"Sometimes I Clean Off The Blood"
Neighbors reportedly told cops that the sisters were a little?off. But they had no idea just how off they really were until Friday, July 1.
When the landlord finally realized that the stench emanating from the Flushing apartment shared by three elderly sisters and their 35-year-old niece wasn't burnt toast or boiled cabbage, he called the police. After breaking the door down, cops found the nearly mummified corpse of Gabrielle Durand, 87, just lying there in the hallway. She'd apparently been there for quite some time, though her two remaining sisters seemed completely oblivious to it (except to tell cops that they "hadn't seen her in a while"). The only excuse the niece had, to hear neighbors tell it, was that she was evil and controlling. Or just plain crazy and off her meds again.
The sisters were taken to the hospital, and the niece was taken to, well, a special hospital.
Shortly after 1 a.m. on July 4, a 59-year-old limo driver was walking through Central Park on his way home from work when he was ambushed by a group of unruly teens.
One of them allegedly socked him in the head, while another reportedly grabbed the bag he was carrying before the lot of them scampered back into the shadows.
The man was not terribly hurt, and the hooligans were probably disappointed shortly after the attack when they opened the bag.
Police are currently on the lookout for a teen wearing a tuxedo three sizes too big for him.
On Tuesday, a 27-year-old woman was at work in a Cypress Hills restaurant when her boyfriend showed up. Juan Paredes-Dejesus, 22, grabbed the woman, dragged her from the restaurant, threw her in a cab, told the cabbie to drive them to Fulton St., then started beating the woman.
The cabbie, perhaps just wanting to avoid trouble, perhaps out of sheer world-weariness, just kept driving to the appointed destination as the beating continued in the backseat. According to the Post, once there, Mr. Charm then dragged his girlfriend out of the cab, threw her on the ground, picked her up again, threw her against a building and socked her in the face. That's about when he was arrested.
A nosy, self-righteous do-gooder in the Highbridge section of the Bronx saw a filthy drunk passed out on the sidewalk last Tuesday. Intent on performing his proper civic duty, the Post reports, he contacted the police to report this affront to the neighborhood. But the joke was on him in the end-the "drunk" had actually been stabbed several times and was dead!
Finally, we all hated summer camp. That's just a given. But we never hated it the way 14-year-old Tariq Samuels hated it, that's for sure!
The Bronx boy returned home early on Wednesday. Not interested in the idea of returning to camp on Thursday, he took his dog outside, then allegedly set fire to his dad's SUV, splashed paint thinner around their apartment, torched that, and shot himself in the head.