Met Opera Singer's Son Stabbed to Death in Queens

2009_01_qnsstba.jpg The teenage son of a Metropolitan Opera singer was fatally stabbed a few blocks from Elmhurst Hospital in Queens on Monday night during a confrontation with a gang of ten thugs believed to part of the Latin Kings gang. Nicholas Donaldi-Subero, 18, had gone to Queens from his mother's Upper East Side apartment to pick up his date; around 6 p.m.—about a block away from the 82nd Street-Jackson Heights 7 station—he was approached by the teen gang, who believed him responsible for a recent stabbing of one of their own. Donaldi-Subero's family deny it, but police say he was a member of rival gang, ABK, Always Banging Kings, and he was arrested three times in the past six months. His mother, alto Maria Donaldi, tells the Daily News, "he was the sweetest kid. I don't know about gang affiliation. Kids can be sneaky, but I'm the last to know."

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The kid was an Upper East Sider? Well, that's what you get for slumming with the lowlifes...

aren't kings really powerful dudes? what kind of gay ass gang name is always banging really powerful dudes?

'Always Banging Kids?' Are they associated with NAMBLA?

""he was the sweetest kid. I don't know about gang affiliation."

This is not news. News would be a story that goes like this
"The mother said her son was a bum and troublemaker.

She told a reporter, 'The little bastard was a pain in the neck ever since he popped out, the same day his old man left me. He was always dissing me, never paying attention and hanging our with skells. He got what he deserves'".

Now THAT would be news.

He wanted to be "street", and ended up bleeding out in the gutter.

Latin Kings and Always Banging Kings? These stupid beaners are obviously too dumb to come up with a cool name, or at least one in Spanish. Jeez..at least give me something like "El Milagro de Pendejo"......... orr maybe "Not-banging-hard-enough-to-afford-a-gun-because-mommy-is-a-crack-whore-and-daddy's-in-Rikers".

Yeah, like "Los Magnificos" or the "Los Mags", the Byzantine Latinos, or "Byz-Lats" or the "Toros".

This lady is clueless. Why did she bother having a kid?

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Back in the day, they used to call a kid who wanted to be down a "holiday thug" aka an occasional thug.

I agree on the ABK name though. WTF? Gangs are running out of manly names?

"Kids can be sneaky, but I'm the last to know."

Does she know now? I doubt it.

The mother has her head in the sand. From the Daily News account it would seem the kid was a thug.

The police allow gangs to do as they please and it surprises people?

Yo, we be ABK
We eat KFC
From the UES
to my RIP


Jackson Heights is a breeding ground for gangs and criminal activity. This is just a disgusting story

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