A shocking discovery has shaken a quiet Queens neighborhood after the body of Rabbi Albert Itzkowitz was found near Kissena Lake, sparking a homicide investigation. The 55-year-old rabbi, who also served as a spiritual leader at a local nursing home, was discovered shot in the neck and back along the shoreline on May 18, just before 5 p.m. The city medical examiner's office has since confirmed that the death is being treated as a homicide, leaving authorities scrambling to piece together the circumstances surrounding the rabbi's tragic demise. As detectives work to identify potential suspects and motives, the community is left to grapple with the senseless violence that has shaken their usually peaceful streets.
Albert Itzkowitz – who also served as a rabbi at a nursing home – was mysteriously found shot in the neck and back along the shoreline of Kissena Lake just before 5 p.m. May 18, and the city medical examiner’s office has since ruled the case a homicide.
