Mar. 8-14, 2012 Your Neighborhood - Your News® FREE THE NEWSPAPER OF HOLLIS, ST. ALBANS, CAMBRIA HEIGHTS, SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, ROSEDALE & RICHMOND HILL Meeks faces challenge from Turner for seat Page 16 QGuide Page 25 Magnet library Murder leads to numerous arrests renovations get 13 people charged with weapon possession after South Jamaica teenager killed student plaudits BY RICH BOCKMANN BY JOE ANUTA The furniture inside the After an 18-year-old was 75-year-old library at the Cam- murdered in South Jamaica last pus Magnet Complex in Cambria week, police not only arrested two Heights used to be in such poor teenagers and charged them with condition the librarians would re- the killing, but collared nearly a cord videos of themselves rocking dozen other youths in related ar- back and forth in wobbly-legged rests, according to the NYPD. chairs when applying for grants. A web of shootings that po- “The computers were in- lice said were connected to the adequate and there was not murder of Darryl Adams early enough seating. It really was an Friday morning was uncovered old library,” Humanities and the when cops raided a Rosedale Arts Magnet High School Princi- house. They found five handguns pal Rosemarie O’Mard said at a and charged ribbon-cutting ceremony for the 11 people newly renovated library Friday between the Full coverage morning. “[The students] didn’t ages of 14 and Pages 4, 5 like the library before. They like 20 with crim- it now.” inal posses- The building, at 207-01 116th sion of a weapon, the NYPD said. Ave., is home to four di f ferent high Among those charged were schools and about 1,800 students two teens, who police charged who benefit from the $600,000 with attempted murder in other renovation that put a new polish cases involving the suspected on the library’s circulation desk killers of Adams. and bookshelves and purchased Adams left behind his moth- 43 new computers, new furniture, er and siblings, who were set to lighting and a new floor. bury him next week. “It’s more comfortable and The news of Adams’ death it’s got a different vibe. I actually has generated a flood of support want to be here and study,” said from the community, and a Ja- junior Shantell Andrews, who maica lawmaker wants to hold drops by the library about two or the city responsible for not allow- three times a week to work on re- ing the family to move after Ad- search projects or pick out a new ams was first shot in July. book to read. Each of the four different Shanta Merritt, whose son Darryl Adams was shot and killed in the South Jamaica Houses, hugs Darrell Lynch, who stopped Continued on Page 15 by to pay his respects as Merritt was making a memorial outside her apartment building. Photo by Christina Santucci A CNG Publication • Vol. 18, No. 10 52 total pages 2 JT York opens lab for nursing Man shot in gang war COM . College’s new facility contains pediatric and critical care units outside Wendy’s: DA BY CHRISTINA SANTUCCI using a semi-automatic pis- TIMESLEDGER tol, according to the crimi- A 21-year-old alleged nal complaint provided by gang member has been ar- the DA. rested and charged in con- After the shooting, nection with the shooting which took place at about . 8-14, 2012 2012. 8-14, AR of three suspected MS-13 3 p.m., the suspect fled in , M members in the parking a tan Toyota Corolla with lot of a Wendy’s in Jamaica tinted windows northbound EDGER L last Thursday afternoon, on Queens Boulevard, the IMES police said. DA said. T Damian Rampersad, of Two of the people shot 90-10 149th St. in Jamaica, were 20 years old and one is believed to belong to the was 17, and all three are Latin Kings, according to a suspected MS-13 members, police source. the DA said. One person Rampersad has been was shot in the buttocks, charged with attempted another in the right calf murder, assault and crimi- and the third in the right nal possession of a weapon arm, according to court in the midday drive-by documents. shooting, according to the “It turns out that ap- NYPD. parently it is a dispute be- “Like in so many dif- tween the MS-13 gang and ferent boroughs, we do the Latin Kings,” Brown have a gang problem here,” said at the scene. Queens District Attorney One person was taken Richard Brown told report- to Jamaica Hospital, while ers outside the Wendy’s on the two others were trans- Jamaica Avenue near the ported to New York Hospi- Officials York College President Marcia Keizs (l.-r.); CUNY Vice Chancellor Iris Wienshall; Timothy James, a representative for Sen. Shirley intersection of Queens Bou- tal Queens in Flushing. Huntley; Councilman Ruben Wills; and nursing professor Emily Davidson check the vital signs of Harvey, one of more than 20 mannequin levard. “It’s something that “Crime scene detec- patients with life-like symptom responses. The mannequins are used to help students in the program with making patient diagnoses. the police are very much on tives are here on the scene Photo courtesy York College top of.” following up on any leads,” Rampersad allegedly Brown said. BY TATYANA SOUTHERLAND Health and Behavioral Sci- to mock the environment of minded individuals and fired five to seven rounds Continued on Page 14 ences. a hospital. The lab contains ties in junior high school York College celebrat- The nursing program five units — a nursing home and high school students ed the opening Friday of opened last September and unit, a maternity unit, a pe- who are aspiring to pursue its state-of-the-art nurs- the simulation lab has been diatric unit, an acute care careers in the health care ing lab, the first four-year in the works for the past unit and a critical care unit industry,” he said. nursing program offered in four years. It received fund- — just like a regular hospi- Nursing students get Queens. ing for construction from tal would. to practice treating pa- “The program is de- CUNY; Dr. William Eben- City Councilman Ru- tients on mannequins that signed to prepare nurses to stein, dean of CUNY Health ben Wills (D-Jamaica) said simulate people with real be proficient in caring for and Human Services; and the program is going to open health concerns. complex patient needs in a considerable $1.5 million a doorway for a lot of people “These are life-like today’s technologically ad- from Borough President in southeast Queens. patient simulators. We vanced health care arena,” Helen Marshall. “It gives York College can create scenarios of a said Dr. Lynee Clark, dean The simulation lab is a an opportunity to increase patient who’s in need with- Police perform an investigation in the fast food restaurant park- of York College’s School of high-tech facility designed its enrollment with driven- Continued on Page 15 ing lot. 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POSTMASTER: Send address changes to the Jamaica Times Laurelton Times Queens Village Times C/O News Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. 41-02 Bell Boulevard, Bayside, N.Y. 11361. 3 Bangladeshi man tells Jamaica about country’s birth J T T IMES Nuran Nabi, biochemist and guerilla fi ghter, speaks to a library audience about war with Pakistan L EDGER BY JOE ANUTA graphically separate areas raped at 200,000. ist movement, which start- , M — West Pakistan, which ex- Although the term ed in the early 1950s all the AR America’s founding ists today as Pakistan and “genocide” is not thrown way through the defeat of 2012. 8-14, fathers are often conjured borders Afghanistan, and around lightly, Nabi re- the Pakistani Army with from the past to bolster var- East Pakistan, which was ferred to a communique his book “Bullets of ’71: A ious political arguments, renamed Bangladesh after from the United States’ con- Freedom Fighter’s Story.” but Sunday in Jamaica a the violent 1971 conflict sul in Dhaka that used the The aging fighter has TIMESLEDGER soldier from Bangladesh’s and borders Myanmar and term. an interesting history him- war for independence was the Bay of Bengal. The Pakistani govern- self. there in the flesh, speaking “The Bangladeshi Lib- ment has said the number After the war, he fled . about the bloody fight and eration War is a forgotten of dead is closer to 30,000, Bangladesh when a mili- COM how there are always two genocide in the West,” Nabi but that is exactly why Nabi tary coup toppled its lead- sides to history.