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WhiteTara

(29,722 posts)
Sat May 7, 2016, 05:30 PM May 2016

New York man found in bay wearing cement shoes was asphyxiated

https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-man-found-bay-wearing-cement-shoes-asphyxiated-200719903.html?nhp=1

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man whose face was wrapped in duct tape and feet encased in concrete when his body washed ashore in New York City this week was killed by asphyxia, the New York City Medical Examiner's Office said on Friday.

The body of the 28-year-old victim, Peter Martinez of Brooklyn, was wrapped in garbage bags and his arms were tied behind him when he was found on Monday along the shore in the borough's Sheepshead Bay area.

"The cause of death is asphyxia, including covering of the mouth and nose by duct tape," said Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson in a statement. "The manner of death is homicide."

There have been no arrests in the case and the investigation is ongoing, according to the New York Police Department.
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New York man found in bay wearing cement shoes was asphyxiated (Original Post) WhiteTara May 2016 OP
Cement shoes? Is NYC seeing a resurgence of the Mafia? octoberlib May 2016 #1
Somebody has been watching a lot of gangster WhiteTara May 2016 #3
Horrible. nt cwydro May 2016 #2
plus 100 Liberal_in_LA May 2016 #11
Its like my first inclination is to make a smartassed comment, but, this is too horrible Warren DeMontague May 2016 #4
I know what you mean WhiteTara May 2016 #5
I actually think objectively society and the world are getting less violent Warren DeMontague May 2016 #6
We must not be reading the same news feeds! WhiteTara May 2016 #7
That's the thing - News. NutmegYankee May 2016 #8
Really. I don't know why so many people Mariana May 2016 #10
Difference probably being, 20 years ago we didn't have news feeds. Warren DeMontague May 2016 #9
Assumption being that it's organized crime: It might just be a lone sociopath. lindysalsagal May 2016 #12

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
4. Its like my first inclination is to make a smartassed comment, but, this is too horrible
Sat May 7, 2016, 05:48 PM
May 2016

What a nightmarish thing to do to someone.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
6. I actually think objectively society and the world are getting less violent
Sat May 7, 2016, 05:51 PM
May 2016

Doesnt mean this isnt awful, though.

NutmegYankee

(16,201 posts)
8. That's the thing - News.
Sat May 7, 2016, 06:41 PM
May 2016

While violent crime is going down, the news on it keeps increasing. People think the world is far more dangerous than it really is because they only see violence on the news.

Mariana

(14,860 posts)
10. Really. I don't know why so many people
Sat May 7, 2016, 10:02 PM
May 2016

who hear about ONE horrible crime tend to jump to the conclusion that similar horrible crimes are going on all the time, everywhere. I personally know people who honestly believe that tens or even hundreds of thousands of children are being kidnapped by strangers every year.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
9. Difference probably being, 20 years ago we didn't have news feeds.
Sat May 7, 2016, 07:48 PM
May 2016

Violent Crime is down domestically and globally there is less fighting.

It may not seem like it, but it is true.

http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-09-29/world-actually-becoming-more-peaceful-believe-it-or-not

lindysalsagal

(20,733 posts)
12. Assumption being that it's organized crime: It might just be a lone sociopath.
Sun May 8, 2016, 12:54 PM
May 2016

Sadly, we've closed the mental assylums and made treatment for the poor impossible. Until we wake up and get it that psychological medical care should be free, this will keep happening, along with daily shootings.

Instead, we reduce social worker's and government social intervention programs so that the rich can get richer.

I'm tired of wringing my hands when we refuse to do anything meaningful to change it.

Poor man's family.

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