Upper West Side Tobacco Store Shooting Update

Last Wednesday afternoon, a tobacco store manager was shot during an apparently attempted robbery. Three suspects, who fled the store at Broadway and West 71st Street in a vehicle and were later found at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, were arraigned yesterday. The Daily News reports the "three goons" hail from Delaware and that 25-year-old Joseph Terry "was the mastermind and getaway driver." The masked gunmen were actually two teenage girls, Evette Wynn, 18, and Annquasia Watson, 15; while Watson "kept the door shut, Wynn allegedly fired a round into the ceiling and then shot" the store owner in the stomach. Wynn and Watson left with $2,000. The trio were arraigned on charges including robbery and possession of stolen property; Wynn was also charged with attempted murder.

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ANNQUASIA WATSON? What kind of name is that? Irish, Asian, Romanian, what?

All for just $2k? Man, hope they think it's worth it being in jail for the next few years.

Annquasia. ANNQUASIA! I'm convinced these people just make names up.

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Oh, hooray for my native state.
Stupid Delaware.

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A girl named Annquasia takes up a life of crime and becomes a burden on society while still in her teens? What are the odds?!?

Well I for one applaud this example of gender equality in violent crime. For too long women have butted against the glass ceiling of the criminal world, relegated to gun moll at best. Brava, sisters!

Annquasia? What's next? Naming your kid Adolph Hitler?

Annquasia sounds like a great name for an anti-emetic.

Splicer, don't be stupid No one would name their kid Adolph Hitler.

they came all the way from Delaware to rob the guy?
damn, the economy must be really tough.

Are you really wondering what kind of name that is? I'll give you a clue that I'd bet all I have on...It's not Irish, Asian, or Romanian, and goes in the pile with Shaniqua and Trekwon. It's a new-age black name.

wow fuck all you guys. annquasia, fuck you too!

Sounds like they were having a kind of Queen Latifah "Set It Off" thing going on. Whatever happened to just pulling out boxcutters at the bus stop?

This story is pretty sad. Both girls should be in high school, either having just graduated or in the middle of sophomore year. Instead, they're running around with a 25 year-old who's clever enough to only be the "getaway driver". I hope the courts take that into account when it come time for sentencing, etc.

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