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.
“Daddy was visibly Jewish,” Itzkowitz’s visibly emotional daughter, Leah Livshitz, told reporters gathered at the same park Thursday morning. “He was targeted in broad daylight.”…