Posted on 09/26/2024 10:19:59 AM PDT by lowbridge
Two brutes — including one who was busted for a separate assault last month — beat a longtime Bronx fruit vendor and father of three to death with a baseball bat in a “cold-hearted,” unprovoked attack earlier this month, cops and sources said.
Romel Jarrett, 37, and Terrence Downes, 44, wrestled 56-year-old Leslie Sanchez to the ground and bashed him in the head with the bat at his selling spot on East Fordham Road near the Grand Concourse in Morris Heights around 7:40 p.m. Sept. 12, according to authorities and a criminal complaint.
He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in critical condition, and succumbed to his injuries on Sept. 14, police said.
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“When I heard a street vendor was attacked on the street, I never thought it would have been him,” family friend and former neighbor Autumn Pearson told The Post Wednesday.
“He was a peaceful guy.”
Sanchez and his wife had two boys and a girl, the youngest son only a baby, Pearson said.
“He was a good father,” Pearson said.
“He took care of his family. He was the husband, he was the father…everything he did was for his family. This is just so sad. It was so cold-hearted. It was senseless. He just had a baby boy!”
When asked about Sanchez’s wife, Pearson simply said, “She’s doing OK,” but declined to elaborate.
Sanchez initially hoped to sell fruit near his home on Grant Avenue, where he’d lived for two years, before settling on the East Fordham Road location, Pearson said.
“He had been at that corner for five years. He thought of the idea to sell fruits and vegetables right here,” the family friend said.
“He went out and bought a white truck and that’s how he started.”
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Is it them again, Yogi?
apparently the tipping point hasn’t been reached yet.
Yes, Boo Boo, it sure is.
It’s my understanding that a big street gang racket is extorting “protection money” from street vendors. Wonder if these killers were independent subhuman thugs or gang affiliated subhuman thugs.
These two groups need to be brought together in close proximity.
Looks like black African on black Caribbean crime.
The Hutu and Tutsi.
I think these Marxist Run cities will eventually outlaw gangs and send them to POW style camps in remote areas like Bukele (El Salvador) did.
Similarly, they must find a way to STOP Soros. RICO ???
“Romel Jarrett, 37, and Terrence Downes, 44”
...”brutes” my ass!
Bring back the Mafia! Loved the bikers in the bar scene from “A Bronx Tale”.....
Yes. He refused to pay for protection. They made an example of him. I wonder which gang did it. BLM? Venezuelans? Take your pick.
I hope the people of NY are seeing the connection between these sorts of incidents and their democrat leadership.
And remember it when they vote.
I’ll keep it civil and narrowed to one thing:
The people who voted for Dems enabled the judicial system of soft on crime DAs and judges with low bail or no bail and lots of advantages for the guilty to get out on the streets to commit crimes like this.
If prison he would not have been out to commit the crime.
The Dems around us all are to blame and need to be punished.
And, thanks to catch and release, they’ll get an appearance ticket which they’ll ignore and disappear.
Seems that way.
If the victim were black and the perps another race, the city would be burning.
Welcome to the USA ... the land of opportunity for hardened criminals, gangbangers and rapists ... thanks for Joe and Kamala
The latest media lie is that “violent crime is down”.
Reportedly that was based on a true story.
A few bikers rode into a mobbed up neighborhood and stopped at a mob owned bar for a few drinks. They immediately got rowdy which earned them a beating from mob guys.
A day or two later those bikers returned to the same neighborhood towards the same bar, but this time with their entire gang, looking to exact their revenge. Only to find there was a shotgun pointed at them from almost every window and doorway up and down the street. The bikers thought better of their revenge plan and kept on riding through without stopping and never came back.
PUBLIC EXECUTION, NOW!
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