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16-year-old suspect in violent church mugging in Queens arrested 9 other times
ABC 7 New York ^ | April 12, 2024

Posted on 04/12/2024 8:14:59 PM PDT by grundle

JAMAICA, Queens (WABC) -- The 16-year-old suspect caught on video shoving a senior down the stairs of her church in Queens during a violent mugging is now being charged with robbing and assaulting her.

The teen was taken to the hospital after he took off his shirt off in the precinct holding cell and wrapped it around his neck. Police say he was taken to the hospital for evaluation, and once he is released, he will be arraigned.

Despite being arraigned as an adult, the Queens District Attorneys Office says they will not be identifying the 16-year-old because of his age.

He has been arrested nine times in Queens as an adolescent offender since August 2023. Eight of those arrests involved robberies and the ninth was criminal possession of stolen property.

The teen was arrested Thursday on charges including robbery, assault, grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property.

The attack happened Sunday morning outside St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Jamaica Hills. The victim, a 68-year-old mother of two named Irene Tahliambouris, was heading to service when she was attacked.

Surveillance video shows the attacker run in front of the victim, as she walks up the steps to the church entrance, and violently shove her, sending her falling backwards. She suffered a fractured skull and black eye, but she is stable in the ICU.

After the assault, the suspect grabbed Tahliambouris' purse with her car keys and cellphone inside.

He also allegedly stole her 2006 Nissan Altima, which police recovered overnight on Tuesday, approximately 3.5 miles away from the church. Police were able to pull a fingerprint from the recovered car.

The victim's family posted on social media, saying in part: "criminals feel comfortable doing things to helpless people because the laws in our state do not hold them accountable."

Father Konstantions Kalogridis says he and the parishioners at the church are relieved that a suspect is in custody.

"There were no words to express you know, the shock and the surprise to see one of my parishioners, a simple, humble lady going to church," he said. "She was almost ready to open the door of the church."

Harry Panagiotopoulos says the attack rattled the entire Greek community in Queens. He says it's the lack of action following brutal crimes that continues to put communities in danger.

"We have Greek Easter coming up as well. It's on the 5th of May, my grandmother doesn't want to go to church and I'm sure many grandmothers don't want to go to church, they're afraid to go to church, what a shame," Panagiotopoulos said.

The victim's family said she is doing much better. She is still in the hospital but can now recognize people and speak and they hope she will be able to go home soon.

The teen is being investigated in other neighborhood crimes, including an attempted robbery of an elderly person. In addition to the church attack, he is being charged with an unrelated incident three days earlier where he allegedly stole another woman's car.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 16yearold; blackonwhitecrime; feral; fracturedskull; horrifying; jayvaunprince; predator; rapsheet
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To: grundle

“arrested 9 times since last summer”


21 posted on 04/12/2024 9:19:54 PM PDT by deks (Deo duce, ferro comitante · God for guide, sword for companion)
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To: Bullish

RE: I’m thinkin’ all this soft on crime and defund police ain’t working out too well.

Agree.

The vigilantes of the Old West solved the problem of corrupt towns run by the wealthy bankers and railroad owners who dictated to the wimpy sheriffs. While gangs of rough mannered hooligans shot at people in the street and grabbed women.
A lot like today. A lot.


22 posted on 04/12/2024 9:21:05 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: deks

Really, really difficult for him to maintain his status as “basically a good boy” with that record. Except to his mom.


23 posted on 04/12/2024 9:22:27 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: frank ballenger

Aspiring rapper, perhaps?


24 posted on 04/12/2024 9:27:01 PM PDT by deks (Deo duce, ferro comitante · God for guide, sword for companion)
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To: deks

RE: aspiring rapper

I pushed an old white I knocked down
and now all the cops got a frown
I just felt like taking some cash
Cause my weed was real low in my stash
I don’t give a crap for your law
I just stole a purse that I saw
So all of you just take a hike
Cause I always will do what I like.


25 posted on 04/12/2024 9:34:23 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: grundle

He seems to have no conscience. Maybe he’s sociopath, or just a bad seed. Whatever his issue is, he needs to be locked up before he kills someone.


26 posted on 04/12/2024 9:42:28 PM PDT by KittyKares
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To: 05 Mustang GT Rocks; Ad Orientam; alex; antonius; aposiopetic; arielguard; bad company; ...
Orthodox Ping!

Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!

Pinged because the scene of this horrific crime was the St. Demetrios Orthodox Church and the victim was a parishioner headed for Liturgy.

27 posted on 04/12/2024 9:48:01 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: KittyKares
Whatever his issue is, he needs to be locked up before he kills someone.

He needs to be "transitioned" into becoming incapable of spawning.

28 posted on 04/12/2024 9:50:36 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: frank ballenger

😆


29 posted on 04/12/2024 9:51:05 PM PDT by deks (Deo duce, ferro comitante · God for guide, sword for companion)
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To: bgill

Used to not care but now it’s been open season after Soetero, then Floyd, no millions of illegals and ...as I said, open season, diagnosed by the FBI/DHS as extremist, white Christian Nationalists.

No conspiracy, just the truth.


30 posted on 04/12/2024 10:09:59 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: nopardons

The New York Post is the only U.S. news source that has published his name.


31 posted on 04/12/2024 11:07:41 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle
Priest should announce:

In the future, should we witness such a crime, we will not call the police. We will summarily execute the bleep and hang his corpse from the bell tower out front".

32 posted on 04/12/2024 11:14:17 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: grundle

The odds are the victim voted Democrat. Queens voted for Biden 69% Trump 30%.


33 posted on 04/13/2024 2:57:26 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: from occupied ga

In ‘20 democrats cheated in swing states—that’s a certainty. What would make anyone believe that democrats wouldn’t routinely try to boost the total democrat popular vote (and embarrass the other side) by padding their numbers in strongholds like New York?


34 posted on 04/13/2024 3:31:17 AM PDT by aligncare ( Make America America Again…Trump 2024)
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To: grundle; All

If that were my grahndmother (when they let him out again), he’d go down.


35 posted on 04/13/2024 4:11:50 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: grundle

Another DISGRACE to decent American citizens by the DemocRATS!! ...imho


36 posted on 04/13/2024 4:27:33 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: grundle

37 posted on 04/13/2024 4:29:16 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Reynoldo

Too late. I read on another site, earlier today, that the 16 year old yoof had toped himself. Don’t know if it’s true.


38 posted on 04/13/2024 5:07:14 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: aligncare

They don’t have to in NY. It takes resources like money and manpower to cheat and they won’t do it if they’re going to win anyway.


39 posted on 04/13/2024 5:28:30 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: grundle
Wrapped his shirt around his neck and started shouting: "I can't breath. I can't breath."
40 posted on 04/13/2024 6:29:44 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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