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Investigation into “Targeted” Friday Midnight Shooting on Kensico Ave. See Something? Know Something? Inform White Plains Police Confidential at 422-6200
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WPCNR POLICE GAZETTE From White Plains Department of Public Safety. January 3, 2021:
White Plains police have provided the circumstances surrounding the shooting of a man on Kenisco Avenue late Saturday night. The following report was provided by Commander James Spencer.
On 12/31/21, at 2351hrs, The White Plains Police Department received (2) calls of shots fired in the area of 115 N. Kensico.
On scene, outside of 115 N. Kensico Ave, White Plains Officers found Shawn Jefferson, M/B, 9/9/72, (50) of 120 N. Kensico Ave WPNY, suffering from gunshot wounds.
White Plains Units on scene administered first aid and he was subsequently transported to White Plains Hospital.
Mr. Jefferson was pronounced deceased on 1/1/22 at 0029hrs.
The investigation is ongoing.
Commissioner of Public Safety David Chong told WPCNR of the current situation:
” It is an active investigation, it looks as though at this time the victim was targeted and we don”t believe there is any threat to the community at large. Anyone with information can call Detectives at 914-422–6200 or give us information on our Public Safety Website. All information will be kept confidential.”
Commissioner Chong also forwarded information to WPCNR that the video shown on News 12 this morning showing police investigating the crime scene was not released by the White Plains Police Department.
STATE OF THE PLAGUE DEC 30 NUMBERS: : NEW WESTCHESTER POSITIVES DROP 50% FROM 7,659 TO 3,307. MID-HUDSON REGION 7 COUNTY POSITIVES FALL 62% TO 6,851. LONG ISLAND POSITIVES PLUNGE 58% TO 11,958 DECEMBER 30. NYC REPORTED 35,650 POSITIVES, DOWN 57% TO 35,650.
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WPCNR STATE OF THE PLAGUE. FROM NYS COVID TRACKER. ANALYSIS By John F. Bailey. January 3, 2021.
This afternoon will deliver a better fix on whether the shock of 7,000 new positives a day in Westchester County is over when the positives for Friday are reported.
The December 30 positive numbers issued Sunday night indicate a drop of 50% or more for Westchester, the 6 other Mid-Hudson Counties, and the runway leaders in infections Nassau and Suffolk Counties. The onslaught of new positives the first 5 days of the last week of 2021 was the highest positives a week ever during the plague. The across-board-the halfing of positives was a welcome respite in the march of covid across the metropolitan area.
New York City’s five boroughs recorded 47, 346 LESS infections than the day before December 29 when the city recorded 82,996.
If Westchester continues on the 3,000 infections a day trend it will have slightly less than 20,000 infections the last week of 2021. If positives continue declining on new Covid-19 Tracker reports the next week this will be an indicator that predictions of a covid fade in two weeks will be happening.
NEW COVID OMICRON AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY INFECTOR: DISRUPTS ALL TOWNS CITIES IN WESTCHESTER. 21,084 new cases in 5 days
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WPCNR CORONA VIRUS ANALYST. By John F. Bailey. January 2, 2021:
The 21,084 new cases of covid officially reported through Thursday December 30 have shocked every community in the county.
At 6 P.M. tonight, the Covid Tracker of New York state had Westchester with 3,307 new infections of covid testing positive December 30. It was the fifth straight day of covid positives over 3,000., down from 7,659 on December 29.
Northern towns, the rivertowns, the cities, are over their heads in new infections half way through last week with infections averaging 4, 444 a day for the first 4 days of of the last week of the year.
Where are these high infection areas? The big towns. Hundreds a Day infected.
White Plains one of the best big cities publicly responding covid stoppers through the first two years of covid has 1,411 active cases reported December 29, and 198 new positive cases that single day. Total active over last two weeks in White Plains is 236. So White Plains infections are rising.
New Rochelle is reported with 2,261 active cases with 362 new cases December 19. New Ro total cases the last two weeks 15,838.
Mount Vernon is reported with 2,520 more than New Rochelle and saw 369 new covid positives on Dec. 29.
Yonkers as it has throughout the last year has 6,463 active cases since December 15, on December 29 they saw 1,059 new covid infections! Total active cases, 41,066. A lot of still sick people there.
Port Chester is not good either. That city is reported with 712 active cases. New Covid infections December 29 were 126, and there are 6,215 active cases.
The Omicron Variant is picking off hundreds in the small suburbs which previously were under control. Those towns averaged a 100 new infections a day December 29,
Greenburgh was reported with 1,283 new active cases, with 159 reported positive on December 29 that day.
Scarsdale saw 390 new active cases the last two weeks, Covid positives December 29 numbered 50, and there are 2021 active cases in Scarsdale.
Harrison reported 841 active cases. On December 29, 107 were infected.
Eastchester: 577 new Actives. 80 New on the 29th
Rye City and Rye Brook hit a combined 82 new people testing covid on December 29.
Mamaroneck Town and Village recorded 787 new actives 124 new covids on the 29th with 3,455 cumulative cases
Larchmont saw 157 new active cases, with 15 positive on the 29th.
Mount Pleasant under control throughout most of the year saw 784 new active cases reporting the last two weeks to December 15, 117 new covid cases on December 29 alone,
North and New Castle stunned with 800 new Active Cases (400 a week) , 104 cases alone on the 29th.
Northern reaches of the county were not spared. Their infection rates are still peaking.
Cortlandt reported an astounding 831 infections from the 15th to 29th of December. On the 29th 158 tested positive
Yorktown had a stunner—1,252 Active cases (over 500 a week) 961 still active. The Dec. 29 number of new cases reported: 209
Somers a very small population, was recorded with 652 Active Cases, 108 reported on Dec. 29. And they have 3,368 cases
Mount Kisco reported 268 New Active cases. 48 on the 29th of December
Peekskill has been growing in infections. The reported with 490 new active cases, 117 on the December 29 date.
Bedford surprised with a report of 433 new active cases approaching Peekskill a city. Bedford saw 84 of those positives test covid Decemner 29.
The Rivertowns averaged 200 new active cases the last two weeks
Ossining reported 186 in the two weeks. 34 on December 29
The Tarrytowns saw 505 new Actives, with 98, reported December 29.
Hastings a small town by comparison reported 195, 28 on December 29.
Dobbs Ferry on the upswing was reported with 261 new active cases, 40 found positive on the 29th.
Briarcliff Manor was close with 174 new actives, 25 covid positive on the 29th
If that average holds for the last three days of the year official reports the county may see 30,000 new cases in one week. Every town is at risk, and looming large is the hospitalization capacity for so many new cases ( 3 times the previous high of new cases in one day –1,100, and 17,777 in a half a week.
The is having major implications for school districts about returning to school in the classroom. White Plains at this point is planning in school learning, but New Rochelle and Yonkers is planning remote learning for the first week of school after return
(the NY State covid tracker, we remind you is on a 2-day reporting delay, so December 30, 31, January 1 new cases for the county are not reported as of the 4:45 P.M. hour.
The Omicron variant is being profiled by medical analysts as being a fast spreader, but not as serious a disease because it affects the upper area of the breathing system: airpipe, throat and nasel areas, and does not take over the lungs, meaning cases of the 17,777 new persons testing positive through midweek will not get as sick or hospitalized.
Let us hope so. However, the British researchers point out that cases in the UK involve more younger people, and the U.S. population is older, meaning that omicron may be more serious for the U.S. population.
Nonetheless, the disease is not being controlled at all by the persons most able to control spread the citizens of Westchester County.
Pleas for public safety and vaccination firsts shots by public officials have been ignored by many, Westchester being only 72% fully vaccinated a week ago and the results show town by town on the Westchester Dashboard Covid Tracker.
The Perfect Tree Departs
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WPCNR The Sunday Bailey. News & Comment by John F. Bailey. January 2, 2022:
This is one of the saddest days of the year.
Brenda Starr always insists we take the Christmas Tree down.
I remember years ago we kept a tree up in our apartment until February because we did not want to take it down. We eventually eased the tree off the terrace of our Tarrytown apartment over the railing and into the parking lot below because the needles were dropping so much it would have made a trail of pine needles down the carpeted hall to the elevator through the luxury lobby. I felt that might have gotten us evicted.
But now we are much more on a schedule. Bridge on line. Reading the daily book quota. Writing up the news. Feeding the demanding cat on her (the cat’s) schedule, The tree has to go out today because of my schedule during the week.
The last day of the two week holiday is by the decree of the editor, Ms. Starr has to be reserved for UN-decorating the tree.
Taking the lights off. Extricating the tree from its stand and pushing it out the backdoor.
The tree was so perfect and congenial this year. Perfect shape. Highly hospital every evening during mandatory Netflixing, Britboc, Acorn, and Amazon Prime video watching.
But then, every husband, boyfriend, or significant other who picks the tree always picks the perfect tree.
As I wrote two weeks ago, a Christmas Tree is like your wife, you know her when you first see her.
The tree is happy to be selected. It adapts to whatever holiday frivolities are placed upon it.
The highlight of every pinetree’s short life is being selected to be a Christmas Tree.
The tree never wants to leave your home, and you are always sad to be removing the bulbs, the icicles, ornaments of long ago. The pictures of children when they were young.
The Christmas Tree when fully decorated is a work of art of the memories of your life, good times, how you felt at different times of your years as a family. It is the Ghost of Christmas Past and Christmas Today.
In an uncanny alchemy of feelings and memories, looking at the decorations takes you back in time and parents, grandparents, doting aunts and uncles, once more are with you whenever you look at the ornaments you have hung.
When we gradually removed them today, I removed the bulbs and, Ms. Starr put them away (she is very organized) in their old cardboard boxes. When I broke one, she said I was removing them carelessly prompting a spat. But I pointed out it was still hangable next year.
When you get to be my age you do not know if this is your last Christmas Tree, so each year I pick one out, I enjoy the process and the decorating, the specialness of the season and the choosing of my gifts with care.
The socializing we all used to enjoy decades ago still remains fresh in our memories.
But, because of the relentless palor of the spread of covid now engulfing our community. We could not see friends as we usually do.
We saw our children. Which is always a pleasure because they do not live far away.
Now on this last day of the Christmas Tree, this muted Merry, not jolly Christmas, the tree made the season.
When I was trying to lift the tree, still standard stalwart and shining down to just its natural coat of branches, it seemed particularly hard to lift out of its stand.
Despite all screws of the stand being unfastened, it seemed to be hanging onto the stand with its stalwart sturdy stump. I kept gently trying to lift it out of the stand three times.
Still it would not release the stand.
On my next try, I embraced the tree.
It seemed to embrace me back.
It lifted out easily.
It was saying goodbye.
I will miss it.
The perfect tree was departing after another perfect Christmas.
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IN WESTCHESTER, NEW CASES DOUBLE FROM 3,602 TUESDAY TO 7,659 DEC 29. 41,656 CASES IN THE 7 MID HUDSON COUNTIES IN 4 DAYS DEC 16-29. WESTCHESTER COVID-INFECTED PERSONS SPREADING DISEASE TO 8 PERSONS FOR EACH NEW INFECTION TWO WEEKS AGO. SPREAD DOUBLING. LONG ISLAND HITS 28,000 NEW POSITIVES IN ONE DAY– UP 50%. NEW YORK 5 BOROUGHS RECORD 83,000 NEW CASES, UP 52%
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WPCNR CORONAVIRUS MONITOR. Derived from the Coronavirus Workbook updated as of 4:15 P.M Saturday. Observations by John F. Bailey. January 1, 2022:
Covid new infections are sweeping Westchester County and the 6 other counties in Mid-Hudson Valley and doubling number of infections in Long Island and all of New York City. New York City went from 43,135 new positives last Tuesday to 82,996 on Wednesday. (The Covid Workbook is reports two days behind in results..)
Westchester County doubled the number of positive covid persons in one day, going from 3,602 positives Tuesday to 7,659 Wednesday, a 46.1% increase in our county. This is a disturbing development.
Infections are out of control in Orange and Rockland Counties through Wednesday, too. Orange doubled new cases to 3,394 compared to 1,624 on Tuesday. Rockland doubled in new covid cases jumping from 1,536 to 3,212. Dutchess lept from 722 Tuesday to 1,560 Wednesday, also doubling covid new cases. Putnam came close to double new positives, going from519 cases Tuesday to 1,039. A startling increase there Putnam, 45.2 %.. Ulster and Sulivan counties continued the trend up 31% and 43.4%.
NASSAU COUNTY had 44.6% more positives, 15,062, while SUFFOLK was recorded for a 53.9% in crease to 12,350.
The Washington Post yesterday reported that cases in South Africa showed persons not getting ill as seriously from the Omicron variant ( attributed to be more contagious and highly responsible for the remarkable surge in covid infections). The Post also reported the omicron positive patients in South African experienced lower rates of hospitalizatins. A New York Times article published today said that United Kingdom has found in studies on mice and hamsters the omicron variant infects more the throat and windpipe, rather than going deep into the lungs.
However mostly young people were infected who are better equipped to fight the disease. With the U.S. having an older population the infections may afflict the population more seriously. It was predicted the virus may go down in infections in about two weeks.
However it should be noted that the infections are seriously spreading at the rate of 8 persons being infected by every one person testing positive two weeks ago in Westchester County.
Two weeks ago on December 15, Westchester had 938 new cases. If you divide 7,650 new infections on December 29, by 938, you get considering this week infections so far, 7,650 Wednesday in Westchester. Those persons could bring us more infections approaching 62,000 persons by the end of the week January 9 to 15.
If hosptializations continue at the 125 person rate as it was a week ago, this means these 7,650 in cases in Westchester if they continue to be less seriously ill may only generate a 13% hospitalization rate but that still would mean 972 hospitalizations of those 7650. The 972 would not threaten Westchester available beds capacity if hospitalizations continued to go up slowly.
But if hospitalizations go up as they seem be doing, 50 a month ago compared to 125 as of a week ago and the omicron infects us more seriously, the positive spread rate may quickly fill up Westchester County bed capacity. Consider that the 7650 total is only one day of infections! If they all everyday hospitalized at the 124 rate we will have close to 6,000 a week in hospitalizations. by the end of January 15.
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NOW TO SCOOP THE NEWS DUCK OUR FLYING REPORTER IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE WHITE PLAINS WEEK SKY SUITE REPORTING
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WESTCHESTER NEW CASES HIT ALL TIME SINGLE DAY COVID RECORD DEC. 28 (TUESDAY): 3,606 AND RISING. COULD TOTAL 22,000 IN LAST WEEK OF YEAR.
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WPCNR CORONA VIRUS MONITOR. From the NEW YORK COVIDTRACKER. Observations by John F. Bailey. December 31, 2021:
The Covid Tracker (reporting Tuesday, December 29 covid cases) in Westchester recorded the third straight day of covid positives well over 3,000 new cases: 3,602. It was the third consecutive rise in Westchester covids rising steadily over 3,000 cases.
Since Sunday the day Westchester reported 3, 108 new cases for the first time ever, Monday has seen 3,408, and Tuesday, 3,602. At this steady rising rate, Westchester may see 20,000 new cases of covid by Sunday.
Nassau and Suffolk counties sustained their steady rise in covid for the fifth straight day to total 13,893 new person with covid Tuesday twice the number of cases in all 7 counties in the Mid-Hudson region. Nassau: 7,346. Suffolk County: 6,547.
The Washington Post reported though the Omicron variant given the reason for the record cases nationwide, was that the outbreak should only last two weeks and rapidly fade. Additionally the Washington Post reported that vaccinated victims are not getting as seriously sick. This optimistic view of the record spread of the Omicron variant is based on the reports of how the Omicron variant has performed in South Africa.
WPCNR notes that hospitalizations the last week in Westchester County have been running at 50% of new cases first infected two weeks ago, resulting in 125 hospitalizations reported last Friday. Howver, the latest Westchester County information as of Tuesday, according to County Execution George Latimer, 2 of every 3 of those hospitalized are not vaccinated.
Westchester Countuy reported 8,475 new positives Tuesday among 38,531 tested, a 22.8% Infection rate in one day of testing. Orange and Rockland Counties grew about a 100 new positives a day Tuesday. Totals for the last two days of 2021, including today should be available Sunday.
The 7 Counties in the Mid-Hudson region and Nassau and Suffolk combined for 32,368 new positive covid cases compared to New York City (all 5 boroughs) new cases of 43,135.