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The brazen drive-by shooting in Williamsburg yesterday apparently started as a dispute between motorists. A gunman in a green Nissam Maxima fired at 38-year-old Ramon Blas, hitting the victim once in the side as he sat inside his car sometime after 2:30 pm. Wounded, Blas managed to drive his gray BMW SUV a few blocks before colliding with a parked car at the corner of Lorimer and Ten Eyck streets. He then "staggered into the driver's compartment of a slowly moving UPS van," the Post reports. The UPS driver ran into a nearby packaging store, shouting: "Someone just got shot inside my truck," according to the Daily News.
According to anonymous police sources quoted in both tabloids, Blas might have "goaded" or "dared his adversary to open fire." When cops arrived, they transferred the Long Island City resident — who according to the Daily News was on parole until 2012 for robbery charges — to Woodhull Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The incident happened in front of the Williamsburg campaign office for Mayoral loser Bill Thompson, and campaign workers who witnessed the shooting said Blas was looking for cover when he climbed into the delivery truck.
The victim's mother told the Daily News that her son would have been in Puerto Rico on the day of the crime, had his credit card not been rejected as he booked the trip. "I could not believe it," said Lydia Blas, 61, whose other son Robert Mara was shot to death at age 33 in 2001. "He was a jokester. He never bothered nobody."
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you know this comment was coming.... "He was a jokester. He never bothered nobody." - yet on parole until 2012 for robbery charges...
so was this the credit card company's fault?
woodhull ... of course he died. one less suv on the road.
One less parolee on the street.
The Maxima seems to be the criminal's car of choice.
How was a guy on parole (with six arrests on his record) for robbery driving a BMW SUV?
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Yes, bad choice on his part. Should have bought a Maxima and spend the rest of the money on a gun.
If he had paid off his credit card instead of leasing a BMW SUV he could have afforded the plane ticket to PR.
Speaking of which, can parolees leave the state, let alone the country?
If they get permission from the parole officer.
PR is part of the US.
Did anyone else note that the deceased's brother was also shot dead a few years ago? Not feeling this as a "random" drive by case