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Florida: 'Loud music' provokes 3 killings
Miami Herald ^ | June 2, 2003

Posted on 06/02/2003 8:59:28 AM PDT by george wythe

A man apparently outraged by his neighbors' loud music and late-night partying opened fire on a Miami Beach birthday bash early Sunday, killing three revelers and wounding two others, police said.

The spray of bullets silenced the celebration for the wife of one of the victims and sent partygoers diving for cover at about 4 a.m., police said.

Among the dead: two young fathers and a Brazilian woman, hit as she stood partying inside unit 1 at Ronna Apartments, a peach-colored, two story building at 501 77th St.

All of the dead were South American immigrants. All died at the scene, their loved ones crying over their bodies. The suspected gunman, Kevin Evers, who lives in an apartment on the second floor of the building, was later arrested in Broward County.

The injured were taken to Mount Sinai Medical Center. They are expected to recover.

Police said they believed ''loud music'' led to the triple slaying that terrorized partygoers. It was unclear whether Evers confronted partygoers over the music before the shooting, but witnesses said there was an argument.

AT LEAST 9 BULLETS

Bright yellow police cones placed by detectives outside the apartment Sunday indicated at least nine bullets tore into the crowd.

Several neighbors said that a woman who was injured had a baby in her arms when she was shot and that the bullet just missed the baby's head and hit her shoulder.

After the shooting, Evers, 41, ran away. He was later arrested at his parents home in Sunrise, police said. Sunday afternoon, Evers was transported back to Miami Beach police headquarters for interrogation. He faces three murder charges and two attempted murder charges. Evers had no serious criminal background in Florida, records indicate.

But there was a trespassing warning issued against him 10 days ago at a Coral Springs shopping mall, police said.

A NEWCOMER

Evers was a newcomer to the building, which has about 10 units. He had been living there with his girlfriend for a short time, police said.

''He came down here, and got into some type of argument,'' said Miami Beach police spokesman Bobby Hernandez, standing outside the building Sunday morning. ``The subject pulls out a gun and started firing off rounds.''

Hernandez called the shootings the first slayings on Miami Beach this year.

Unlike in the south end of Miami Beach, Hernandez said, police do not field many noise complaints from the area where the shooting occurred and none that night. Police said Evers did not call police to complain about the party.

By city ordinance, music should not be audible within 100 feet of a residence after 11 p.m., police said.

Neighbor Fernández, who lived across the street, said that about 1 a.m. she heard Latin music blaring from the ground floor apartment where the party was taking place.

''It was loud,'' said Fernández, who thought it sounded like merengue, a hard-thumping dance music from the Dominican Republic.

After feeding her baby, she said she went to bed and woke up to the sound of gunshots several hours later. ''It was about six shots, one after the other,'' she said. Other neighbors said they heard as many as 10 shots.

NOTICED THE PARTY

Two other neighbors also noticed the party, but didn't recall the music being particularly loud.

''I was sleeping and first I heard screaming, then the shots,'' Nicolás Fernando-López, who lives in the building next door, said. `It must have been 10 or 11. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam. A lot.''

When Fernando-López, 40, and other neighbors ran out to see what had happened, one man lay bleeding on the sidewalk, another on the patio of the apartment building. A third person lay over the doorway, Fernando-López said.

Beach police spokesman Hernandez said Evers was acquainted with at least some of the victims.

Hernandez said Evers did not have any prior convictions. He said a store owner in the Broward County mall filed a complaint with police after a tiff with Evers.

WIFE'S BIRTHDAY

Friends said it was Fondovila's wife -- identified as Melina Fondovila -- who was being feted Saturday night. Her birthday was Sunday.

They also said the couple had just celebrated their daughter's first birthday on Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at miami.com ...


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To: george wythe; All
Townhouses are glorified apartments, with the same noise problems. I'm glad to hear there are other people out there who don't like all this racket.
141 posted on 06/02/2003 1:20:11 PM PDT by tob2
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To: WRhine
"I take it you are not a big fan of Polka! "

You've got it. As an old, one-time tuba player, I get a huge kick out of listening to some Mexican music. They have some really talented tubists playing the bottom line of some of those polka-like tunes. I'm always amazed by their skill.

I sometimes even tune into a traditional Mexican AM station on long trips, just to listen.
142 posted on 06/02/2003 1:22:34 PM PDT by MineralMan
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To: george wythe
The Vaughan Monroe album is what pushed him over the edge.
143 posted on 06/02/2003 1:23:00 PM PDT by Consort
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To: WRhine
The only polkas I like are the polka dots on Buddy Guy's Fender Stratocaster.
144 posted on 06/02/2003 1:24:39 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: WRhine
How do you think Led Zep tunes would sound arranged to a Polka beat? ...and a one, and a two and a three.

Hmmmm....was "Hot Dog" on ITTOD set to that beat? It's been so long I forgot.

145 posted on 06/02/2003 1:31:33 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo
The only polkas I like are the polka dots on Buddy Guy's Fender Stratocaster.

Yeh, polka makes for good dance music but like disco, gets tired fast.

146 posted on 06/02/2003 1:34:33 PM PDT by WRhine
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To: darkwing104
Race card


147 posted on 06/02/2003 1:35:39 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Hmmmm....was "Hot Dog" on ITTOD set to that beat? It's been so long I forgot.

I don't know. It's a good question for the Zep thread.

148 posted on 06/02/2003 1:39:05 PM PDT by WRhine
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To: george wythe
I wonder what type of music was playing. I doubt it was something lovely like "Girl From Ipanema".
149 posted on 06/02/2003 1:39:23 PM PDT by tuna_battle_slight_return
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To: breakem
I think there's a lot of folks who have a neighbor that needs killing

I agree and it's gonna get alot worse. Subdivision hell.

Prolly the result of building houses out of chipboard and styrofoam and putting them ten feet away from each other.

150 posted on 06/02/2003 1:41:25 PM PDT by riri
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To: philetus
Race card

He He, that didn't take long.

151 posted on 06/02/2003 1:43:44 PM PDT by darkwing104
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To: tob2
We do not know all the facts of this sad case and I do hope that people who "play it loud" will sit up and take notice. From my own experience, however, people who have to blast music and create intolerable noise pollution DON'T CARE! In my community, this goes on 24/7 and the police DON'T CARE about it nor does the Home Owners Association..................

I say the police don't want to get involved since the jackasses playing loud just may be tanked, violent and armed.
152 posted on 06/02/2003 1:51:35 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: vrwc1
His post about "mowing down the annoying end of the gene pool" violates this site's posting policy. It's racist and advocates violence, pure and simple.

Apparently you assume that loud music players belong to a particular race? And therefore their "elimination" must be a racist comment. My observation is that inconsiderate people belong to all races and genders. It was merely an attempt at satire.

Remember how Jonathan Swift wrote a "Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public" in 1729? He suggested that the Irish, suffering from dire poverty under racist English rule, should eat their young to neatly banish both starvation and overpopulation. Of course my attempt at satire is not up to his level, but I think issuing hunting licenses to thin out the herd of lawyers and politicians should be duly considered. And yes, ":-)" should be a big hint it was satire (or sarcasm).

153 posted on 06/02/2003 1:53:40 PM PDT by dark_lord (The Statue of Liberty now holds a baseball bat and she's yelling 'You want a piece of me?')
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To: Vic3O3
Actually I've tried that to cover up my husband's snoring--it helps, but doesn't cut it out completely. 29db foam plugs with 31db muffs over top. Plus the muffs are hard to sleep in...

Try silicon plugs.

154 posted on 06/02/2003 1:59:57 PM PDT by agrarianlady
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To: darkwing104
We used to do it in college. There was nothing more fun than running from the campus police after dropping a box of clorox in the fountain. I went to a small Baptist college in Missouri and we only did it once or twice.
155 posted on 06/02/2003 2:11:21 PM PDT by Frapster (John 3:16)
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To: vrwc1
My, my, my what a smug little provocateur you are. Trying to get a rise from Joe and others. BTW> The shallow end of the gene pool has many whites in it and is hardly a racist expression.
156 posted on 06/02/2003 2:15:55 PM PDT by dennisw
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To: Rebelbase
Remember the "Boots" from Cartagena?

And when it was called "Coca-Plum"....lol
157 posted on 06/02/2003 2:29:11 PM PDT by wardaddy (And they tried to warn me of my evil ways, But I couldn't hear what they had to say)
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To: Joe Hadenuf
I can't imaging living in an apartment building, (I call them civilian barracks) teaming with low life that party at 4:00 in the freaking morning.....

I am in that situation, and believe me, it's hell. In my case, it's not people in my apartment building who are doing it, but people in the building next store and people in the single-family dwellings right behind my building. Of course I don't condone murder, but having been in the shooter's situation, I can easily, easily see how it drive somebody over the edge.

158 posted on 06/02/2003 2:31:10 PM PDT by Nea Wood ("If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people, he should resign." -- Bubba)
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To: wardaddy
We always called it Coco Plum Circle. We used to play in the mangroves just east of there.

I never bothered to ask anyone what those shoes were all about though. Do you know?
159 posted on 06/02/2003 2:50:35 PM PDT by Rebelbase (........The bartender yells, "hey get out of here, we don't serve breakfast!")
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To: Rebelbase
They are a copy of a statue of some boots in Cartagena Colombia...maybe a sister city gift or something like that.
160 posted on 06/02/2003 2:54:57 PM PDT by wardaddy (And they tried to warn me of my evil ways, But I couldn't hear what they had to say)
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