Bronx: Two Men Kill Each Other
By EMILY VASQUEZ
Published: September 7, 2006
Two men shot each other to death in a drug deal gone awry Tuesday night on Creston Avenue, the police said yesterday. The police said the customer, a 30-year-old man they did not identify, tried to rob Edwin Roman, 17, and shot him in the leg, severing an artery. The men struggled and Mr. Roman grabbed the gun and shot the other man twice in the chest and once in a shoulder, the police said.
Mr. Roman’s 18-year-old brother, Alexis, said he heard gunshots from their apartment nearby and moments later his brother stumbled into their first-floor hallway, bleeding. “He was leaving footprints of blood,” he said, adding that he was still clutching the gun, a .357 Magnum. The customer was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital and Mr. Roman died later yesterday morning.
By EMILY VASQUEZ
Published: September 7, 2006
Two men shot each other to death in a drug deal gone awry Tuesday night on Creston Avenue, the police said yesterday. The police said the customer, a 30-year-old man they did not identify, tried to rob Edwin Roman, 17, and shot him in the leg, severing an artery. The men struggled and Mr. Roman grabbed the gun and shot the other man twice in the chest and once in a shoulder, the police said.
Mr. Roman’s 18-year-old brother, Alexis, said he heard gunshots from their apartment nearby and moments later his brother stumbled into their first-floor hallway, bleeding. “He was leaving footprints of blood,” he said, adding that he was still clutching the gun, a .357 Magnum. The customer was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital and Mr. Roman died later yesterday morning.