News: LI Woman Killed by Robbers’ Car
(Long Island, N.Y.) Two people were charged with robbing from a major Long Island shopping center about a week after a Medford man allegedly shot and killed four people in a pharmacy. The recent string of robberies along Long Island has gotten many residents wondering about the cause of this heightened rate of crime. Some feel that the state of the economy is responsible for promoting excessive measures towards obtaining capital, extreme behavior, and violent crimes.
A twenty-six-year-old and an eighteen-year-old have been charged with criminal possession in the third-degree after stealing from Tanger Outlets. The duo was responsible for crashing their car after fleeing from police in a chase along the Long Island Expressway. The car they hit was severely damaged, killing the female occupant and injuring her sixty-one-year-old husband.
The incident occurred Monday afternoon and began after four thousand dollars was stolen from the shopping area. Members of the Riverhead Police Department had radioed a description of the vehicle connected with the robbery. The vehicle was a Lincoln Town Car that contained three occupants. Reports have stated that each of them had to be hospitalized for non-threatening injuries.
It is uncertain what injuries were sustained by the husband of the deceased. The collision occurred along a service road in Bohemia. The speed of both vehicles was unknown, but police and authorities on the case have been conducting an investigation into the collision. According to sources, the young drivers engaged in a seven-mile evasion route from police that began at around one in the afternoon.
Reports also stated that the charges against the persons responsible for the robbery reflect property that was stolen from Tanger Outlets. Sources have stated that the pair has been held at Suffolk County Jail on a $200,000 cash bond.
In other news, the wife of the suspected Medford gunman has not yet been indicted by a grand jury. According to reports, the twenty-nine-year-old has been cooperating with police to cut a deal in exchange for information that will implicate her husband in the robbery/shooting. She had been accused of helping her husband with his disguise and driving the vehicle that took him to and from the pharmacy.
Though she had claimed that killing was not part of the plan, she also chanted that he did it and that she was unaware he had been armed with a handgun. Her husband’s lawyer has stated that she is likely cooperating with authorities with the hopes of avoiding homicide charges. Nonetheless, she could face felony murder charges that would land her a sentence of twenty-five to life.
The grand jury is set to consider the evidence against her and it is uncertain whether she is willing to testify against her husband. It’s likely that her husband’s defense is to depict a case of mistaken identity, and that the legal aid attorney will try to maintain that he had been wrongfully taken as the shooter. Assuming he is convicted, he could face life in prison without the possibility of parole.
In the meantime, the thirty-three-year-old alleged gunman has been placed on suicide watch, though his lawyer has stated that he is not suicidal. The defense attorney also claimed that her client had not been treated for withdrawal at the time of his arrest and that he doesn’t know what the police have been searching for in their ongoing investigation. He is being accused of firing seven bullets, some of which were shot directly into the back of the victims’ heads.
