09 February 2010
Leonidas Brito never made it to Santo Domingo By Frances McInnis December 9, 2009 Leonidas Brito was a quiet neighbor. The 52-year-old rented a single bedroom on the ground floor of 416 East 173rd Street, a building of crumbling and mismatched orange and red brick with black fire escapes snaking down its front wall. Guillermo Neiras, 24, who lived [...]
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09 February 2010
Ofelia Torres, then 16, lay down to play with her new Red Nose Pit-bull puppy in the Bronx apartment she shared with her 18-year-old boyfriend. Her mother and boyfriend Samuel Encarnacion had given her the dog, named Moochie, that week.
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09 February 2010
Rafin Vellon killed three people, including his girlfriend and her retarded son, in an underground apartment in Longwood in October 2006. On why he committed such a horrendous crime, he testified only that "it had to be done." Nobody showed up at his trial.
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02 February 2010
Halil Korkmaz was charging east along Houston Street around 10 p.m. when he stopped for a red light at Chrystie Street on Saturday, May 17, 1997. Then, a man wearing a helmet dismounted the rear of a friend’s Ninja motorcycle idling beside Korkmaz, and approached him. “Give me the bike,” commanded the figure.
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