Felix, charged with kidnapping and 2nd-degree murder, was sentenced to 15-years-to-life in prison. July 17, 2014 – Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black man on Staten Island, died after a chokehold was applied to him during a confrontation with police over selling untaxed cigarettes. The incident, captured on cellphone video, showed that the asthmatic Garner had repeatedly called out "I can't breathe!" The case attracted national attention as it occurred three weeks before the equally racially tinged shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. A grand jury declined to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the officer involved. November 17, 2014 – Murder of Wai Kuen Kwok – Kwok, 61, of Asian descent, was pushed onto an incoming "D" train at 167th Street station. The prepreator, 36-year-old African-American Kevin Darden, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in a plea deal after initially facing 25 years to life in prison. Darden was a habitual offender that had previously been arrested 50 times. The sentence was criticised by both Kwok's family and James Muriel, the subway motorman who was at the controls of the train that struck Kwok, who stated that the incident destroyed his state of mind. Kwok's death in 2014 meant that the last three victims killed in NYC by being pushed into subway tracks since 2012 were all Asian-American men. November 20, 2014 – A 28-year-old Brooklyn man, Akai Gurley, was shot dead by rookie NYPD officer Peter Liang during a "vertical patrol" on the staircases of Louis H. Pink housing projects in East New York. Liang was convicted of manslaughter in February 2016; he is currently appealing the verdict. December 20, 2014 – A gunman killed two NYPD officers and then himself in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. May 2, 2015 – Police officer Brian Moore was shot in Queens by Demetrius Blackwell after Moore and his partner asked Blackwell to stop while walking down the street; Moore died in the hospital two days later. Blackwell was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. May 17, 2015 – Rapper Chinx and another were wounded in a drive-by shooting along Queens Boulevard; he died at the hospital later. The killing remains unsolved. August 2, 2016 – Murder of Karina Vetrano – Karina Vetrano went for a late afternoon run in Spring Creek Park. Her body was found around 11 pm, with evidence of assault and was ruled a homicide. Chanel Lewis