE DISCOVERED A M/B/55 WHO WAS SHOT 1X IN THE TORSO. EMS RESPONDED AND PRONOUNCED THE MALE D.O.A AT THE SCENE. INVESTIGATION ONGOING.

DOA:

HOWARD, STEVEN M/B/55

345 THATFORD AVENUE

Beaten to death at 47 McKeever Place (71st Precinct)

ON FRIDAY 8-29-2008 AT APPROXIMATELY 2150 HOURS INSIDE OF 47 MCKEEVER PLACE, WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE 71 PRECINCT, POLICE RESPONDED TO A CALL OF AN UNCONSCIOUS FEMALE. UPON ARRIVAL, POLICE OBSERVED A F/B/64 UNCONSCIOUS AND UNRESPONSIVE. EMS RESPONDED AND PRONOUNCED THE FEMALE DOA ON THE SCENE.

THE DECEASED NAME IS KATRINE ANDERSON, F/B/63, 47 MCKEEVER PLACE, 7th FL.

AFTER CONFERRAL WITH THE MEDICAL EXAMINERS OFFICE, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT THE VICTIM SUFFERED BLUNT TRAUMA TO THE HEAD, THIS CASE HAS NOW BEEN CLASSIFIED AS A HOMICIDE. THERE ARE NO ARRESTS AT THIS TIME, THE INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.