Crime Blotter
So That's How The Game Is Played
Naouful, who apparently hadn't given much thought to how the game works, wandered the neighborhood for a while, taking it all in, before turning himself over to the cops. We expect that whether or not his story holds up, he'll be charged as a terminal dumbass.
As one neighbor told the Daily News, "That's crazy. That's stuff you see in the movies or hear about in the suburbs-not here in the 'hood."
Tiny Servings
Movie cliches aside, some people really can't handle the truth, and some of those people have guns. One such person let his frustrations be known Monday night, we suspect after learning that those delicious Tasti D Lite treats really weren't that low-fat after all. Apparently realizing he'd dieted in vain, the man sat with a gun outside the store drinking Heineken until just before closing time, when he went inside and confronted the owner, 52-year-old Farshad Eshghi. One can only imagine what they said in those few seconds before Eshghi was shot twice in the chest and the gunman fled the scene. Eshghi was left in critical condition, and police are still looking for one very disillusioned gunman.
Bad Babysitter
Ah, the "ex-con boyfriend." They're right up there with the classic "ex-boyfriend" when it comes to people you don't want babysitting your kids.
Jessica Wood, a 24-year-old Staten Island woman, apparently thought otherwise a few weeks back when she asked her ex-con boyfriend, Julius Butler, to watch her two-year-old daughter while she went to work.
It took the ME almost a month to determine that the child's mysterious death on July 23 was caused by multiple blunt traumas to the abdomen. In short, it seems someone punched the little girl to death. Cops believe that someone may well be the charming Mr. Butler, who served nine years after pleading guilty to manslaughter in 1991 for killing an adult male. He remains in custody.
One Bang, Five Whimpers
As a long hot summer limps to a close, it's that time of year when New Yorkers celebrate one last big fling by whipping out the firearms.
On Sunday evening, for instance, a man full of piss and vinegar, among other things, attended one of those annual community festivals in Queens and fulfilled tradition by shooting people. Lilley Lovell, 21, was killed, and three others were injured.
Early reports hinted that the shootings may have been in retaliation for an incident earlier in the evening involving a man who was allegedly "chased down and beaten by an angry mob." No further details were available concerning that little-reported incident, and no one's been arrested for the shooting, either.
(That same night, incidentally, five other people were shot and killed during fracases in Brooklyn and the Bronx, but the papers all lumped them together under Night of Violencestyle leads.)