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A Double Tragedy: Hatzalah Veteran Gunned Down Just Days After Burying His Wife
Eliana Fleming
May 19, 2026

A highly decorated first responder and beloved community patriarch has been discovered brutally murdered along the edge of a public lake in Queens. Local law enforcement officers discovered the lifeless body of seventy-five-year-old Albert Avrumi Itzkowitz stretched across the immediate shoreline of Kissena Lake within Kissena Park…The sudden loss has deeply traumatized the Jewish community of Kew Gardens Hills, where Itzkowitz was widely regarded as a founding pillar of civilian volunteer infrastructure. Community advocates stated that he was a beautiful, wonderful man who spent his entire life working as an elite public servant, joining the Hatzalah emergency medical organization during its earliest formative years. READ MORE