Overview

• Officer Chowdhury Nafees was discharged from Jacobi Medical Center on May 29, four days after sustaining multiple severe facial fractures in a Bronx robbery and beating.
• Surveillance footage captured two masked assailants pinning Nafees at knifepoint, repeatedly striking his face and stealing his Glock 19 service weapon, phone and wallet.
• Investigators identified Taveon Hargrove, 23, and Wayne Lucas, 22, leading to Hargrove’s arrest in Virginia on May 27 and Lucas’s capture in Richmond on May 28.
• Authorities linked the suspects to the robbery after Jeffrey Hargrove, Taveon’s father, was arrested for using one of Nafees’s credit cards following the attack.
• Nafees is slated for further facial reconstruction surgeries and faces potential long-term psychological effects while officials arrange extradition of the accused back to New York.