EGN NEWS DESK
Mayor Eric Adams appeared unaware that his NYPD detectives had nabbed David Bonola, the person accused of stabbing to loss of life Queens mother Orsolya Gaal when Hizzoner spoke to reporters Thursday — greater than an hour after police introduced the bust and hours after The Post and different shops reported it.
“Are there any developments on that case?” a reporter requested Adams at an unrelated 12:30 p.m. public occasion at Bellevue Hospital.
The mayor started by calling the slaying “horrific.”
“You know, it was a horrific incident. What do I know?” he mentioned. “We will discover him. We will discover the particular person accountable and they are going to be held accountable for his or her actions.
“This was a horrific murder from what I was told,” Adams added. “But we will find the person responsible. Our detectives are on the ground. The commissioner has been updating me every day, and I believe we’re going to apprehend the person.”
According to police, who introduced the arrest at 11:15 a.m., David Bonola, 44, was questioned by cops on the 112th Precinct station home in Forest Hills on Wednesday evening and in the end confessed to the grisly slaying.
He was charged earlier on Thursday.
City Hall spokesman Fabien Levy insisted Adams was advised at 7 a.m. Thursday that cops had a suspect in custody — however, were not advised of the morning press briefing on the fees.
Fabien mentioned earlier Thursday that Adams additionally didn’t need to “step on” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell’s anticipated announcement of the arrest.
“He spoke to the commissioner multiple times today,” Levy mentioned. “She’s on the first conference call every day. …. He was briefed before 12:30.”
The mayor’s obvious gaffe got here simply sooner or later after he raised eyebrows by skipping funeral companies for Kade Lewin, a 12-year-old boy shot useless in East Flatbush on March 31 whereas sitting in a parked minivan — regardless of expressing outrage after that incident.
“Whose child is next?” Adams shouted after the taking pictures as he clutched the teenager’s sneakers, standing alongside his household. “Those who took their lives will be found.”
Police mentioned no arrests have been made for the boy’s loss of life.
Adams mentioned a while Wednesday that he was 10 minutes from the church for Lewin’s service when he realized he had a gathering with civil rights leaders on gun violence.
