'Sleepy' Bayside Has Two Bloody Crime Scenes in One Month

Update, May 29, 2012 12:23p.m.: This article has been updated to protect the identity of a source that had been quoted. That source, who was not a witness to the crime, requested her name be removed out of safety concerns.

It's been an unusual month for crime in Bayside.

On Wednesday night a man who said he was staying at , witnessed two gurneys with bodies wheeled away from 29-20 214th Place, across the street. The man didn't know this at the time, but the two bodies were of a 56-year-old man, who reportedly himself after cutting his 57-year-old female companion's neck.

Fire personnel had responded to the scene because the man had to the basement apartment. "Nothing ever happens here," said the church guest, who declined to be identified.

An offer securing the scene on Thursday, who had recently tranferred from another precinct said she was under the previous impression that this area was "sleepy."

Relative to the rest of the city, it usually is. But this isn't the first horrific crime committed in Bayside this month.

On May 10, a man stabbed a woman and himself, and was later shot in the chest by police when he came at NYPD officers responding to the crime, . An NYPD source at the 111th Precinct on Thursday said the perpetrator died of his injuries, but wasn't sure if the victim was still alive.

"Unless you're going to the bars at night, it's usually it is really quiet, laid back neighborhood, said Danielle Rubin, whose boyfriend lives nearby the crime on 214th Place. "I’ve never heard of anything like that before," she added.