A Murder In Williamsburg

WILLIAMSBURG – A 25-year-old man was shot to death over the weekend at Williamsburg Houses.

On Saturday, November 2 at around 12:24 a.m., 25-year-old Justin Rolon was found unconscious and unresponsive with gunshot wounds to the torso in front of 218 Maujer Street. He was taken to NYC Health & Hospitals/Woodhull where he died. Cops have deemed it a homicide. He lived just a block away on 184 Maujer Street. According to the Daily News, Rolon was a gang member of the Latin Kings and had been arrested 28 times in his life.

As of today, no arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).  The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577. All calls are strictly confidential.