Slain New York City medic was stabbed more than a dozen times, officials say
FDNY members salute FDNY Emergency Medical Service Lieutenant Alison Russo-Elling during her dignified transfer. Lieutenant Alison Russo-Elling was stabbed and killed, Sept. 29, 2022, while working at EMS Station 49 in Queens, N.Y.The veteran emergency medical worker who was killed in Queens, New York was stabbed approximately 19 times in the chest in an apparently random attack, officials said.
"In one moment, just a short time away from her planned retirement, in one moment a lifetime of work came crashing to an end," Chief of EMS Lillian Bonsignore said. "Tragically, she did not have the ability to retire," added FDNY Deputy Chief Greg Brady. "Twenty-four years. Did not have the ability to retire.""Lt. Russo is the second EMS woman, second mother, second EMS member to be murdered on these streets in the last five years," Bonsignore said.They show Russo walking past 34-year-old Peter Zisopoulos, who was standing in the doorway of a building.
According to the footage, he chased away an eyewitness who attempted to intervene, the knife still in his hand, before retreating to his apartment, where he barricaded himself before being taken into custody.Zisopoulos was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon and has not yet been arraigned. He has no prior arrests and no connection to the victim.Copyright © 2022 ABC News Internet Ventures.
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