Victim's Boyfriend Attempts Suicide, Taken Into Custody

You guys, lets not forget how important it is to write Michael. I guess Tumi's mom doesn't realize that it looks bad that she hasn't actually dignified him in person. He's a kid who was dating a kid from another family-her kid. We know what happened, but we also know that Mike is young, he's been an adult for two whole years now. She should show him support. She's a kid she's known for 2 1/2 years. For those who might be interested, his address is as follows:

Bellevue Hospital Prison Unit

c/o Michael Cordero

462 1st Avenue

New York, NY 11234

Please be supportive. We know that sometimes things happen in relationships between college age children. Let's not judge. Let's just hope that this will bring the two together. Professor Moja, I'm really sorry for all you've had to indure. I hope that you realize that having Michael around will help you heal quicker. If I get my way, maybe we can get Whitney, Mrs. Ciccone Ritchie and the Rosses to take us all to lunch-they owe me big time. Celebrities have an uncanny way of making everything alright just with their smiles and a few hugs. I know they can help heal where you hurt. I'll be in touch m'am.

Well madam, I guess you should know that Boitumelo's mom has been working with a lawyer. Usually, if you know "your own", sometimes when inner city black families become successful, they show off a little. I know that when an american family is sucessful, after the home and expensive cars, they usually get a family attorney. They usually aren't famous at all, so they tell their attorney/their attorney gives them the option to have anything that happens in the family publicized. That means if they find a million dollars, if they trip over a live wire and are miraculously saved, if they somehow die, no matter what it is, it gets publicized. That's what's happening here.I knew her and Michael because they frecuented a healthfood store in Greenwich Village where I used to work called Lifethyme Complete Natural Market. The cashiers are all women and two of them are older. They would go on and on about how this one girl who usually came in with another girl (Jennifer, the 21 year old who speaks out against him in the media)knew a girl who just happened to be african was set for life since she had parents who both taught at one of the most prestigious universities in the U.S. etc. Tumi was arrogant but was a bit refined and always seem to remind him that no matter how hard he tried, he would never in life, as long as he lived on planet earth, achieve what she had. She lived in a really prestigious area in the city and when he'd come over she'd remind him "well, YOU couldn't afford to live here." That doesn't mean she was bad, but that helps, especially when your boyfriend is real and grew up living a regular life. Later, she came to the store with another friend and she got her to admit that she liked him a lot and was just jealous. They met at a party and she was upset that he had chosen to meet Tumi instead of her. She said "Tumi is WEAK, and I could give him a run for his money." I don't think he wanted that. Guys like him don't take that type of girl seriously. He wanted a good girl.She said that hispanic guys were like the black guys. When they're in a mixed setting, they usually go for the other blacks & hispanics. I noticed Michael and really wanted to meet him. I was carrying a secret. I worked for a living and my dad was a singer. He sang during the time of Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight & The Pips and The Chi-Lites(Oh girl, Have you seen her, etc.). Music was changing then. Performers were adults, but children were being discovered and the children of entertainers were being signed. Whitney Houston, Janet & Michael Jackson, 3T Tito Jackson's sons and Gerald Levert are some of the kids we knew who got the chance to record since their parents said it was okay. People in new york know what I mean when I say that the music industry is just like they are. The blacks are like the blacks in the south. My father knew that I and my brother were being looked at and asked about, but during that time, older more mature singers were turning their backs on us and had vicious plans for the younger people there since they felt that they would be taking their place. People like Aretha Franklin (who has three sons in their 30s), the group WAR (The world is a ghetto)Diana Ross' daughter Tracey Ellis Ross Maxwell (now an actor on the UPN show "Girlfriends")and others have children who have NEVER recorded or done anything. That's because their parents thought they'd be taking their place and that they'd be deemed "washed up." Gerald Levert sang for awhile, but Mr. Levert (Eddie Levert)reminded us that his music would always be for the old so that he won't pass him up and he will eventually die from some kind of health issue because of his eating habits. "I'm gonna cultivate that now" he said. My family, in the meantime, was bannished from the industry and sent to live in a regular neighborhood in Chicago. My dad was a singer, so he got us a home and paid the mortgage for 14 years. That means, we moved in when I was 4 years old and the next payment wasn't due until we turned 18 years old. In this neighborhood, The Chi-Lites told neighbors who we were and designated a Bete Noir for me, personally. That person was 6 year old Lisa Raye, you know the actor from the player's club. I've known her since I was 4 years old. She then knew a pair of teenage girls who knew that my father was a singer. "Why are they living in THIS neighborhood" they'd say. One day while I was playing alone in our backyard they brought over a little light skinned girl who would otherwise be cute except for the Chicago girl scowl on her face and said to me "Do you see this little girl, she's your age and I'm gonna make sure that she follows you through life little boy!" From that day on, she has always been around nagging me, spreading things, telling the world "One day I'm gonna be a star." People would go, "what do you mean?" Then she'd tell them my story. Later, when I began my second year in high school, I saw the same teenage girl Lisa would come around with and she told me that they were paid by some guys from the music industry-the Chi-Lites to terrorize me and besmirch my reputation but that if I could deal with the fact she will always be around to nag me and make sure I had absolutely NO friends (because of rumors), that one day I would be able to sue if nothing else. The key was to relocate to New York. You could find a spanish new yorker like Tumi's boyfriend who would love to hear your story or one of the guys from the Latino Fan Club (in Chicago we always have hopes that they'll become more main stream). Through the years Lisa has made sure that I have been fired or downsized or written up at every job I've ever had. I forgot to mention that there was a kid who Lisa knew when I was about 12, Lisa was 14. He had convinced his mom to relocate from the south because he had dreams of becoming famous, but didn't know what he wanted to do. He didn't even know if he himself had talent. Anyway, Lisa had become a flower. In Chicago there are no girl gangs, but some gangsters would select girls in the neighborhood to represent them. That meant the new kid could hang out with the popular crowd. He worked and was about 19 or 20. This is turning into a book. Anyway, Lisa had actually met this guy out. She has always had older friends, in this case, she used to go out with that teenage girl since she was older now. She later found out that this guy started offering money to some of the guys from my block to "do" him. He couldn't get the gangbangers, because he would've gotten beaten up, he only wanted one or two of them anyway. He wanted them to be pure, so they had to be younger. He couldn't get spanish guys because they all have supportive moms and dads. A little black boy only has his mom because they are the way they are and they refuse to change, so he chose them. So he went to my block since most of us were young. He got to know my brother and offered him money just because. Later, he asked about his little brother, me! He later would go on about how ripe I was going to be when I turned 13. When I did turn 13 he would say, "That d*ck is ripe now, you better get it now, there are a lot of girls out there that will mess it up for later." This was a guy and this guy was as my brother said "old enough to be out of high school even though he dropped out lightyears ago." Everyone just laughed because he couldn't be serious, but he worked on them mentally, even Harold. I later heard my big brother say that Damon had offered some of the kids $200-$400 to let him come over and sleep with them,especially the ones he really liked. There was a kid named Harold Mac who can be found on myspace.com whose mom lived on the next block who had been bad as a child and had somehow gotten sent to a juvenile detention center for hot wiring a car and driving around in it. Harold lived in Altgeld Gardens-the black housing projects. There, he new some guys who taught him about what they referred to as "the other kind of sex" so by the time he was 13, he knew all about it and when he went to the detention center, he was forced to there. When he got out he was 14 and told everyone he was ready for sex, but this type was a little different. When Damon came around, after hearing things from Harold, we were all shocked that Damon wasn't only willing and old since most of us were in seventh and eight grade, but he offered money! He'd mostly offer $200, but he'd only pay $100-$150 a visit.The guy who lived across the street from Harold got $150 $200 a lot. Paris Heller, a light skinned kid from my block, always got $400 a visit. Paris told us "he said he worked hard for the money, you know, like the song." I didn't have to worry because they all knew my dad was sort of famous and were forbidden to talk or play with me because of it. That's how I grew up-alone. They never ever talked or played with me at all. I was so afraid for our neighborhood. Our parents had careers, but were not spanish, so there were a substantial number of single parent families there. This went on until the guy became famous. He's now Damon Williams the comedian. When he became famous, Paris, or "P" as Damon would call him, would come up to his shows and tell the crowd that this had all happened, and for many years. It started when Prince was becoming famous and ended around the time of the Selena movie. All the comedians would come out to quiet him down, all of them, Mr. Mac, Mrs. Givens, Sommore, etc. and they'd beg him to come back stage.By this time since Damon said Paris was embarrassing him regularly, he had somehow given the kid A.I.D.S., so that was something else for the neighborhood to deal with. We had never known anyone with it before. Damon is a decent friend, but he 's got a bad side. Damon got fed up and plotted his demise. Paris was 13 when he met Damon and 25 or so when Damon had him killed. He was murdered around the time of the Selena movie. I guess I just thought that with Michael's help, I could be protected since Damon knows I'm the only one brave enough to tell this story. I miss Paris greatly, he didn't have to die. I didn't mean to write so much, but I don't know who to turn to. Finding a lawyer to take the case has been extremely difficult and I'm afraid of what Lisa and Damon may have planned for me. Michael, I wrote you a couple of times in the hospital, I'll write again. I hope you can help.

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WHAT A PITY!

Boy ! You people have serious issues with this guys Race, & Attire ! Why is he a thug ? Because rocks his hat to the back ! Because he flashed the middle finger ? Because he's Spanish ? You all need to lose the whole prejudged bigotry and focus on the fact the he killed this woman ! Also, Most women like the "Thug" type because they either think they can control them through emotions . They feel that they need a thug to stand-up for them when need be . OR it could just be that some women can get to know a guy for what he really is and look past the imperfections . The problem with that scam is sometimes the guy has issues with his maturity and can't handle competition . So what happens ? He lashes-out under the guise of "Protecting his Woman" ! It's all pimpin people, that's what relationships are based on "Pimpin" ! Somebody has to be the Dominant, & The other has to be Submissive . It's just deciding in the beginning who will play what role ! Posted by; "Still Not Amused"

send him to Iraq

Send him to Iraq

Being well-schooled and having led a sheltered life as a youngster, she was pretty much a lamb being pursued by a wolf.

As I mentioned in another post, my daughter attended school with Tumi. Tumi's mom is black and her dad is white; both from South Africa. My daughter told me that Tumi had told her that back in South Africa, their safety was often threatened because her mom was a anti-apartied and human rights activist there.

My daughter also tells me that Tumi was a very sweet girl.

Now, please, out of respect for this poor girl (the dead) and her family who have worked so hard to bring justice in this world, can you all stop with the racist remarks? Really? Given the circumstances, it's pretty sick.

The guy was a thug. The girl a sweet beauty. Seems she WAS trying to get away from him. That's why he killed her. I wish the media would stop trying to portray them as young lovers gone wrong. We all made relationship mistakes and misjudgements when we were young. Seems she was trying to correct her mistake. The beast killed beauty.

R.I.P., Tumi.

#42 That's why most Hispanic men don't date outside of their race either because of people like you.

Sorry, dude, but I regularly see plenty of "macho" latino dudes dating asian and black women...hmmm. I guess it's safe to say that measuring up to your mate is obviously a large part of the "machiiissssimooo"!?

Interesting that she could pass for Dominican, with respect to facial features and recessive hariline. The punk looks like a Rican dirtbag.

Umm, that should be "sneer" - for the numerous pedantic types that seem to congregate here...hehe

Yes, he beat ber out of frustration and jealousy. If it was a sexual thing, it would have been ok IMO.

#45 Of course not, silly - it's the smirk and the snear!

she's not here anymore because of a jealous spic thug. he knew he wasn't good enough for her. he was jealous because he wasn't invited to her father's wedding party because he's a loser.

do girls love losers? sure but this one had a jealous streak that would beat your face in.

don't forget, he beat her. that's the lowest of all forms of loser, one who beats women.

how can anyone be on the side of a loser who beats women. He beat her, then murdered her.

in between he probably lied to her.

Wait, he's a "thug" b/c he's wearing his hat backwards?

this girl was Black. so, all of you idiots that keep writing racist, ugly and stereotypical things about african-americans and hispanics -- newsflash, Boitumelo wouldn't have liked you. you are insulting her race, and insulting people of color. i am referring to comments such as the one i've pasted below, as well as to several others. i don't understand why race had to become a topic on this blog at all. an abusive young man murdered his girlfriend. this happens amongst all races. scott petersen is one example. -- Kerry

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someone wrote:

It's not that the good girls fall for the thug loser types, but rather that the latter are more aggressive in their pursuit. Consequently, the wimpy and goofy Caucasian types fall by the wayside and settle with the plain Janes or the little Asian gals (hehe). Anyways, it will be gratifying to know that this punk will experience prison love with greasy 300 lb black dudes for the rest of his life!

he may rot in hell but he has bravado to approach a woman like that, according to the poster above.

maybe they'll meet in hell.

This is for #43:

Not all Spanish men are like that dumb-ass boy. I am a well educated Hispanic man and found your reply really racist and stupid.

That's why most Hispanic men don't date outside of their race either because of people like you.

And for the psycho, murderer guy, I hope you get your asshole torn for beign a pussy. Beating a woman makes you worthless and a scum of the earth. Rot in hell buddy... rot in hell.

Just one more reason for girls not to mess with spanish guys. Remember the the girl who was shot to death during her wedding day by her jealous ex?

Horrible. As for the why, why, whys...as in why did she stay with him. There's a simple explanation -- for whatever reasons she felt untethered and insecure so she settled to the point where when he hit her she probably blamed herself. Besides he probably begged for forgiveness and made her feel better about herself. And maybe just maybe he was actually nice to her. Well at least ONCE.

She's looks so happy in the pictures, like "Look at this Prince Charming. I'm so lucky he picked ME." What was she thinking? Poor thing.

Mills College is an all-girls school? I wonder if Cordero had a say in her college selection?

Her mother is still in South Africa on school business? I guess there's really nothing you can do at this point (?!)

The spic dirtbag just couldn't get over the fact that he wasn't good enough for her. That's why he wasn't invited to her dad's wedding and she was ready to break up with him. Now he'll be spending the rest of his life with a different kind of girlfriend who will welcome him with open arms. Such irony - cruel, almost.

#25 haha The Ultimate Karma - I'm just praying that he has no contacts in prison and will have to fend for himself!

did anyone see any interviews of cordero's friends?

they mentioned his family but no pictures of them.

who were his Beacon school friends? did he provide them with drugs? He works as a security guard and can afford to go out to the west coast with her.

He had friends at the Beacon School?? Is this an exclusive school? I guess networking is a good skill to have in life - unfortunately not in this case.

I know, it's that age old adage again, smart girl falls for low life thug who then murders her or pimps her out or get her hooked on smack.

oh, I forgot, He BEATS her.

Can't forget that part, he's a winner with bravado,

Beating a woman is such a turn on, I'm getting moist.

Cordero better hope he's got some homies in the big house for protection, or else mami's gonna have to send him lots of KY and a durable set of knee-pads. I would think that a little young spanish guy who happens to have beaten and murdered a young girl should be rather popular - regardless of race, no? hehe

then you get murdered in your own home, to be discovered by neighbors because your apartment smells like rotting flesh.

who's the idiot? What's your SAT score?

Ivy League? Mills College ain't Ivy League. There's only 8 Ivies--and Penn State, Notre Dame, and NYU ain't one of them.

No, you idiot, it's just the age old case of the brainy beauty who is never approached by cowering wimps like yourself, but rather the thug punk with the bravado.

#19- Typical guest-troll comment.

I knew it, girls like being catcalled by lowlifes,

according to number 20,

here chica chica mamasita sita my facey.

Is that pursuit aggressive enough?

This fckin piece of sht was beating her??! I wish I could have 10 min with him alone along with a 2x4!

He's the type who gets all fidgety when you look at his girlfriend and he starts wrapping his arms all around her. Actually, I notice that with most hispanic dudes LOL.

Gosh. It would really be unfortunate if Corderos new boyfriend in prison ends up being the jealous type too. Now wouldn't it?

This guy is a class AAA piece of shit.

haha He'll surely regret what he did every time he kneels before Bubba and Co and then gets pounded LOL

Yes! Cordero should be VERY popular in prison - I think they reserve a special place for those who beat and murder pretty young girls. Good thing he didn't have the balls to just jump off the roof. He's gonna wish he had! LOL

Police took him to Roosevelt Hospital and allegedly told the hospital staff, "I killed my girlfriend. I couldn't take it, so I tried to kill myself."

Why would the police say that? Unless you forgot another noun in that sentence.

10 & 12

It's not that the good girls fall for the thug loser types, but rather that the latter are more aggressive in their pursuit. Consequently, the wimpy and goofy Caucasian types fall by the wayside and settle with the plain Janes or the little Asian gals (hehe). Anyways, it will be gratifying to know that this punk will experience prison love with greasy 300 lb black dudes for the rest of his life!

Guys like that often learn it at home. A dad or boyfriend punching his mother around, for example. You don't learn that from your friends, the movies, or music. Its gotta be deep in you to do something like that.

Awfully tragic story.

middle finger? real class... this guy is a loser. it's just too bad he killed the winner.

RIP.

Not shocked but can think of a scarier scenario.

say you dated this girl and this jealous boyfriend comes after you for dating her.

wow ... he looks like a real winner. Anybody shocked at the results here?

Let me save you the trouble.

Am I bitter? Gee, ya think?

It was the oppression of Apartheid that created this monster! If the White Man hadn't oppressed these people, all of Africa would be a paradise and this woman would still be alive!

Why do beautiful girls with a bright future waste their time with these kind of losers?

I thought girls are smarter than boys? guess not, if a thug can get an ivy league pussy.

oh well, saves us the trouble of dating a sloppy second with baggage and one thug goes to jail for the rest of his life.

win-win.

He's not a "nigga" you dumb anti-social fuck..why do these educated pretty young girls fall for the bad guy?

this must have been one of those 'cry for help' girlfriend slayings.

Let's see ... smart girl with a thug boyfriend ... that's been a common theme for, oh, decades.

Man, this is really sad.

Wow...

And he looks like such a nice, well-rounded, worldly, guy

who would've thought

Looks like a douche.

Nick S,

True, true. My money's on a horizontal slash.

why slit your wrists when you're on the roof of a building? just take the dive.

this kid didn't want to die.

What's his SAT score? A jealous dummy is what he is.

He can't even kill himself.