Man charged with N.Y. massacre
NZPA-Reuter New York A man was charged yesterday with killing 10 people, including eight children, on Palm Sunday in what has been described as the biggest mass murder in New York City’s history. The police alleged that the 10 had been killed by Christopher Thomas, aged 34, whom they said had incorrectly believed that the owner of the death house was having an affair with his wife.
The Police Commissioner, Mr Benjamin Ward, said that Thomas already was in custody in a Bronx jail on a rape charge.
Thomas had “erroneously” thought that the house’s owner, Enrique Bermudez, was having an affair with his wife. All of the victims were shot in the head at close range, most of them as they sat watching television on the ground floor of a twostorey house in the borough of Brooklyn. The weapons used had been .22 and .38 hand-guns, the police said. The sole survivor, an 11-month-old girl, was discovered unharmed in a pool of blood.
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