If this is him, his profile was available on myspace when I started looking but seems to have disappeared. Either that or myspace was having issues.
Posted on 11/05/2007 8:33:39 AM PST by nin_kasi
NEW YORK -- Family and friends gathered Sunday at a funeral home in the Bronx to remember Eric Rosado, the 14-year-old shot and killed while robbing a South Miami-Dade grocery store last week.
Many wondered why the teen, who moved to South Florida in 2005 and returned home to be buried, had suddenly gone astray.
Rosado, a freshman at Cooper City High School, died when a store manager who was being robbed pulled out a gun and shot him.
Police said the teenager's two accomplices in the attempted holdup of the Diaz Grocery Store in Naranja on Tuesday -- and in other mom-and-pop grocery robberies since October -- were his 32-year-old girlfriend, Ivona Sanchez, who is the mother of one of his friends, and Sanchez's sister, Bonie Saldarriaga, 30.
The two women have been charged with second-degree felony murder for the death of their young accomplice, killed in the commission of a crime.
In the Bronx, where Rosado was born and raised and had scores of relatives, shock spread through his funeral.
''We were amazed,'' said Rosado's older sister, Jackie Alvarado, upon hearing the news that her brother had been killed. ``It was not the person that we knew.''
Those who knew Rosado before he moved to Florida described him as a serious student.
''He was always trying to protect people, not hurt them,'' said Jennifer Avallone, his fifth-grade teacher at PS 280. ``All the teachers loved him.''
The small room at the funeral home on 192nd Street filled up with people as afternoon turned to evening. A wreath of pink and white flowers covered the open casket where Rosado's body lay.
The boy's mother sat in the front row during the wake. At one point her sobbing filled the room. ''My God, my God,'' she cried out in Spanish. ``Why?''
Two years ago, Candida Alvarado moved with her son to Florida. Family described Alvarado as a hard-working single mother who stayed involved in her son's life. The move was an attempt to take Rosado away from the tough Bronx streets.
''She wanted to isolate him from the environment here,'' said Rosado's cousin, Juan Cordero, who was one of the last to speak to Rosado before his death.
But the move brought new challenges. Soon, he met Sanchez -- and his life changed.
Rosado's family said his behavior changed. ''My little cousin was stressed. He wasn't the same,'' said Cordero, 22. He said Rosado seemed preoccupied all the time. ``It's like he wasn't there.''
Yet even while Rosado grew increasingly distant from his family, those still close to him said he continued to remember important events.
He made it a point to attend the baby shower for Cordero's first child last May.
He called his sister Jackie when she gave birth to a baby boy in August.
And when another sister, Wanda, got a new job as an administrator of a general pharmaceutical company, he phoned to say congratulations.
''He was just family based,'' said his sister, Wanda, 26.
That's what I was thinking. "Boy this frying pan sure is hot, I think I'm gonna jump into that fire"
They might not have know. She was his friend's mom, so it would not be unusual for him to be spending time at his friend's house
My boy is a good boy. He would never do that.
Yeah, right!
That's waaaay to close to an old joke from a TV commercial:
"Por que? Por que?" his mother sobbed, then the casket opens and says:
"Butter."
Yes, I am making fun of her grief for her thug child....
If this is him, his profile was available on myspace when I started looking but seems to have disappeared. Either that or myspace was having issues.
“Mizzzzz Sanchez” is doing her time. I know of this only by meeting her a few months after the incident. Maybe she should be charged with statuatory rape, however, his mother was allowing them to sleep in her home. That’s where the mother was, right down the hall. As far as I can tell, she made an error in judgement allowing herself to fall in love with her best friend’s son, and together, they made bad choices. The media doesn’t say that, nor how not only is she facing a long time in jail, but she has lost her “soul-mate,” whatever number his age was.
No so what does his clean record before even meeting this lady tell you about him, what does his good grades tell you about him, why would his 5th grade teacher be doing in his funeral after 5 years of not seeing him. Eric was driven 2 hours away from his house and convinced that everything was gonna be alright, and that they were gonna move together since his mother disagreed with this relationship. His mother called the cops on this lady several times but the two denied their romance to the cops, and only warnings were issued. He thought he was in love.
The boys father didn’t want his mom to move to Florida from the beginning, and yes he loves Eric very much, he is devastated. He would send to get Eric for the summer time and tried to convince Eric to listen to his mom and to behave. Anytime Eric would get home to late while visiting him he would remind him that he was not grown. Eric wouldn’t even dare answer to his father.
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