FIT Student, Found In Queens Home, Was Asphyxiated

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Saldana's father with police
The 23-year-old FIT student found dead in her family's Queens home on Sunday night was asphyxiated and the police are investigating her death as a murder. The Post suggests that a recent Facebook message might suggest "a potential stalker": Carmen Saldana had written, "Ain't that a shame. The guy that does like me I don't like but won't leave me alone and the guy that I do like has no clue I like him lol. I think I'll survive lol."

Saldana's body was discovered by her mother, who had returned from her job cleaning homes in the Hamptons. According to the Daily News, she "found the 23-year-old brunette's body in bed covered up to her neck by a comforter, police sources said. The young woman was naked except for a sandal and a sweater wrapped around her arm. She had bruises on her knees and on the right side of her body." Her father Gilberto Saldana said, "I want justice" and said his daughter "had no problems with anyone." The News also reports that Saldana had been married at 18, but her family doesn't suspect "Cesar Quesada. 23, now a police officer in Las Vegas."

The Post also mentions another Facebook message of Saldana's: "OMG am being pimped out by my boss LOL crazy noche." But the Post adds, "It was unclear whether she was referring to job as a waitress or her internship at Complex magazine. A spokeswoman for the magazine described Saldana 'as very calm, balanced, very level headed, a great team player.'"

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nice photo. is that a crime scene simulation? D:

PILLOW FIGHT!

This is a terrible crime. And you are a terrible person.

Just so we're all up to speed on this.


uh, don't you know what D: means, smart-guy?

GOD!

(i was commenting on the poor choice of photo, jerkie.)

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It really doesn't change the fact that you're obnoxious and tasteless. There's ways to articulate these sentiments without crude jokes and emoticons taking the place of a cogent statement.

What are you, 12? I'm sure you're hot shit smoking cloves by some burrito truck in Bushwick, but your rampant posturing here means exactly fuck-all to me.


and youre totally not taking the conversation away from the girl who was murdered. thanks for the lesson in decorum, pops. LOLZomgWTFrotflBBQtgif

Always make sure you're wearing clean underwear and always post status updates using proper spelling and grammar. You never know when you're going to have an 'accident.'

I would recommend finding a new photo, considering she was found in her bed.

Likewise. Given the circumstances of the muder, there's no headshots or something that doesn't eerily invoke how she was killed?

really. how could you pick this as the image to illustrate this story without either being a. an idiot or b. rather insensitive. either way: boo.

I changed it; I simply thought she looked natural and relaxed in the photo, which the Post used.


you are much much smarter than that. pfffft... taking the Post's lead, lol..


She was obviously very beautiful as well as talented. Just incredibly sad.

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seriously poor choice in photo selection gothamist. show some good taste!

Let's hear it for the intarweb! Bringing attention whores and batshit crazy stalkers together better than evar!

Her father Gilberto Saldada said, "I want justice" and said his daughter "had no problems with anyone."

Um, someone had a problem with her.

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