Arrest Made in Brutal Bronx Bat Attack

One suspect has turned himself in to police in the Bronx in connection with the brutal beating of Pelagio De La Cruz, a Boston-area radio talk show host who was visiting his children in University Heights. Police say relatives convinced 20-year-old Gavin Scott to turn himself over to police last night after a widely-circulated surveillance tape showed an unidentified assailant who accompanied Scott savagely beating De La Cruz seven times with a bat outside his daughter's building on September 14th. Police say Scott and his accomplice were driving around looking for someone to mug when they spotted De La Cruz, who is still in critical condition. His daughter tells WCBS: "If you're going to rob somebody, how come you have to hit him until he dies, because he almost died…they just took a bat and they just hit him in the face, over and over again." Scott has been charged with attempted murder and robbery.

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By John Del Signore in News on September 22, 2008 2:23 PM

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#allakem

you is a douche-bag,

for a ghetto, unwashed, diseased douche insertion location.

Jerky

Silly Negro! Stix are for Kidz!

Think2wice

Thank God for the camera.

everyAframe

It's like the 50 Cent song, but with sticks! 50 Cent inspires kids to get the chain!

BLOOD HOUND LYRICS 50 CENT

>Come off, now watch your chain

>Fo' I blow out your brains

>Shells hit your chest go out your back mayn

Spirit of 76

Lock them both away for life. Since they like hanging out together, they can be cellmates forever.

allakem

#7- I don't think so. See his, her or its previous posts. Whatever. Just get mad at that kind of insensitivity, sarcastic or not.

mocanlagunas

#5... I think it's called sarcasm...

ed_Extinct

Scott's family should be jailed as well for breeding this filth.

allakem

#3-Obviously a troll, but what the hell.

"the stupid victim should pay his own hospital bills, his choice to accept a bat to the face."

Obviously, in your protected little life, mommy and daddy were always protecting your dumb little ass so no one could hit you from BEHIND. It happens.

Oh and "butt seks"? Oh, I guess you know about taking it in the behind. Just can't spell it.

Moron.

Rfive

Not only butt seks, but possibly herpes, HIV, chlymidia, and other wonderful social experiments that are festering in our penal system.

GuestShow

punishment ?

A) beat perp with a bat in the face

or

B) 5-10 years free food and butt seks.

damn. tough. i'm all civilized and shit.... so i'll pick B): pay the perp's room and board.

and the stupid victim should pay his own hospital bills, his choice to accept a bat to the face.