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Correction Officer Arrested For Allegedly Fatally Shooting Uncle
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Jen Chung
Published Jan 2, 2020
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An NYC Correction Department employee has been charged with murder, after his uncle was found dead on an Upper West Side street.
The incident took place around 9:45 p.m. on January 1st; according to the NYPD, officers, responding to an assault at Manhattan Avenue and West 107th Street, found a 37-year-old man with a gunshot wound in the torso. The victim, Steven Gadsden, was taken to Mount Sinai-St. Luke's Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
On Thursday morning, the police announced that correction officer Cardell Gadsden—the victim's nephew—was arrested late Wednesday night.
According to the Post, Gadsden, his uncle, and another man were in a car together "when the relatives got into a spat. The argument between the uncle and nephew escalated and spilled out onto the sidewalk where Cardell allegedly blasted Steven in the chest, killing him, before walking away, police said."
Gadsden later turned himself in; he "called police, informed them had discharged his firearm and arranged his surrender. He was in custody by 11:30 p.m.," officials said.
In addition to murder, Gadsden was charged with criminal use of a firearm.
"We are deeply troubled by these allegations and our condolences go out to the victim's family," Deputy Commissioner for Public Information Peter Thorne told WABC 7. "An NYPD investigation is underway and the officer has been suspended without pay pending the results of that investigation."
Steven Gadsden was already the second killing of the new year in NYC. The first recorded homicide was a 29-year-old man found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in an apartment at the Bronx River Houses.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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