18 Months Later, NYPD Pushed To Serve Misconduct Charges on Officers Alongi and Cianfrocco for Killing Bangladeshi Teen, Win Rozario

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18 Months Later, NYPD Pushed To Serve Misconduct Charges on Officers Alongi and Cianfrocco for Killing Bangladeshi Teen, Win Rozario

New York, NY - Today, the NYPD formally served the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s (CCRB) misconduct charges on officers Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco for killing Win Rozario in March 2024. The Bangladeshi teenager was safe at home until NYPD officers Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco arrived. Alongi and Cianfrocco recklessly shot Win five times in less than two minutes of entering the apartment, as his mother pleaded for the officers not to shoot - endangering the lives of Win’s mother and younger brother in the process.

While the CCRB ruled last week that the officers engaged in serious misconduct, including excessive force and abuse of authority, there was growing concern amongst police accountability groups and others that the NYPD would try to block commencement of discipline proceedings against the officers, especially given the NYPD’s history of obstruction and delays related to discipline proceedings of officers in other high profile police killings, including Eric Garner, Kawaski Trawick, Allan Feliz and more. 

News that charges were delivered came in the late afternoon, after a morning protest held by Win Rozario’s family, the Justice Committee, Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), elected officials and others at NYPD headquarters, calling for Commissioner Tisch and Mayor Adams to ensure that charges were delivered before an important 18-month deadline next week. A group of almost forty city and state elected officials also sent a letter to the commissioner and mayor, urging them to “move forward without delay or obstruction, so that New Yorkers and Win’s family do not have to wait another year for closure and action.” 

In response to the news that charges were served on Alongi and Cianfrocco, Notan Eva Costa, the mother of Win Rozario, issued the following statement: “I’m relieved to hear that the NYPD has done the right thing and served the CCRB’s charges, but I wish me and my family and so many others didn’t have to fight to make that happen. The truth is Alongi and Cianfrocco should already have been fired and it’s painful that we still have the whole discipline process ahead of us. I hope this means the NYPD won’t try to play tricks in the months ahead and that Alongi and Cianfrocco are fired as soon as possible. Without Win this past year and a half, I have felt like I lost a part of myself. I am fighting for Win and all New Yorkers so that all our children get a chance to grow up. Young people struggling with mental health issues should not live in fear of being killed by the NYPD.”

Loyda Colon (they/them), Executive Director of the Justice Committee and a representative of the family shared: “The facts related to the NYPD murder of Win Rozario, a teenager who was safe in his home prior to Alongi & Cianfrocco’s arrival are clear. Commissioner Tisch did the right thing by making sure the CCRB’s misconduct charges were served but we shouldn’t have had to fight to ensure this would happen. Now, a discipline trial date must be set so Alongi & Cianfrocco can be fired - and Attorney General James must indict and prosecute them. Anything less sends the message that NYPD officers can kill with impunity - and that families like Win’s must bear the brunt. “

Sherry Padilla (she/her), Organizer with Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM) said: “For too long, the lack of accountability for NYPD officers has fueled the recklessness we saw in the murder of Win Rozario. The serving of the charges substantiated by the CCRB on Alongi and Cianfrocco is a welcome step, but only possible because the Rozario family and others fought relentlessly for it. The gap left in the Rozario family by Win’s absence can never be filled. All the more important that the remaining steps of firing and prosecution go through so that the family has even a bare opportunity to move forward.”

Luna Droubi (she/her), Partner, Beldock Levine and Hoffman, said:"NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch's service of the charges is a step in the right direction towards ending the culture of impunity that has persisted in the NYPD. I hope this leads to accountability, but I know it won't lead to justice, because if we could have justice, Mr. Rozario would be alive with his family."

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BACKGROUND

On March 27, 2024, teenager Win Rozario was killed in front of his mother and younger brother in his family’s Ozone Park apartment by NYPD Officers Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco. Officers Alongi and Cianfrocco recklessly shot Win at least five times in less than two minutes of entering the apartment, as his mother pleaded for the officers not to shoot. Alongi & Cianfrocco violated numerous NYPD protocols, including when they tased Win without warning while he was standing still with nothing in his hands, chaotically escalating the crisis that they had created without properly taking steps to de-escalate in spite of sufficient time to do so, and shooting Win while his mother and younger brother were nearby, endangering their lives.  

Immediately following the shooting, NYPD officers forced Win’s mother and younger brother to go to the precinct to be interrogated, preventing them from accompanying Win to the hospital. Ms. Costa was questioned at length without counsel before being told her son had died, and Win’s 17-year-old brother was also interrogated alone. NYPD officers blocked re-entry to the Rozario family’s home for more than two days, refusing the family’s requests to retrieve belongings, access medications, or even to have someone feed their cat.

For over a month after Win Rozario was killed, the NYPD blocked transparency, including refusing to release the names of the officers involved. Alongi and Cianfrocco’s names were first publicly identified by the Attorney General’s Office when they released officer body camera footage on May 3, 2024. Mayor Adams’ first and only public statements regarding the killing were issued only after the Attorney General released body camera footage, over five weeks after Win was killed, after he was questioned by press. After being questioned by reporters, Mayor Adams falsely claimed that he had reached out to the family after the incident and that discipline would have to wait until after the Attorney General’s investigation concluded with a determination, which has never been accurate.

For the past year and a half, Win Rozario’s family, along with the Justice Committee, Desis Rising Up & Moving and others have called for the NYPD to fire – and for the NYS Attorney General to prosecute – NYPD officers Alongi and Cianfrocco. Win’s family is also calling for police to be removed from the city’s mental health response. Win Rozario’s mother wrote about the year since Win was killed and the NYPD’s mistreatment of her family in a March 2025 Daily News Op-Ed. 

On September 19, the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) substantiated eight misconduct allegations  against officers Alongi and Cianfrocco, including excessive force and abuse of authority. The CCRB filed “charges and specifications” with the NYPD against Alongi and Cianfrocco– the highest class of discipline against officers, reflecting the severity of misconduct. The NYPD is responsible for officially serving the CCRB’s charges on the officers, to formally commence disciplinary proceedings. 

The NYPD’s Force Investigation Division (FID) was required to investigate the killing, but the family has received no information or updates from Mayor Adams or the NYPD about their mandated investigation since Win was killed in March of 2024. The New York State Attorney General is also investigating the killing.

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About the Justice Committee:

Since the 1980s, the Justice Committee (JC) has been dedicated to building a movement against police violence and systemic racism in New York City. The heart of our work is organizing and uplifting the leadership of families who have lost loved ones to the police and survivors of police violence. We empower our community to deter police violence, hold law enforcement accountable, and build people-led community safety through grassroots organizing campaigns, community empowerment, political education, our CopWatch program, and by developing safety mechanisms and projects that decrease reliance on police. By building solidarity with other anti-racist, immigrant and people of color-led organizations, the Justice Committee seeks to contribute to a broad-based movement for racial, social, and economic justice. 

About Desis Rising Up and Moving:

DRUM - Desis Rising Up and Moving is a multigenerational, membership led organization of low-wage South Asian and Indo-Caribbean immigrants, workers and youth in New York City. Founded in 2000, DRUM has mobilized and built the leadership of thousands of low-income, South Asian and Indo-Caribbean immigrants to lead social and policy change that impacts their own lives- from immigrant rights to education reform, racial justice, and worker’s justice.  Our membership of over 5,000 adults, youth, and families is multigenerational and represents the diaspora of the South Asian communities – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Guyana, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, and beyond.  In over a decade, we have built a unique model of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean undocumented workers, women, and youth led organizing for rights and justice from the local to the global rooted in base building, leadership development, running short and long term campaigns to reform policies on all levels, strong cross-community alliances locally and nationally, and building democratic and mass participatory spaces.

New York, NY - Today, the NYPD formally served the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s (CCRB) misconduct charges on officers Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco for killing Win Rozario in March 2024. The Bangladeshi teenager was safe at home until NYPD officers Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco arrived. Alongi and Cianfrocco recklessly shot Win five times in less than two minutes of entering the apartment, as his mother pleaded for the officers not to shoot - endangering the lives of Win’s mother and younger brother in the process.

While the CCRB ruled last week that the officers engaged in serious misconduct, including excessive force and abuse of authority, there was growing concern amongst police accountability groups and others that the NYPD would try to block commencement of discipline proceedings against the officers, especially given the NYPD’s history of obstruction and delays related to discipline proceedings of officers in other high profile police killings, including Eric Garner, Kawaski Trawick, Allan Feliz and more. 

News that charges were delivered came in the late afternoon, after a morning protest held by Win Rozario’s family, the Justice Committee, Desis Rising Up and Moving (DRUM), elected officials and others at NYPD headquarters, calling for Commissioner Tisch and Mayor Adams to ensure that charges were delivered before an important 18-month deadline next week. A group of almost forty city and state elected officials also sent a letter to the commissioner and mayor, urging them to “move forward without delay or obstruction, so that New Yorkers and Win’s family do not have to wait another year for closure and action.” 

In response to the news that charges were served on Alongi and Cianfrocco, Notan Eva Costa, the mother of Win Rozario, issued the following statement: “I’m relieved to hear that the NYPD has done the right thing and served the CCRB’s charges, but I wish me and my family and so many others didn’t have to fight to make that happen. The truth is Alongi and Cianfrocco should already have been fired and it’s painful that we still have the whole discipline process ahead of us. I hope this means the NYPD won’t try to play tricks in the months ahead and that Alongi and Cianfrocco are fired as soon as possible. Without Win this past year and a half, I have felt like I lost a part of myself. I am fighting for Win and all New Yorkers so that all our children get a chance to grow up. Young people struggling with mental health issues should not live in fear of being killed by the NYPD.”

Loyda Colon (they/them), Executive Director of the Justice Committee and a representative of the family shared: “The facts related to the NYPD murder of Win Rozario, a teenager who was safe in his home prior to Alongi & Cianfrocco’s arrival are clear. Commissioner Tisch did the right thing by making sure the CCRB’s misconduct charges were served but we shouldn’t have had to fight to ensure this would happen. Now, a discipline trial date must be set so Alongi & Cianfrocco can be fired - and Attorney General James must indict and prosecute them. Anything less sends the message that NYPD officers can kill with impunity - and that families like Win’s must bear the brunt. “

Sherry Padilla (she/her), Organizer with Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM) said: “For too long, the lack of accountability for NYPD officers has fueled the recklessness we saw in the murder of Win Rozario. The serving of the charges substantiated by the CCRB on Alongi and Cianfrocco is a welcome step, but only possible because the Rozario family and others fought relentlessly for it. The gap left in the Rozario family by Win’s absence can never be filled. All the more important that the remaining steps of firing and prosecution go through so that the family has even a bare opportunity to move forward.”

Luna Droubi (she/her), Partner, Beldock Levine and Hoffman, said:"NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch's service of the charges is a step in the right direction towards ending the culture of impunity that has persisted in the NYPD. I hope this leads to accountability, but I know it won't lead to justice, because if we could have justice, Mr. Rozario would be alive with his family."

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BACKGROUND

On March 27, 2024, teenager Win Rozario was killed in front of his mother and younger brother in his family’s Ozone Park apartment by NYPD Officers Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco. Officers Alongi and Cianfrocco recklessly shot Win at least five times in less than two minutes of entering the apartment, as his mother pleaded for the officers not to shoot. Alongi & Cianfrocco violated numerous NYPD protocols, including when they tased Win without warning while he was standing still with nothing in his hands, chaotically escalating the crisis that they had created without properly taking steps to de-escalate in spite of sufficient time to do so, and shooting Win while his mother and younger brother were nearby, endangering their lives.  

Immediately following the shooting, NYPD officers forced Win’s mother and younger brother to go to the precinct to be interrogated, preventing them from accompanying Win to the hospital. Ms. Costa was questioned at length without counsel before being told her son had died, and Win’s 17-year-old brother was also interrogated alone. NYPD officers blocked re-entry to the Rozario family’s home for more than two days, refusing the family’s requests to retrieve belongings, access medications, or even to have someone feed their cat.

For over a month after Win Rozario was killed, the NYPD blocked transparency, including refusing to release the names of the officers involved. Alongi and Cianfrocco’s names were first publicly identified by the Attorney General’s Office when they released officer body camera footage on May 3, 2024. Mayor Adams’ first and only public statements regarding the killing were issued only after the Attorney General released body camera footage, over five weeks after Win was killed, after he was questioned by press. After being questioned by reporters, Mayor Adams falsely claimed that he had reached out to the family after the incident and that discipline would have to wait until after the Attorney General’s investigation concluded with a determination, which has never been accurate.

For the past year and a half, Win Rozario’s family, along with the Justice Committee, Desis Rising Up & Moving and others have called for the NYPD to fire – and for the NYS Attorney General to prosecute – NYPD officers Alongi and Cianfrocco. Win’s family is also calling for police to be removed from the city’s mental health response. Win Rozario’s mother wrote about the year since Win was killed and the NYPD’s mistreatment of her family in a March 2025 Daily News Op-Ed. 

On September 19, the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) substantiated eight misconduct allegations  against officers Alongi and Cianfrocco, including excessive force and abuse of authority. The CCRB filed “charges and specifications” with the NYPD against Alongi and Cianfrocco– the highest class of discipline against officers, reflecting the severity of misconduct. The NYPD is responsible for officially serving the CCRB’s charges on the officers, to formally commence disciplinary proceedings. 

The NYPD’s Force Investigation Division (FID) was required to investigate the killing, but the family has received no information or updates from Mayor Adams or the NYPD about their mandated investigation since Win was killed in March of 2024. The New York State Attorney General is also investigating the killing.

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About the Justice Committee:

Since the 1980s, the Justice Committee (JC) has been dedicated to building a movement against police violence and systemic racism in New York City. The heart of our work is organizing and uplifting the leadership of families who have lost loved ones to the police and survivors of police violence. We empower our community to deter police violence, hold law enforcement accountable, and build people-led community safety through grassroots organizing campaigns, community empowerment, political education, our CopWatch program, and by developing safety mechanisms and projects that decrease reliance on police. By building solidarity with other anti-racist, immigrant and people of color-led organizations, the Justice Committee seeks to contribute to a broad-based movement for racial, social, and economic justice. 

About Desis Rising Up and Moving:

DRUM - Desis Rising Up and Moving is a multigenerational, membership led organization of low-wage South Asian and Indo-Caribbean immigrants, workers and youth in New York City. Founded in 2000, DRUM has mobilized and built the leadership of thousands of low-income, South Asian and Indo-Caribbean immigrants to lead social and policy change that impacts their own lives- from immigrant rights to education reform, racial justice, and worker’s justice.  Our membership of over 5,000 adults, youth, and families is multigenerational and represents the diaspora of the South Asian communities – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Guyana, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, and beyond.  In over a decade, we have built a unique model of South Asian and Indo-Caribbean undocumented workers, women, and youth led organizing for rights and justice from the local to the global rooted in base building, leadership development, running short and long term campaigns to reform policies on all levels, strong cross-community alliances locally and nationally, and building democratic and mass participatory spaces.