🌱 Woman Shot In New Hyde Park Garage, Police Searching For Shooter

Happy Saturday, people of Five Towns! Here's everything you need to know to start today off on an informed note, shall we? Here's what's going on today in town.

First, today's weather:

Breezy in the morning. High: 52 Low: 44.

Here are the top three stories in Five Towns today:

1. Police are searching Friday for the person who fatally shot a 33-year-old female Northwell Health worker at a parking garage in New Hyde Park on Thursday night. They believe Amelia Laguerre of St. Albans was targeted. (News 12)
2. Tickets to see Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli in his first-ever concert at UBS Arena in Elmont go on sale April 11. The show will be on Dec. 13. (Patch)
3. Valley Stream North High School’s literary magazine “The North Star” won three Adelphi Press Day Quill Awards. The student magazine took first place in the Best Visual category for Kimberly Shrestha’s illustration, “The Magical Library.” (LI Herald)

Today in Five Towns:

• ACT In-District, Woodmere Middle School, Hewlett High School, 8 a.m.
• Meet Your Candidates on Radio, Special Assembly Candidates Eric “Ari” Brown and David Lobl talk with Cindy Grosz, 9 a.m.
• Hewlett Theater Company Spring Play, Hewlett High School, 7 p.m.

From my notebook:

• Dr. Chid Iloabachie, associate chair of emergency medicine at Long Island Jewish Valley Stream Hospital, said that anyone eligible for the second COVID-19 booster should get it. (Patch)
• Asian grocer 99 Ranch Market’s first store in New York State will open April 9 at Samanea New York, formerly The Mall at the Source, in Westbury. (Subscription: Newsday)
• A former Uber driver acquitted of kidnapping will serve a 60-day jail sentence and three years of probation for child endangerment for hitting on a 15-year-old passenger from Merrick in 2019. Sean Williams, 34, of Brooklyn, drove her to Brooklyn before she escaped at a McDonald's. (Subscription: Newsday)

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Alrighty, you're all good for today. I'll see you soon!

— Jackie