Also Pinched For Previous Robbery
Detectives slapped the cuffs on a Ridgewood man on Monday, Sept. 29, for allegedly stabbing and robbing a livery cab driver in the neighborhood four days earlier, it was announced.
Law enforcement sources identified the suspect as 41-yearold Kenneth Suden (at right) of 60th Street.
Reportedly, Suden repeatedly knifed a 30-year-old cab driver early last Thursday morning, Sept. 25, on 70th Avenue between 60th Lane and 60th Street, then took off inside the victim’s taxi, a 2012 Toyota Camry.
Authorities said the victim was hospitalized in critical but stable condition. Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown stated the victim suffered several lacerations, a collapsed lung, a severed stomach and a severed liver as a result of the attack; he has undergone multiple surgeries.
Officers additionally linked Suden to a holdup at a Ridgewood grocery store the previous night, Sept. 24.
In that incident, law enforcement sources stated, Suden entered the shop located at the corner of Putnam and Fairview avenues between 6:30 and 7:15 p.m. last Wednesday evening. He reportedly walked behind the counter, brandished a knife at a clerk and demanded cash, claiming “They’re going to kill me if I don’t pay them back.”
Suden reportedly removed cash from the register and fled from the scene.
According to police, the taxi robbery occurred at around 1:11 a.m. last Thursday, moments after the cabbie picked up the perpetrator at the corner of Hemlock Street and Jamaica Avenue in Cypress Hills.
Upon entering the vehicle, Suden reportedly asked the driver to take him to a home on 60th Street near 68th Road.
While moving along 70th Avenue, police said, the driver and Suden allegedly got into a verbal dispute. After stopping in front of a 70th Avenue home, it was reported, the suspect pulled out a knife and repeatedly stabbed the driver about the torso, arm and hands.
During the attack, law enforcement sources noted, Suden pushed the driver out of the cab, then drove away in an unknown direction.
Members of the 104th Precinct and EMS units responded to the scene. Paramedics brought the injured driver to Elmhurst Hospital Center.
Based on information obtained during the investigation, members of the 104th Precinct Detective Squad booked Suden on Monday on charges of attempted murder, robbery, felony assault, grand larceny auto and criminal possession of a weapon.
The DA’s Career Criminal Major Crimes Bureau, supervised by Assistant District Attorneys James W. Evangelou, bureau chief, and Robert J. Hanophy, deputy bureau chief, is assigned to prosecute the case.
