Photo Credit: NY Daily News Three-year-old Gabriel Estevez desperately screamed for help as he dangled from a forth story window at Morrisania Apartments in the Bronx on Saturday, but none of his neighbors were able to save him and they watched in horror as he plummeted to his death, reports the NY Daily News.[1] “He was screaming for help. By the time we got across the street he had already fell,” said neighbor Frank White, 33, who jumped a fence to reach the child. Want to Keep Up With NewsOne.com? LIKE Us On Facebook! Bystanders rushed to Gabriel’s aid after he landed in a grassy area. White said he pulled grass from the boy’s mouth and gave him CPR, inducing only a single breath from the dying boy before another person tried CPR and an ambulance arrived. Residents of the building near Yankee Stadium remembered Gabriel as charming and friendly. “I joke and laugh with him every day,” said neighbor Francisco Valdes, 21, who also tried to prevent the tragedy. “He’s my little man. I miss his l ...
Los Angeles chef, David Viens, 49, has been convicted of second-degree murder after confessing to slow-cooking his wife, Dawn, in a 55-gallon drum filled with water in 2009, reports People.com[1]. Viens claims that he didn’t murder his wife, but that after an argument he tied her up and duct taped her before going to sleep. When we awoke the next morning, he claims that she was dead. Panicking, he took her body to his restaurant, Thyme Contemporary Café, and dumped her 105 lbs body into the drum where he slow cooked her for four days. That is the story he also told his daughter, Jacqueline, who claims that her father and her stepmother seemed ” like they loved each other.” People.com[2] reports: After discovering his wife’s dead body, Viens “panicked because he did not expect to wake up and find her dead,” defense attorney Fred McCurry told the jury. Police used a ruse to capture Viens. After he read a story planted in a local newspaper[3] saying police found his wife’s blood in their h ...
