“No matter what was going on, she had a smile.” She always greeted you with a smile,” he said. The victim would call everyone “cookie,” he added. “I call it growing up on the job - you come in as babies and you develop up.” Mike Daddona of EMS Station 58 in Canarsie, Brooklyn, recalled, “We grew up together on the job. The mom, who had an adult daughter and worked out of Astoria and lived on Long Island, “was about six or seven months away from retirement,” said Vincent Variale, president of Local 3621 - adding that she was a “very brave” worker. Russo-Elling, a 25-year veteran of the department, was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition but could not be saved, police said. Alison Russo-Elling at Mount Sinai Hospital. “He just walked toward her, sped up and then stabbed her to death.”Įmergency workers honor fallen Lt. “At this point in the investigation, there doesn’t appear to have been any prior contact between them,” an FDNY source said. Officials did not give details about what sparked the violence, but authorities said the attack was “unprovoked.” Suspect Peter Zisopoulos, 34, has been charged with her murder, authorities said Friday. The mom - described by her union as “the sweetest, kindest person you’ve ever met” - was on duty at the time and was about a half-block from her unit, Station 49, on the sidewalk when she was attacked, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said. In horrific surveillance footage from the scene, Russo-Elling is knocked to the ground by a knife-wielding madman, who proceeds to stab her repeatedly as she lies helpless on the concrete. 11, 2001, was stabbed more than 20 times by an assailant at 20th Avenue and 41st Street around 2:20 p.m., police said. Alison Russo-Elling, a 61-year-old grandma and department veteran who was a World Trade Center responder on Sept. Salman Rushdie’s agent reveals author’s permanent injuries after attackĪ beloved FDNY lieutenant was stabbed by a maniac on a Queens street Thursday afternoon in an unprovoked attack that occurred as she went to grab food, authorities said. Man, 33, stabbed in both legs in Greenwich Village Girl, 15, stabbed in the hip during fight with another teen in East Harlemġ4-year-old stabbed on NYC train in new subway violence
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