Relatives of a 75-year-old kosher bakery owner found shot dead near a Queens park lake last month said they suspected the “visibly Jewish” man was targeted in a hate crime – as investigators and kin bumped the award for any leads on the slaying to $20,000.
Albert Itzkowitz – who also served as a rabbi at a nursing home – was mysteriously found shot in the neck and back along the shoreline of Kissena Lake just before 5 p.m. May 18, and the city medical examiner’s office has since ruled the case a homicide.
With no established motive or information on a suspect more than a month later, Itzkowitz’s loved ones are left wondering whether the killer was motivated by anti-semitic hate.
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