NYC goes over a week with no reported new homicides

Colin Mixson, New York Daily News on Dec 3, 2025

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NEW YORK — New York City has gone over a week with no reported new homicides, the Daily News has learned.

The last known homicide in the city was the stabbing death of 80-year-old Lev Vayner inside his apartment on Overlook Terrace near W. 184th St. in Washington Heights on Nov. 24.

The suspect, 45-year-old Alon Riabichev, who Vayner was kindly letting crash with him, called 911 around 3:15 a.m. and confessed to having killed Vayner, according to prosecutors. Riabichev is charged with murder.

Earlier that day, a 23-year-old man was stabbed to death and beaten with a baseball bat on the street near Times Square. Daevon Silva was attacked by three men near W. 49th St. and Seventh Ave. in Midtown about 1:05 a.m., cops said. No arrests have been made.

The homicide-free streak does not take into account prior incidents re-classified as homicides since Nov. 24, though those incidents would be included in NYPD CompStat data.

In January, the city went five days without any shootings, fatal or non-fatal, the longest stretch of its kind in 30 years.

Seventeen people citywide survived beng shot between Nov. 24 and Nov. 30, including a Brooklyn stray bullet shooting that left a 16-year-old basketball player paralyzed from the waist down.

The city has seen record-low level of murders and shootings this year.

In the past 11 months, the city recorded 652 shootings that wounded 812 victims. That’s compared to 843 shootings that left 1,025 people dead or wounded by this time last year, a drop of over 20%, NYPD stats show.

And this past November was one of the city’s safest ever, with 16 slayings, tying the previous record low set in 2018. There were also no murders recorded in Queens and Staten Island last month. November 2024 saw 30 homicides citywide.

“For the first 11 months of the year, New York City had the lowest number of shooting incidents and victims in recorded history, and the safest November on our subways outside the pandemic period,” said NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.