Killed for respect
Hardhat spelled out reason for shooting boss
IT WAS ALL about respect.
The hardhat who fatally shot his foreman before taking his own life at a Hell’s Kitchen construction site shot the boss because the man didn’t respect him, according to a note found on the gunman’s body, police sources said Friday.
“These low life care about no one but themselves so they can go down with me,” scrawled Samuel Perry, 44.
“Respect take you a long way,” said the note which was found in his right pants pocket after he shot himself in the head. “Now some will learn to respect their worker.”
Perry returned to the construction site on W. 59th St. near 11th Ave. at 7 a.m. Thursday — two days after he was fired.
He was canned after a fight with foreman Christopher Sayers, 37, over a wall, cops said.
Perry shot Sayers on the 37th floor, then went into a locked bathroom on the fifth floor, where he killed himself, according to police sources.
Officers with the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit forced open the door and saw Perry slumped on the floor with a pistol in his hand, sources said.
Witnesses said the enraged carpenter, whom they say had a reputation for being a hothead, shot Sayers once, and then a second time as he was sprawled out on the ground.
Perry, known as The Bull by co-workers for his strength, calmly handed his tools to a colleague before firing the fatal shots.
“These are yours now,” he said, according to the witness.
The Queens man, who lived in Far Rockaway, hinted to his neighbors that he plotted revenge for being fired.
Perry left his pit bull, Bruno, tied to a neighbor’s railing at 5 a.m., said the man who identified himself only as Mike.
He had asked Mike to watch the pup because he was “going away to take care of something.”