Photo from March 21, 2024, by Stacie Joy
Manhattan D.A. Bragg yesterday announced a guilty plea from the suspect arrested for two shootings in Tompkins Square Park in March 2024.
According to the D.A.'s office, 38-year-old Waldemar Alverio pleaded guilty in New York State Supreme Court to three counts of Attempted Murder in the Second Degree. He is expected to be sentenced on Feb. 3 "to a promised term of 13 years in state prison," per the D.A.'s office.
On March 16, 2024, at 12:45 p.m., two men allegedly chased, punched and kicked Alverio. As they ran off, Alverio unzipped his bag and pulled out a gun, firing at them five times, per court documents.
Alverio struck one of the two men in the buttocks, fracturing his pelvis and lodging a bullet in his hip. Alverio also shot a bystander, a 53-year-old tourist, fracturing her right hip, which had to be surgically replaced. Per the D.A.'s office, "she will require months of physical therapy as she learns how to walk again."
Five days later, on March 21, Alverio returned to Tompkins Square Park just after noon, approached a group in the park, and shot at them five times.
While Alverio did not strike anyone on that day, one bullet smashed through a window into a bedroom in an apartment building across Seventh Street, and another bullet smashed through a window and lodged in a stairwell in a second building on Seventh Street.
Officers from the 7th Precinct recognized Alverio from a wanted flyer and arrested him on Delancey Street on March 26.
"These senseless and reckless shootings left two victims significantly injured and put the safety of many New Yorkers at risk," Bragg said in a statement. "Combatting gun violence is crucial to achieving lasting public safety, and we will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to remove illegal firearms off our city's streets and drive down shootings."
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