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Cab Dispatcher Killed Outside His Bronx Apartment Building

Yesterday morning, a 42-year-old taxi dispatcher was fatally shot outside his apartment building on Decatur Avenue near East 207th Street. Police say that Michael Lorge was shot twice in the back of his head and his wallet was not taken.

Move over Crazy Cat Ladies of New York, a West End Avenue tenant may just have you beat. The Post reports that court papers have been filed by a building owner against 71-year-old tenant Jacqueline Bartone, calling her apartment a "zoo" and listing the pets that reside with her -- including three dogs, several reptiles and cats, "and as many as a dozen birds, including an African Grey parrot and a macaw parrot."

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