OMG! My Dry Cleaner Found Dead in WT**Arrest Made!**

Flexichick wrote:
Well, WTGirl, it's pretty easy to say "I didn't know her.." and then point fingers at other people.

As a single woman, I simply don't want to give out my name and phone number to organize this.

Let's not argue. I am not pointing fingers Flexi by any means. There are lots of people who want to help and nobody to lead yet. (It is inappropriate for someone who never met her to be that lead person). It also would be a healing thing for people who were personally affected by this tragedy to jump and start the ball rolling--sometimes people just need a nudge to take on that role. I am trying to figure out who, if anyone, is taking it on so I can help out. Let's not argue on this thread!

PrayforLinda, thank you so much for posting. My heart goes out to you and your family. Your aunt was such a wonderful person and I'll miss her kindness, charm and sense of humor.

How about showing up at the next Community Board meeting folks?

When and where?

i just today came across this blog for the first time today. i feel horrible about this woman's murder, but does anyone else find this felicia sullivan's article a bit distasteful, turning a horrible crime into a self indulgent hate-fest on park slope...

http://feliciasullivan.com/?p=899

Subject: Such a great woman

PrayforLinda, I just want to add in another voice of someone that thought the world of your Aunt. My wife and I have only lived in the area for about 2 years, but Linda was such a great lady, always quick with a compliment for the both of us. We are just horrified at the situation and want to send our condolences to your family, please tell them again how much she was loved in the community.

We'd happily pitch in for a memorial or anything in her honor; I'll keep checking back and see what can be done.

WTG, do you have a link to that discussion? Thanks.

Thank you, daver.

Good news for part of a memorial tribute-- the city will pay for a memorial tree! They will put a pit in on the 10 Av side of the building and be planting an Eastern Redbud, Cercis Canadensis (a flowering tree). The tree should be planted some time next week. I am happy things could work out.

I called CB7 today and was given a 6:30 start time , I would recommend calling them tomorrow to verify the correct time.

Seems like Jamal Winter has a histrory of crime:

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2008/05/20/2008-05-20_dry_cleaner_slay_suspect_tied_to_theft.html

Flexichick wrote: I just met her two sons - they are standing in front of the store.

In addition to the meeting tomorrow which is actually from 5-7pm (not 6:30) according to the memo I have from deBlasio's office, there will also be a service in front of the store on Thursday night (not sure of the time).

The sons will be at both.

I also pointed them to this site so they could see how many people are interested and cared about their mother.

(and now I'll go erase some of my curse words.....oops)

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You're right the meeting is at 5to7 tomorrow night at PS154 . for some reason I thought the discussion was about the CB7 meeting tomorrow which is at 6:30, sorry thought

Emergency Meeting
IMPORTANT MEETING ON NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY
Wednesday, May 21, 5pm- 7pm
PS 154—1625 11th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(Between Winsor place and Sherman avenue, Brooklyn, NY)
Councilmember Bill de Blasio and Assembly member Jim Brennan with the help of Capt. Simonetti, Special Operations, and the Crime Prevention Unit will host a forum at PS 154 tomorrow night about the recent robberies and murder in Windsor Terrace. On the morning of May 16th, Kyung-Sook Woo, who owned the Eden Dry Cleaners at 10th Avenue and Windsor Place in Windsor Terrace was found dead in her store. Jamal Winter, is being held without bail in connection with the death. He was arraigned on first and second degree murder charges and first degree robbery.

In light of recent events, Councilmember de Blasio is organizing meeting to inform the community of what the New York Police Department (NYPD) is doing to keep our neighborhood one of the safest in the city.
For questions contact:
Sarah Figuereo
District office
(718) 854-9791
[email protected]

Free and open to the public
--
Mollie Meikle
603.608.8253
[email protected]

Here's an unpleasant new piece of information (or old one, of someone already posted it...)

In one of those technicalities you only expect to hear about on Law and Order, a judge screwed up, forgetting to mention that parole was part of the sentence that landed Winter in jail for a crime he committed in 2002. He was automatically placed on parole after serving 5 years, but the judge hadn't told him that parole was part of his sentence. In June 2007, he was incarcerated for violating parole by committing a robbery similar to the one that landed him in jail the first time, but he had to be let out of jail and was able to make the $10,000 bail set for the second crime - which, because of the judge's error, no longer counted as a parole violation entailing automatic incarceration till trial. That's why he was out the day he committed the murder.

Here's the story from the Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/05/21/2008-05-21_loophole_let_thug_in_brooklyn_slay_go_fr-2.html

so is this just a completely random thing? I'm wondering why he focused on Linda as opposed to any other shop owner.

So here's a case if you see something say something, but then I don't know what good it does. I remember when we first moved to the neighbor hood there was a rash of car window smashings. When I called the community relations desk at the precinct to ask what I could do to avoid this it was like they didn't give a flying, well,hoot

I was there.