Uncoached (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
This is one of those borderline “Embarrassed to Play” songs, but damnet if I wasn’t grooving out to this song this morning. It just reminds me of all that is good in this world. You know something Patrick Hernandez? We ARE born to be alive. We are born to shake it. We [...]
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Don't put big families in small housesI would like to know why the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) is not allocating houses based on the numerical needs of the applicants. For example, I've known of many instances where entire families consisting of four, five, six and even more members are given two-bedroom houses, while families consisting of just two individuals (husband and wife) are given...
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
No one can say what ignited the violence, what cost Patrick Hernandez his young life and Karon Lenihan his freedom. But both their mothers were left to mourn - one in a Brooklyn cemetery, the other in a Rikers Island visitors' room.
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Police believed that 17-year-old Karon Lenihan shot another teen over a long-held grudge . Patrick Hernandez, a Far Rockaway High graduate who was headed to SUNY Cortland, had been walking back from cleaning up a local beach on Thursday morning when Lenihan allegedly jumped out of a car and shot Hernandez in the chest. While the nature of Lenihan's grudge against Hernandez is unclear, the victim's...
WCBSTV.com: Your Source For New Yor (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Police are still trying to figure out why someone would gun down a star high school football player and honor roll student in Queens on Thursday morning. Patrick Hernandez was shot and killed just blocks away from his family's home in Queens. His life was just about to take off.
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
An 18-year-old graduate of Far Rockaway High was fatally shot on Beach 16th Street yesterday morning. The Daily News reports Patrick Hernandez, who had played on the high school football team and was headed to SUNY Cortland this fall, "had spent the morning helping clean up a local beach and was walking home with his brother" when a shooter jumped out of a car and fired at him. The police are speaking...
NYDailyNews (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Patrick Hernandez was just months from escaping the violent streets of his Queens neighborhood for college when a shotgun blast took his life Thursday.
