🌱 Threats At Children's Hospital + Queens Teacher Charged

Hello, neighbors! Miranda Fraraccio here with a brand-new Queens Daily.

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Here are the top three stories today in Queens:

1. A Queens teacher was charged on Wednesday after he allegedly shoved a student against a wall and threw him to the ground, police said. According to authorities, Colin McNally, a 58-year-old physical education teacher and coach at Cardozo High School in Bayside, was arrested Wednesday after he attacked the 14-year-old boy. The teacher is charged with acting in a manner injurious to a child. According to Nathaniel Styer, press secretary for the Department of Education, he was "immediately removed from the classroom away from students, pending the outcome of the investigation." (Audacy.com)
2. According to police, a 19-year-old was struck and killed by a teen driver on Thursday while walking in front of a Jackson Heights auto-body shop. The victim, Sara Perez of East Elmhurst, was fatally struck on the sidewalk at around 4:50 p.m. when the driver entered the Northern Lube and Tire Shop at 106-15 Northern Blvd. The 16-year-old male driver was in a Ford F-150 pickup truck and stayed at the scene. (Queens Post)
3. On Thursday, police responded to a 911 call for a man making threats outside of a children's hospital. Police arrived on the scene at Cohen Children's Medical Center on 76th Avenue and searched the car of the 34-year-old suspect, Thomas Saxton, who threatened to shoot people at the hospital. Two loaded, unmarked ghost guns were retrieved in the car, and upon a search of Saxton's home, police found a slew of weapons, including nine ghost handguns, four shotguns, two rifles, two bulletproof vests, 50 extended magazines, and over 1,000 rounds of ammunition. (WABC-TV)

Today in Queens:

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From my notebook:

• Queens Theatre will present 'That Golden Girls Show!' on Feb. 20. (Facebook)
• Get ready to spot early spring bulbs and ephemerals at the Queens Botanical Garden's second monthly walking tour on Saturday, March 19. (Facebook)
• Attention, Rockaway. Proposals stemming from the Resilient Edgemere plan are on the docket at the next Land Use Public Hearing on Feb. 24 at 9:30 a.m. (Facebook)

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— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander. She works as a staff writer for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and is a graduate of The University of Rhode Island, where she earned a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies. In her free time, you can find her traveling, hiking, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.