Chris Tuttle, Author at NYC Anti-Violence Project

NCAVP Learns of the Hate Violence and Intimate Partner Violence Related Homicides of Felicia and Miguel Barahona in New York City

January 17, 2017

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs (NCAVP) has learned of the hate violence and intimate partner violence related homicides of Felicia Barahona, age 36, and Miguel Barahona, age 4. According to media reports, Felicia and Miguel were found dead in their apartment on Monday, December 26th, 2016, and the child’s father, Isaac Duran Infante, age 23, has been arrested in connection with the homicide. Infante allegedly told police that [...]

AVP Has Learned of a Hate Violence and Intimate Partner Violence Related Double Homicide in Hamilton Heights

January 3, 2017

AVP has learned of a hate violence and intimate partner violence related double homicide that occurred in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. According media reports (trigger warning for extreme violence), Felicia Barahona, age 36, and her child Miguel Barahona, age 4, were found dead in their apartment on Monday, December 26th, 2016. The child's father, Isaac Duran Infante, age 23, has been arrested in connection with the homicide. [...]

AVP Learns of an Attack on a Transgender Man in Harlem, Manhattan

AVP has learned of an attack on a Black transgender man which occurred on an uptown 4 train at 125th Street in Manhattan on December 24th, 2016. According to media reports, Ijan Jarrett, age 44, offered his seat to a woman on the train, who then used racial slurs and stabbed him under the eye. AVP has reached out to the office of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, the office of New York City Councilmember Inez Dickens, the office of P[...]

AVP Has Learned of an Anti-LGBTQ Hate Violence Incident in Tribeca

December 19, 2016

AVP has learned of an anti-LGBTQ hate violence incident that occurred outside the organizing space Decolonize This Place on the night of December 17th, 2016. According to media reports, a group of anti-racist activists leaving an event at the space were physically assaulted by four men, who chanted "Trump, Trump, Trump" during the attack. According to witnesses, the motive for the attacks was clearly racist, transphobic, and homophobic in nature:[...]

AVP Has Learned of a Hook-Up-Related Homicide of a Gay Man in the Bronx

December 9, 2016

AVP has learned of the hook-up homicide of a 68-year-old gay identified man in the Bronx. According media reports (trigger warning for extreme violence), the victim was found dead and mutilated in his bathtub inside an apartment on Sheridan Avenue in Claremont on Friday, December 2nd, 2016. Jerry Pagan, age 32, who is homeless, was arrested and charged in connection with the homicide. Media is reporting that the homicide may have been motivated b[...]

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