Posted on 03/14/2012 8:38:37 AM PDT by dead
Meet the bravest custodian in Queens.
Supermarket janitor Angel Candido grabbed a shotgun early yesterday and fatally blasted a burglar who tried to clean out the store in the middle of the night, cops said.
Candido, who was working an overnight shift at the Met market at Jamaica Avenue and 173rd Street, was taking an authorized catnap in a crawl space below the store’s office when he suddenly awoke up at 2 a.m. to see two men drop from the ceiling.
He watched silently as the burglars, who had cut a hole in the roof, made their way to the office safe.
Then the hardworking employee grabbed hold of the weapon — which he keeps with him when he sleeps — and fired a single blast.
Mamadou Koureichi, 27, of 88-09 148th St., was pronounced dead at the scene with a wound to the torso.
His unidentified accomplice fled, leaving the burglary tools behind.
Candido is a 54-year-old churchgoing family man who works a grueling 11-hour shift as a combination cleaning man, shelf stocker and watchman.
He said he did what he had to do and took no pleasure in killing a man.
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Cops at the 103rd Precinct questioned the soft-spoken shooter, but Queens District Attorney Richard Brown declined to prosecute since Candido is considered a victim in the case.
The weapon is registered to the store’s owner...
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/janitor_blast_kills_grocery_store_uyjygz6ODv0dMDBWpOmDFP#ixzz1p6c0VDe2
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>> Mamadou Koureichi sounds hispanic to you?
No, but that guy was the PERP, not the janitor.
And the poster to whom I replied was talking about the janitor — the shooter.
His name is Angel Candido, and yes, that DOES sound Hispanic to me.
Get it?
>> So before you get offended
I’m not offended in the least; YOU seem to be the guy with the race chip on his shoulder.
Shotgun blast to the torso, works everytime. No wonder the shotgun is the best self defense weapon ever made.
From the look of the guy, I would bet he’s Puerto Rican, which means he is a US citizen. Would an illegal, er... undocumented, alien, er... resident really want to be in the paper?
Please forgive.
I obviously missed something.
Race has nothing to do with it. Lefties have everything to do with it. If it were not for their divisive policies, we would not be playing definition.
I do love how you keep cutting out the meat of the argument to fit your definitions.
Oh, I get the meat of your argument, all right. I don’t even disagree with it, as I stated in my first reply.
I also get that with no evidence you tarred what appears to be an honest man with a broad brush because of what you assume from his surname and zero other evidence, and THAT lies at the premise for your conclusion.
No problem. Sorry if I was a bit harsh.
FRegards
Grasping again. Now it is getting humorous.
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