The NYPD will hold a funeral service on Thursday for murdered Officer Adeed Fayaz. The funeral will take place at the Makki Masjid Mosque on Coney island Avenue near Foster Avenue in Midwood, Brooklyn. The services will tentatively be starting at 1:00PM. Thousands of police officers will be attending, and the area will be a traffic nightmare.
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Officer Adeed Fayaz, 26, was shot Saturday in Brooklyn, where he and his brother-in-law went to buy a car posted on Facebook Marketplace from a man later identified as the alleged shooter, authorities said.
“Police Officer Adeed Fayaz was a father, a husband, a son, and a protector of our great city,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said in a social media post Tuesday evening. “Our Department deeply mourns his passing, and his family and loved ones are in our prayers.”
Police officials said earlier Tuesday that Randy Jones, 38, was arrested at a suburban motel Monday in connection with the shooting. Tuesday night, authorities announced Jones was charged with murder and attempted robbery.
Fayaz, married with two young children, agreed to meet Jones on Saturday to buy a car for $24,000, Chief of Detectives James Essig said at a news conference. When Fayaz and his brother-in-law arrived, Jones asked “jokingly” if the men were armed, Essig said. Jones then put Fayaz in a headlock and demanded the money, the chief said.
Fayaz said he didn’t have the money, Essig said, and Jones pointed a gun at Fayaz’s brother-in-law. Fayaz broke free from the headlock and Jones shot him in the head, Essig said.
Jones ran, firing more shots at he fled, Essig said. The brother-in-law grabbed Fayaz’s gun from his hip and fired several shots as well, he said. The brother-in-law was not injured.
Jones drove off in a 2011 BMW that was registered to his mother, Essig said.
Jones was arrested Monday at a Days Inn in Nanuet, about 35 miles (55 kilometers) north of New York City. A woman and five children ages 6 months to 11 years were with him at the motel, Essig said. Police detained Jones using Fayaz’s handcuffs, Essig said.
(YWN World Headquarters – NYC / AP)
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6 Responses
Jews from Flatbush should show hakoras hatov and go. This is a bigger issue than traffic.
The police officers funeral will be tomorrow, Thursday at the Mosque on Coney Island Ave. between Foster Ave. and Ave. H.
As of now, *there will be a full traffic closure of Coney Island Ave. from Ditmas until Ave. I, starting 7 AM until 4 PM, and affecting the surrounding blocks.*
Rest in Peace. Thank you for your service
Unbelievable our issue is the traffic and not the fact that a police officer that is protecting us is dead and the possibility that the streets can be dangerous. Wrong focus YWN
Honestly, the hypocrisy is amazing. Who cares that he was a police officer? He wasn’t in the line of duty or dressed like one when he was killed. If some one else were killed doing the exact same thing, it would just be another statistic. But ooh, he happened to be a police officer (which I respect tremendously, but it irrelevant to what occurred) in his day job.
dreambig is 100% correct…
The fact that he was a police officer does not make this a bigger tragedy
He was not in the line of duty and if anything being a police officer in
NYC should have given him the street smarts to not fall for this scam..
Any person who loses his life is tragic and I feel for his friends and family
but this tragedy is being misportrayed ….
When you read a headline which boldly states FUNERAL OF MURDERED
NYPD POLICE OFFICER and a picture of the victim in his uniform is
shown it implies that he was murdered in the line of Duty.
Yeshiva World sensationalizes the news with the best of them ….