Henryk Siwiak, a Polish immigrant, died in New York on September 11, 2001.
Unlike the thousands who died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Siwiak was shot to death in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. Siwiak's killing was the only homicide in New York City on that day.
Ten years later, the case remains unsolved. Detective Michael Prate of with the 79th Precinct toldWNYC that there are no leads in the case.
“The block [where Siwiak was killed] at that time was an active block for both narcotics and street robberies. … He spoke very little English so if it was an attempted robbery maybe he didn’t understand what was going on.”
Siwiak's sister told the New York Daily News that said he came to the United States in 2000 after he was laid off from his job as an inspector for the Polish national railroad.
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