Gotta love nyc, where one wacko with a gun can take an entire building hostage
good thing it takes $450 and six months to get a pistol permit
you know else what bothers me about this article? the use of the word "killing" instead of "murder".
also, at the end, the guy says "thank god i'm alive". god really is the only one to thank if he left his door unlocked and didn't have any means to defend himself. IN NYC he left his door "open or unlocked".
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/nyregion/02shoot.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin
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After Fatal Home Invasion, Man Is Sought in Brooklyn
By TRYMAINE LEE
Published: October 1, 2008
The masked gunman kicked in the apartment door, pressed a gun to Xhevdet Nuzi’s head and issued an ultimatum: Hand over the money or someone dies. The robber had already taken hostages — two women from an apartment one floor below, the police said on Wednesday.
“I don’t know what happened,” Mr. Nuzi said outside his Brooklyn apartment hours after the early morning attack. “I was asleep. He said give me the money or I will shoot.”
Then the robber squeezed off a gunshot. And then another.
One of the women, Jessica Enger, 31, dropped to the floor, shot in the arm and chest. She was taken to Lutheran Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 7:12 a.m., the police said.
“This is a tragedy that anyone who knew her would feel,” Vivian Enger, an aunt of the victim, said in a telephone interview. She said her niece had a 6-year-old son who was staying with a grandmother at the time of the robbery and shooting.
“She was a loving mother and a very warm, friendly person,” the aunt said.
According to Jessica Enger’s MySpace page, she worked as an aesthetician at the 212 Spa for men in Manhattan and as an office manager at Champion Combustion, a heating and ventilation company in Brooklyn.
Many questions remain about the robbery-turned-killing in Bensonhurst, the police said. The whos and whys are as murky a mystery as the robber’s mode of operation: taking a set of residents as leverage to rob another.
It was unclear whether any money was taken from the apartment, the police said.
There had been no arrests in the killing late Wednesday, the police said.
Friends and neighbors identified the other hostage as Lisa Lee Ananias.
Mr. Nuzi and Ms. Ananias were not harmed.
The police said that about 6 a.m., a masked man crept through a rear door of the building on 85th Street, a wood-frame house fronted by a lawn and wrought-iron fence. The door was either left open or was unlocked, the police said.
The man then took Ms. Enger and Ms. Ananias to Mr. Nuzi’s second-floor apartment, where the attacker demanded money and then shot Ms. Enger, the police said.
“He put the gun to my head. He put it to my head,” Mr. Nuzi said, as he got into an S.U.V. before driving away from the scene with a bag of personal items. “Thank God I am alive.”
good thing it takes $450 and six months to get a pistol permit
you know else what bothers me about this article? the use of the word "killing" instead of "murder".
also, at the end, the guy says "thank god i'm alive". god really is the only one to thank if he left his door unlocked and didn't have any means to defend himself. IN NYC he left his door "open or unlocked".
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/nyregion/02shoot.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin
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After Fatal Home Invasion, Man Is Sought in Brooklyn
By TRYMAINE LEE
Published: October 1, 2008
The masked gunman kicked in the apartment door, pressed a gun to Xhevdet Nuzi’s head and issued an ultimatum: Hand over the money or someone dies. The robber had already taken hostages — two women from an apartment one floor below, the police said on Wednesday.
“I don’t know what happened,” Mr. Nuzi said outside his Brooklyn apartment hours after the early morning attack. “I was asleep. He said give me the money or I will shoot.”
Then the robber squeezed off a gunshot. And then another.
One of the women, Jessica Enger, 31, dropped to the floor, shot in the arm and chest. She was taken to Lutheran Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 7:12 a.m., the police said.
“This is a tragedy that anyone who knew her would feel,” Vivian Enger, an aunt of the victim, said in a telephone interview. She said her niece had a 6-year-old son who was staying with a grandmother at the time of the robbery and shooting.
“She was a loving mother and a very warm, friendly person,” the aunt said.
According to Jessica Enger’s MySpace page, she worked as an aesthetician at the 212 Spa for men in Manhattan and as an office manager at Champion Combustion, a heating and ventilation company in Brooklyn.
Many questions remain about the robbery-turned-killing in Bensonhurst, the police said. The whos and whys are as murky a mystery as the robber’s mode of operation: taking a set of residents as leverage to rob another.
It was unclear whether any money was taken from the apartment, the police said.
There had been no arrests in the killing late Wednesday, the police said.
Friends and neighbors identified the other hostage as Lisa Lee Ananias.
Mr. Nuzi and Ms. Ananias were not harmed.
The police said that about 6 a.m., a masked man crept through a rear door of the building on 85th Street, a wood-frame house fronted by a lawn and wrought-iron fence. The door was either left open or was unlocked, the police said.
The man then took Ms. Enger and Ms. Ananias to Mr. Nuzi’s second-floor apartment, where the attacker demanded money and then shot Ms. Enger, the police said.
“He put the gun to my head. He put it to my head,” Mr. Nuzi said, as he got into an S.U.V. before driving away from the scene with a bag of personal items. “Thank God I am alive.”
