26th Pct. Homicide (Manhattan)

On January 2, 2010, NYPD officers using CCTV helped identify and apprehend the suspected killer of a nine-year-old at Grant Houses in upper Manhattan.

Moments after nine-year-old boy Anthony Maldonado was repeatedly stabbed in a sixth-floor apartment, at 75 LaSalle Street in the Grant Housing Development in Upper Manhattan, a report of the assault was broadcast over police radios, initially with no description of the suspect. Police officers monitoring CCTV from a remote operations center immediately began using their cameras to canvass all nine buildings in the 15-acre development, in an attempt to locate the killer. They locked onto an individual in an elevator inside of 75 LaSalle Street and manually controlled other cameras at the location to track the suspect and broadcast his exact whereabouts to responding uniformed officers. Within minutes, two uniformed officers apprehended Alejandro Morales on the grounds adjacent the building where the boy was killed.

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