In 2014, homicides involving foreigners accounted for 11 percent of the total of the countries included in the Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform reporting Program of crime, although in many cases other than this, the relationship between victim and killer was marked "unknown".
A review of homicides in the city this year where authorities either arrests or identified suspects gave less than 15 which, on the basis of the facts reported at the time and in the records of the court later seemed strange murders.
When two cases involving people killed in their workplaces were removed from the list, and two others where the victims were hit by stray bullets, the list of strange murders fell exposed nearly 10.
"God thank you, they are rare," Robert K. Boyce, chief of detectives of the police Department, said in an interview Friday. "they are head-scratchers. I just have found the bodies, and we do not know what happened. "
the No. 1 reason in a homicide is the resolution of a conflict, whether old years or seconds chief Boyce said.
Police Department officials said that nearly a third of all attacks can be attributed to teams or youth gang. The tendency to such violence led police to focus on groups through initiatives such as Operation Crew Cut, to create conspiracy cases that can lead to convictions prior homicides occur.
when the murders took place, police detectives usually work through a checklist angles of investigation, starting with the conflict in the past of a victim. Was the person in a gang? If so, investigators will determine if this band was feuding with another. Has the person had a criminal history? A homicide victim with multiple drug arrests would send detectives recorded in that looking for a pattern.
At the same time, cell phones and social media provide up-to-the-minute relationship problems up front, possibly laying bare arguments and continuous fighting.
the relatively rare presence of foreign homicides can be seen in the New York Times series of articles about each murder recorded this year in the 40th Precinct Police Department in the Bronx. In the six articles published to date, only one, a shot of fatal knife at a party at the crowded house might be considered a homicide by a stranger; the victim was unknown guests, irritating one who was drunk.
Most strange homicides examined in this article seems to be related to flights.
On January 22, a 61 year-old cook, Romulo Heras, was home in the east section of New York in Brooklyn when a named Jahkeem Scott teenager climbed through a window, police said . Mr. Scott later told police he had stabbed Mr. Heras to death and then prepared to start a fire to destroy evidence. When he noticed outsiders, according to court documents, "he took a shot of some liquor he had."
In another case, on June 17 in the Bronx, Carl Ducasse, 17, was stabbed to death in the street. In the days before his funeral, which drew hundreds of mourners, details surrounding the murder surfaced. A man asked Mr. Ducasse for money, and when he said he had none, the man assaulted, police said. When Mr. Ducasse took over in combat, a third man approached and stabbed him.
And on May 26 in Queens, in a case that District Attorney Richard A. Brown has called "truly disturbing" a man waiting for a bus before dawn was attacked by a homeless man who started and beat him to death before searching his pockets, according to a criminal complaint.
In all three cases, it appeared that there was no relationship between victim and killer.
that this was true in the murder Howard Beach remains to be seen. There were no witnesses. Ms. Vetrano normally ran with her father, but she was alone that night.
"Is it random or is there a pattern?" Chef Boyce said Friday. "Was she harassed by someone? That's our big question." More likely, he said, the attacker came on and she saw an opportunity. The survey included a careful review of the restaurant and the bar where she worked, her Instagram account and other aspects of his life.
"All we normally do has been done," he said. "We're going outside of the box now." The only thing the police seem to know about the killer's motive, sexual assault.
Several new killings have been added to its list last weekend, including murder on Saturday of an imam and his assistant in Queens. On Monday, a man from Brooklyn 35 years, was accused in the killings, although authorities have not identified a motive - not so unusual since police said a motive has not been established in about 50 of the 214 homicides in the city this year
Before the weekend, the most recent homicide in the city came early Friday in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, where Terrell Henry V., 22, from neighboring Bedford -Stuyvesant, was shot to 12 .: 50 am outside a bodega. There was arrested after leaving a party with his brother and a friend when he was shot, execution style, Boyce chief said.
"Brother and friend ride to see someone running away," said Boyce leader.
M .. Henry had no criminal history. There was no clear motive. So the detectives began looking at the minutes before his death. "Was he in a conflict at the party, so small?" Chef Boyce asked.
From there, the detectives will keep the coat.
"We do not know what happened," the chief said. "We must take off his life to see what happened."
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