Here’s another one of those sketchy situations where it pays to be vigilant and trust no one! Online Sales with a face-to-face meet-up.
After a series of events that included a police car chase and a collision with a yellow cab, the BMW was found in Upper Manhattan on Wednesday morning, its front end crushed. Mr. Blake, who the police believe was driving the BMW at the time of the collision, was gone, but the police officers examining the wreck found Mr. Ajimotokan.
He was in the trunk – alive, barely, though he was bound, with multiple stab wounds and with his ear partially severed.
Looks like the police are still piecing things together, tho a more recent story can be found here. When somebody you don’t know sets up a meeting, be it a car sale or a blind date you should NEVER trust them until they are otherwise vetted.
Hopefully Mr. Ajimotokan will make a full recovery. And let him rest assured that because his injuries were called by a knife, this is NOT a “Gun Death”!
Weerd:
Hey, thanks for the hattip! I wasn’t expecting you to use that one, especially since the victim isn’t dead yet. (According to the NYT, he’s recovering.)
Here’s another “gun” death for you from Houston. I would email this to you, but I’d have to use the phone and I hate using the phone for email.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/hso/7406727.html
“As Matthews, whose wife was also at the restaurant, accompanied the woman at about 11 p.m., the husband was waiting for her, friends said. The alleged attacker, Ronald Lee Newman, 51, punched Matthews, who fell to the ground and lost consciousness, police said.”
This is particularly sad from my point of view; the victim was, by all accounts, a really good guy who was acting in an gentlemanly fashion, and died as a result.
Good to hear he’s still recovering, it still shows a dangerous situation with life-threatening brutality. I thought it worked quite well with the theme, and my game is to raise awareness to what is discounted whe people use the metric “Gun Death” not to blood dance.