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Noise Complaint Instigated Bronx Dad's Killing

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A Bronx dad was shot dead after telling a neighbor to keep quiet so his family could get some sleep. David Morales was on the phone with his nephew Louie Garcia complaining about the noise, when around 5 a.m. he suddenly went silent. "I heard him trying to breathe over the phone—gasping," said Garcia. "He couldn't talk." He hung up and called back, but instead of Morales a neighbor answered, telling him his uncle had been shot, reports the News. "He felt very cold," said a cousin who rushed to the scene. "It felt like a sponge—it wasn't even stiff. I realized he had taken his last breath." The noisy neighbor and alleged killer—a Panama native and former seaman—fled the scene, but later turned himself in.

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  • tsol

    The sanctuary city policy is the gift that keeps on giving....

  • henryhamilton

    You need to let the dust settle on some of these stories. This one is at best incomplete, and likely somewhat false. Horrible crime. Terrible tragedy. Yada yada. It's just not really news. Is it?

  • nycMinute

    Everyone complains about noisy neighbors (including me), but no one admits to being one. Where are you all?

  • zincink

    at least he turned himself in..he could of just went back to Panama

  • hotstepper

    my new neighbors are worse than colon cancer.

  • Gotham Extremist

    gun

  • Gotham Extremist

    so he can hear him breathe but not the guy shot...... intriguing to say the least.

  • Wza

    Horrible.

  • LaliP

    your avatar is gross.

  • Wza

    Pick you up around 7?

    ;)

  • LaliP

    :)

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