What’s News, Breaking: Friday, December 2, 2022
WOMAN SOUGHT IN CHEMICAL BURN ATTACK: Police ask the public to help identify a woman who splashed a chemical substance in a commuter’s face early this morning (Friday, December 2) at the Nostrand Avenue/Winthrop Street subway station, within the 71st Precinct. A 21-year-old woman was standing on the southbound 2/5 train platform when the unidentified woman assailant instigated a verbal dispute, followed the victim up the stairs and then splashed the chemical on the victim’s face.
The victim was removed to NYC Health & Hospitals/Jacobi in critical but stable condition with burns to the left side of the face.
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NYPD’S JEFFREY MADDREY PROMOTED TO CHIEF OF DEPARTMENT: NYPD’s Jeffrey B. Maddrey, who has most recently served as Chief of Patrol, on Friday was promoted and named as the Chief of Department as part of Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell’s sweeping appointments of several NYPD commanders to new leadership positions within the Department’s executive team. Chief Maddrey, a 31-year veteran of the NYPD, with this promotion becomes the agency’s highest-ranking uniformed officer and the four-star leader charged with overseeing the Department’s crime-fighting strategies and implementing its operational plans.