Murders are never easy to solve, but when it’s the FBI and the New York police department, they won’t give up despite all odds. Six years after Ana Delvalle, 62, and Basil Gray, 54, were brutally murdered in their Bushwick Houses apartments, NYPD detectives are still searching for their murderers. Hoping that this time the killers are caught and justice is served.
The duo who were killed were neighbors. Delvalle, a retired seamstress and a mother, and Grey, who lived on the fifth floor at 140 Moore Street, were known for reporting crime in the area. On the morning of May 11, 2018, both citizens were found dead after being shot in their apartments.
As per the New York Times, police believe Gray was killed first, after which Ana Delvalle was found with a massager cord and shot three times with a 9mm gun. Cops said that she may have seen Gray’s death and then died right after the confrontation. Ana Delvalle’s daughter recalled how she found her mother’s body lying there as she returned at 10 am, just two days before Mother’s Day.
“I saw her on the floor,” she said. ”I threw my stuff down. I thought she fell and hit her head. There was blood around her head. It was so surreal. At that point, I grabbed her and noticed the hole by her ear.”
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As per FBI, currently, the murder has been revisited by detectives Marisol Bonilla and Armando Saitta, and the FBI is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information that leads to an arrest in this case, as published on their website. “So basically, what we are trying to do is pretty much start over with fresh eyes and fresh ears,” Saitta said.
Back when the murders happened, there was very little cooperation. Several residents remained silent out of fear. “People living in that area are always afraid to talk,” Detective Marisol Bonilla told The Post.
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“You have to go back home to the same people who you’re snitching and ratting out.” However, both detectives feel that the residents of the Bushwick Houses, which were marked by drug activity, may feel safe to speak up now that time has passed.
Meanwhile, a blurry surveillance video from 2018 showed two men and a woman near the victims’ doors, but no arrests followed. As per the FBI, the motive behind the murders may be drug-related issues, and they were purely targeted and not random at all.
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Marisol Bonilla and Armando Saitta are trying to find the killers of the innocent victims by interviewing witnesses and reexamining evidence. We wish immense healing to the family of the deceased. Delvalle’s daughter, Mireya, who found her mother’s body, continues to seek closure. “Holidays are the hardest,” she said. “We just want justice. These people are still out there, and my mom isn’t.”
