As crime continues to rise in New York, homeless men were repeatedly accused of attacking and sometimes murdering the city's residents over the course of 2022.
Clarkson Wilson, 44, lay in wait outside the IHOP on 14th Street in Manhattan for hours before allegedly shooting Imani Armstrong, 25, his ex-girlfriend and mother-of-three, execution-style last week.
New York City masked gunman in East Village shooting of 25-year-old woman near NYU campus waited outside her overnight restaurant job for hours before ambushing his ex-girlfriend.
Clarkson Wilson, 44, lurked outside IHOP’s E. 14th St. location, waiting and pacing until Imani Armstrong, 25, stepped outside about 5 a.m. Thursday, then pulled on a sweatshirt and mask and followed her, prosecutors allege.
The bizarre Nov. 10, 2021, confrontation between the volunteer, Derrick DeMaria, and Lt. Jermaine Oden and Police Officer Md. Khader in Tompkins Square Park was captured on cellphone video obtained by The News.