DEVELOPING STORY – Update (Monday, 9 am) – Orangetown Police Department was notified that one of the victims, Caneggio A. Grant, 30 years of age, from Nanuet, NY has died from injuries sustained in this incident.
UPDATE from the Orangetown Police Department
On March 6th 2021 at about 10:50 p.m. the Orangetown Police Department responded to a report of shots fired at the above listed location. At about the same time, Orangetown Police received a report that two stabbing victims had come to the Emergency Department of Montefiore/Nyack Hospital. One of these victims was then transferred to Westchester Medical Center.
Subsequent investigation determined that there was a large fight inside the restaurant which resulted in the stabbings. As people fled the scene, several shots were fired, but there were no reported injuries.
The investigation is ongoing and the department does not anticipate any further statements at this time.
Anyone who may have witnessed the incident or may have additional information is asked to call the Orangetown Police at 845.359.3700.
The Orangetown Police Department was assisted by the Rockland County Sheriff’s Office, Clarkstown Police, Ramapo Police, New York State Police and the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office.
Just after midnight, an RPD officer spotted a vehicle driving without headlights and committing several traffic violations. The motorist was found to be nearly three times over the legal alcohol limit. The driver, a resident of Nyack, NY, was arrested for DWI and issued 9 tickets. The case is set to return to Ramapo Justice Court.
Rockland County District Attorney Thomas E. Walsh II announced today that Jose Quizhpi, 48 of Queens, New York was indicted by a Rockland County Grand Jury on eight counts of Attempted Disseminating Indecent Material to Minors in the First Degree (PL Sec. 110.00/235.22), two counts of Attempted Rape in the Third Degree (PL Sec. 110.00/130.25(4), 110.00/130.25(5)) and one count of Attempted Endangering the Welfare of a Child (PL Sec. 110.00/260.10(1)).
On or about and between November 5, 2024, and November 17, 2024, the defendant exchanged numerous text messages, photographs, and videos, which were sexually explicit in nature, with a female child who he met online and whom he believed to be 15 years old. In fact, the defendant was communicating with an undercover investigator from the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office who was posing as a 15-year-old female child. Quizhpi planned to meet with the 15-year-old child to engage in sexual acts with her at a movie theater in The Town of Clarkstown. Quizhpi arrived at the theater and was apprehended.
This undercover investigation was led by the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office Special Investigations and Special Victims Unit with the assistance of the Clarkstown Police Department and Homeland Security Investigations.
It should be noted that a criminal complaint is merely an accusation, and a defendant should be presumed innocent until proven guilty.