Mystery remains month after beloved Kosher baker and grandfather found shot dead in NYC park

The slaying of a Jewish baker who moonlit as a rabbi remains a stone cold whodunit more than month after he was horrifically found shot dead near a lake in a Queens park.Albert Itzkowitz, 75, was slain in broad daylight – with gunshots in his neck and back – along the shoreline of Kissena Lake on May 18.His body was found shortly before 5 p.m., sparking a mystery that remains frustratingly unsolved for his loved ones.“All motives” are being investigated and none are being ruled out, NYPD officials said – including the potential that Itzkowitz was the victim of an antisemitic hate crime.“He didn’t have any enemies.

You can write that down,” his distraught son, Moshe Oelbaum, told The Post a few days after the murder.The seemingly humdrum last hours of Itzkowitz’s life – except for the fatal confrontation with a still-unknown assailant or assailants – have been reconstructed by NYPD investigators. Itzkowitz, an observant Jew who served as a rabbi at a nursing home, left his Kew Garden Hills house shortly before 6:15 a.m., police said.After spending roughly two hours at a synagogue, he went to a Capital One bank, where he made a withdrawal at 9 a.m., according to cops.Shortly after 10 a.m., Itzkowitz returned home and briefly went outside around 10:55 a.m.

for a minute before going back indoors, police said.He left his home for a final time at 11 a.m.

and walked over to a Walgreens, where he made a purchase.Video footage shows Izkowitz’s car approaching Kissena Park – a forested haven with a picturesque lake – a few minutes before 11:30 a.m., cops said.His daughter, Leah Livshitz, said during a press conference Thursday that the park was a quiet place her dad “regularly visited during his lunch break.”Police said Izkowitz was in the park to sunbathe, as he was found with a beach chair, a baseball cap and sunglasses with a crossword puzzle.Whatever happened between Izkowitz’s arrival and the discovery of his body roughly five hours ...