🌱 Hewlett Harbor Man Who Shot Parents Indicted + Store Robbery

Good day, people of Five Towns! It's me again, your host of the Five Towns Daily.

First, today's weather:

Clouds giving way to some sun. High: 45 Low: 30.

Here are the top three stories today in Five Towns:

1. Dino Tomassetti, who allegedly shot his parents in their Hewlett Harbor home on Christmas Day, was indicted on Monday. The charges were: two counts of second-degree attempted murder, two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, two counts of second-degree assault and endangering the welfare of the child. (LI Herald)
2. Three people robbed a store and attacked a clerk in Bellerose Terrace on Saturday morning.
   Police are looking for information about two men and one woman who entered It's Lit Smoke Shop, at 225-06 Jamaica Ave. and assaulted an employee. (Patch)
3. Hempstead Town is using a $300,000 state grant to try to increase the oyster population at Inwood Marina. The section of Jamaica Bay, which borders Kennedy Airport, has been affected by years of pollution and efforts in recent years have added 50,000 needed oysters so far. (Subscription: Newsday)

Today in Five Towns:

• Woodmere Middle School History Fair, Hewlett-Woodmere schools.
• Hewlett-Woodmere Superintendent's Roundtable, Hewlett Fire Department, 7 p.m.

From my notebook:

• New York is currently reporting the lowest rates of COVID-19 infections since the emergence of the omicron variant in November. (News 12)
• The New York Times talks to preservationists about the loss of a Marcel Breuer-designed postwar modern house in Lawrence. (The New York Times)
• The Temple Beth El’s Men’s Club will sponsor a “World Wide Wrap” (Learning to Lay Tefillin) event on Feb. 13, Super Bowl Sunday, at 9 a.m. via Zoom. (LI Herald)

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