Federal authorities say that 21-year old Reeaz Khan should have been turned over to ICE after being arrested for allegedly attacking his father, but the NYPD claims they received no such notification.
Back in November, Khan was charged with assault and criminal possession of a weapon and then let go. Now, he’s been arrested again, and now a family is mourning the loss of a loved one simply because people in power are more concerned with public outrage over racial issues, than actually doing their jobs.
According to WCBS 880, a New York talk radio station, federal officials say Khan is in the country illegally from Guyana and they asked the NYPD to turn him over for deportation proceedings. That did not happen and in fact the NYPD says it never got that request.
The Daily News was able to interview Khan after he was arrested for the murder, and he claims he would never hurt an elderly woman.
“I’m crying about this too,” Khan said in an exclusive interview with the Daily News on Rikers Island, where he is being held without bail after being caught on video allegedly initiating the attack.
“I had a grandma that I took care of,” he said. “I’d wipe her eyes, carry her, and take her to doctors appointments. I would never hurt an elderly woman.”
From the Daily News:
Khan says he had gone to a hookah lounge to meet up with his cousins but was walking home disappointed after not finding them there when he came upon the victim. Maria Fuertes, already on the ground, “kicking her legs and shaking her arms around.”
“As I walked down the sidewalk I saw someone, a lady on the floor to the side of me,” Khan said. “I should have kept walking and just not helped but it’s in my heart to help.”
But prosecutors say he was caught on surveillance video approaching Maria Fuertes from behind while she was still standing, checking a pile of garbage bags for returnable empties on 127th St. in South Richmond Hill just after midnight Jan. 6.
The video shows them then falling to the ground together, disappearing from view behind a car for four sickening minutes just around the corner from the victim’s home.
Then Khan, a day laborer who lives less than a mile from the crime scene, is seen running off alone.
“I got scared and so I tried to grab her and push her up but she hit me with her arms and I fell back,” Khan claimed improbably Sunday. “I was so scared I didn’t know what to do… I just ran home and left.”
According to court papers, Maria Fuertes died at Jamaica Hospital with a fracture spine, broken ribs, internal hemorrhaging and tears in her vagina.
The two sons of the victim don’t believe the young man is innocent.
“Honestly he better not act like he don’t know what he did. He killed her, he killed my mother,” said Hugo Fuertes, 69. “Now he’s scared because he knows what’s coming, he knows what’s waiting for him.”
“He knows what he did and the community is angry,” added the victim’s younger son, Ray Fuertes, 52. ” I bet he just didn’t know there were cameras.”
What makes things even worse for Khan is that the person who turned him in was his own brother.
Federal officials say that Mayor de Blasio’s “sanctuary” policy is directly to blame for this murder.
“It was a deadly choice to release a man on an active ICE detainer back onto the streets after his first arrest included assault and weapon charges, and he now faces new charges, including murder,” said Thomas Decker, New York field-office director of enforcement and removal operations for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“New York City’s sanctuary policies continue to threaten the safety of all residents of the five boroughs as they repeatedly protect criminal aliens who show little regard for the laws of this nation.”
A spokesperson for de Blasio said that “it is shameful that the Trump administration is politicizing this tragedy,” as though sanctuary city policies aren’t to blame for allowing an illegal immigrant to commit multiple crimes before finally seeing some kind of justice.
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