NYCHA employee shot boss at housing project over disciplinary argument
A NYCHA employee shot his boss during an argument over a disciplinary action, cops said Tuesday.
Frankie Corchado, 46, allegedly fired three bullets into the chest of his fellow NYCHA employee at around 2:15 p.m. Monday after the two had an argument in the third-floor office of the Fort Independence Houses in Knightsbridge Heights, police and tenant sources said.
Corchado had been written up multiple times for being “rude, nasty, disrespectful and belligerent” and his behavior had been reported to NYCHA officials on numerous occasions, according to Barbara Lauray, the building’s tenant association president.
“This could have been avoided had they taken him out of the development,” Lauray said. “NYCHA don’t give a damn about its residents, they’re the worst slumlords as everybody knows. They don’t give a damn about their residents, they don’t give a damn about their staff.”
The victim of the shooting — identified by tenants as Charles Newton — was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in non-life-threatening condition, cops said.
Newton, 43, is the resident building superintendent and ranks higher than Corchado in the complex’s hierarchy, according to Lauray, who said he has worked at Fort Independence houses for two years.
Corchado, who is employed as a supervisor of housing caretakers, has worked for NYCHA since at least 2008, according to public records.
He allegedly fled the scene of the shooting in a beige Chevy Tahoe, police said.
NYCHA did not immediately return a request for comment.
