Pants on the ground proves fatal to career criminal

[The Postmaster General]

One of the worst fashion trends of the last 2 decades gets its comeuppance.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpps/news/dpg...091218_5152028

Killer Tripped on Baggy Pants, Plunged to Death after Slaying Three
Updated: Friday, 18 Dec 2009, 10:14 AM EST
Published : Friday, 18 Dec 2009, 9:42 AM EST

By LARRY CELONA, JOHN DOYLE, and LAURIE KAMENS

(The New York Post) - A career criminal who slaughtered three members of a family in their apartment in New York's trendy Upper West Side Thursday plunged to his death after tripping over his baggy pants.

The bloodshed began when the killer barged into the family's third floor apartment and opened fire at around 1:45 p.m. Thursday, near a string of upscale shops.

Gunman Hector Quinones blew away 24-year-old Carlos Rodriguez Jr., and his father Carlos Rodriguez Sr., 52, and then repeatedly stabbed grandfather Fernando Gonzalez, 87, to death before the elder Rodriguez's wife and adult daughter walked unwittingly into the carnage in the apartment they all shared.

As soon as Gisela Rodriguez, 49, and her daughter, Leyanis, 28, walked inside, Quinones, 44, opened fire again at the mother, grazing the back of her head, police said.

He then went after Gisela's daughter, who scrambled for safety and ran to a nearby bedroom. The killer was inches away from grabbing her but tripped over his low-slung pants, sources said.

The horrified woman managed to slam and lock the door just in time, only to find the bloodied bodies of her brother and dad inside.

A relentless Quinones kicked the door in and lunged for Leyanis, but she was able to make it to a fire escape, screaming for help to construction workers on the roof of the building next door.

"She just ran in and told the contracting guys there was a shooting, there's somebody who got shot," said the building manager, who declined to identify herself. "She was hysterical, she couldn't talk."

Meanwhile, her wounded mother scrambled to safety out the front door.

Fleeing empty-handed, Quinones ditched his gun, a .380-caliber semiautomatic pistol loaded with hollow-point bullets, and made a dash down a rear fire escape.

But again, his low-slung pants fell to his ankles, tripping him and sending him falling three stories to his death, authorities said.

Investigators found a "significant amount" of heroin and a smaller amount of cocaine inside the apartment, as well as a cash-stuffed lockbox that police confiscated, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

The suspect, who has 14 prior arrests for offenses that include manslaughter, assault, drugs and robbery, knew Rodriguez Sr. from when they were in prison together, sources said.

A little bit old, but I forgot to post it before and had been reminded of this story during American Idol last night.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsv2LrdXf1Y

[AceD]

Goodness.

My first thought, though, was that Idol's Pants-on-the-floor guy was a career criminal who got busted after he was TV, kinda like when fugitives get caught via the Kiss Cam at baseball games.

Thank goodness that's not true.

[FireCaptain4]

Not only was this guy a despicable, cowardly, murdering fucknut, but also a colossal dumbass? Big surprise there.



Good riddance. Too bad the fall couldn't have happened before he decided to kill three others.

[Cop No. 633]

Originally Posted by AceD

Goodness.

My first thought, though, was that Idol's Pants-on-the-floor guy was a career criminal who got busted after he was TV, kinda like when fugitives get caught via the Kiss Cam at baseball games.

Thank goodness that's not true.

haha, I thought the same thing. But I'm glad it can be finally written in history that some asshole died because he sagged his pants. It's too bad he had to kill three people.

[echo_bravo]

The suspect, who has 14 prior arrests for offenses that include manslaughter, assault, drugs and robbery

14 prior arrests huh? Sweet Jesus

[BadCoverVersion]

Originally Posted by CosmicPuppet

haha, I thought the same thing. But I'm glad it can be finally written in history that some asshole died because he sagged his pants. It's too bad he had to kill three people.

Parroted.