Met Opera Singer's Son Stabbed to Death in Queens

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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By John Del Signore in News on January 21, 2009 11:15 AM

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Splicer

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

whitecastlerock

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

MFer

Yo, we be ABK

We eat KFC

From the UES

to my RIP

Dirk

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

NannyState

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

Does she know now? I doubt it.

Wza

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?

angry_pickle

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

Jerky

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".

Rocknrope

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

Rocknrope

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

thefacts

""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.