Oversight Board Substantiates Charges Against Police Who Killed Bangladeshi Teen Win Rozario, while Mayor Adams & NYPD Commissioner Tisch Continue to Ignore Win’s Family

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday September 12, 2025

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Oversight Board Substantiates Charges Against Police Who Killed Bangladeshi Teen Win Rozario, while Mayor Adams & NYPD Commissioner Tisch Continue to Ignore Win’s Family

Family renews calls for Attorney General to indict the officers and for the NYPD to fire them

New York - On Wednesday September 10, 2025, the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) moved to substantiate numerous misconduct allegations against Officers Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco related to their killing of 19-year-old Win Rozario on March 27, 2024. The police review board substantiated a total of eight allegations of misconduct  - four allegations against each officer - including excessive force and abuse of authority. The CCRB also referred other possible misconduct for the NYPD to investigate, related to allegations that are outside the review board’s jurisdiction. 

Officers Alongi and Cianfrocco tased Win multiple times and shot him five times in less than two minutes of their arrival at the family’s apartment, killing Win in front of his mother and younger brother.  The allegations substantiated by the CCRB’s board represent misconduct that requires “departmental charges and specifications” be served on the officers.  Departmental charges are the highest level of discipline recommended for the most serious instances of misconduct and initiate discipline proceedings that allow the CCRB to prosecute officers in an NYPD departmental discipline trial.  Officers Alongi and Cianfrocco face penalties up to termination. The NYPD Commissioner is authorized to make final decisions on officer discipline. 

In response to news of the ruling, Win Rozario’s mother, Notan Eva Costa (she/her), released the following statement: "The past year and a half have been incredibly hard for me and my family. I still feel the trauma of Alongi and Cianfrocco murdering Win in front of me, and almost killing me and my other son too. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't miss my son. My heart is still broken. CCRB's decision gives us some relief in this moment that they understand that Win's life mattered and that Alongi and Cianfrocco are dangerous. That means something to us especially because Mayor Adams and Commissioner Tisch have continued to ignore us, not even responding to letters we hand-delivered and sent in June, and Attorney General James still hasn't indicted Alongi and Cianfrocco. We thank the CCRB for moving forward on disciplining Alongi and Cianfrocco, we thank those who have been supporting our family and we'll continue to fight to make sure Alongi and Cianfrocco are both fired as soon as possible so they can't hurt or murder any other New Yorkers." 

Loyda Colon (they/them), Executive Director of the Justice Committee and a representative of the family shared: “The CCRB decision to bring fireable discipline charges against NYPD Officers Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco for recklessly murdering Win Rozario was the right and only acceptable decision that it could have made, but these officers should have already been charged and fired by Commissioner Tisch and the mayor and they should have already been indicted by Attorney General James. Firing cops for unjustly killing a teenager who was safe in his home until they arrived should not take this long, and we’re at an early step in the process. We’re demanding the NYPD serve the discipline charges immediately, instead of their usual tactic of stalling to shield the cops, as they have done with so many other cases.  Alongi and Cianfrocco must be fired and prosecuted without further delay.” 

Simran Thind (she/they), Organizer at Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM) and a representative of the family stated: "It is clear that the CCRB saw that Officers Alongi and Cianfrocco acted dangerously, violating the NYPD's own protocols, and they are rightfully moving forward on fireable charges against these officers. We are calling upon and demanding that Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, who has the power to do the right thing, to make sure that these officers are fired so that no other New Yorker fears that their loved one could be harmed by Officers Alongi and Cianfrocco.” 

Luna Droubi (she/her), partner with Beldock Levine & Hoffman, LLP stated: “It’s vindicating that the CCRB has substantiated claims against the officers who killed Win Rozario. It won’t bring Win back, but it is one step closer to the accountability needed to push change forward. The City of New York must stop sending police officers to mental health responses.”

BACKGROUND

Teenager Win Rozario was in his Ozone Park, Queens home when he was killed by NYPD Officers Salvatore Alongi and Matthew Cianfrocco on March 27, 2024, in front of his mother and younger brother. Officers Alongi and Cianfrocco created a crisis when they arrived and repeatedly escalated the situation, tasing and shooting 19-year-old Win at least five times within less than two minutes after entering the family’s apartment, unjustifiably killing the teen and risking the lives of Win’s mother and brother.

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 reporters. At this point 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, 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. 

The NYPD’s Force Investigation Division (FID) is 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. Mayor Adams has falsely claimed that the NYPD must wait until the Attorney General’s investigation has concluded before they can act on  discipline. The New York State Attorney General is also investigating the killing.

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About Desis Rising Up & Moving:

DRUM - Desis Rising Up & 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 and 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.