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| Vicious Killer Killed By Pants |
| 2009-12-21 |
| A career criminal massacred three members of a family in their apartment but fell to his death when he tripped over his own baggy pants. The massacre occurred Thursday afternoon near a string of upscale shops on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Police said the attack apparently stemmed from botched drug ripoff. "There is a significant amount of heroin found in the apartment," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told the Daily News. Police said Hector Quinones, 44, shot and killed Carlos Rodriguez Sr., 52, and his 24-year-old son, Carlos Rodriguez Jr., then stabbed to death the younger Rodriguez's grandfather, Fernando Gonzalez, 87, according to reports in the Daily News and the New York Post. The elder Rodriguez's wife, Gisela Rodriguez, 49, and her daughter, Leyanis, 28, walked in on the carnage. Quinones heard keys in the lock and opened the door for the women, police said. He shot the mother, who was grazed on the head by a bullet but managed to run from the apartment. The killer was just about the grab the daughter when his low-slung pants fell down and he tripped, the Post said. That gave the young woman the chance to run into a back room, where she found the bodies of her brother and father. Quinones yanked up his pants and scrambled after Leyanis Rodriguez, who climbed onto a fire escape, screaming for help to construction workers on the roof of a nearby building, the Post said. The attacker followed her onto the fire escape, but once again his drooping pants fell and he tripped, plunging three stories to his death. Estella Carrino, who manages a street-level bicycle store in the building, said she heard the body hit the ground. "He had no jacket on and his pants were down. He was very dead," she told the Daily News. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose |
| #10 Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change. *happy sigh* The Princess Bride, one of my favourites! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-12-21 22:52 |
| #9 Dead is not adequate for zombies. You need very dead. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-12-21 20:37 |
| #8 Miracle Max: There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do. Inigo Montoya: What's that? Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change. |
| Posted by: gromky 2009-12-21 20:06 |
| #7 Irony. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-12-21 19:18 |
| #6 I think the difference between 'dead' and 'very dead' is that with dead, you don't have to wash the deceased's splattered brains off of your pants legs. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2009-12-21 19:07 |
| #5 He was very dead Who does she think she is, Coroner of Munchkinland? |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2009-12-21 16:37 |
| #4 "He had no jacket on and his pants were down. He was very dead," There's dead and then there's "very dead." In this particular case I think she is referring to the absence of involuntary muscle movement, twitching, etc, along with oozing, sticky grey matter on the sidewalk. Just my guess. Thank you Lord for positive outcomes. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-12-21 16:18 |
| #3 Nearly a full sweep. |
| Posted by: Angoth Platypus4042 2009-12-21 15:29 |
| #2 Feel-good stories like this always make Mondays a little more tolerable. |
| Posted by: Dar 2009-12-21 13:46 |
| #1 Interesting irony: Prison chic prevented him from going to the party.... |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2009-12-21 13:38 |