4 charged with attempted murder after Belmont argument

BY REID J. EPSTEIN

An argument between two groups at Belmont Park escalated into gunshots Saturday night, leading to attempted murder charges against three adults and a teenager from Queens, Nassau Police said Sunday.

After the argument at Belmont, one group left the park in a car and waited for the second group to leave.

As the second group walked across Hempstead Turnpike toward Wellington Road, the first group drove toward them and fired six times from a semi-automatic handgun, police said.

Nassau Police chased the first group westbound on Hempstead Turnpike and arrested them on 233rd Street in Queens Village, police said.

Jeff Desir, 23, of Queens Village, Shereece Codner, 20, of Jamaica, Christopher Wallace, 23, of St. Albans, and Rood Alvarez, 15, of Queens Village, are each charged with four counts of second-degree attempted murder, police said.

Wallace, who police say was the shooter, is also charged with reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a weapon and criminal use of a firearm.

Each of the suspects are scheduled to be arraigned Monday at First District Court in Hempstead.

The victims, two boys, 17, another boy, 16, and a girl, 14, were struck by the gunfire and taken to local hospitals with nonlife threatening injuries, police said.

By REID j. EPSTEIN
Posted Monday, April 20, 2009

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