Man crushed in Qns. leaves kin in Mexico
A charity worker fatally pinned between his own truck and another while delivering milk to a Queens school leaves behind a wife and daughter in his native Mexico, his former landlord said Tuesday.
Florentino Cruseno Morales, 49, was making the dropoff to those in need during the coronavirus crisis at the Bais Yaakov Academy of Queens on Metropolitan Ave. near 125th St. in Kew Gardens, when he died early Monday.
According to police, the driver was directing a coworker to back the truck up, but didn’t step out of
A man was fatally shot in his 14th-floor apartment in a Brooklyn housing development Tuesday, cops said.
Police found Angel Medina, 62, just after 2:50 p.m. in the Langston Hughes Houses on Sutter Ave. in Brownsville.
“He’s dead inside the apartment. He was shot in the stomach,” a police source said. its way, and got pinned between his own truck and another.
“He was a nice guy, always joking,“said Eduardo Hernandez, 54, a pizzamaker and Morales’ former landlord. “He was a hardworking guy.“
Morales (inset) had a wife and daughter in Guerrero, Mexico, and a grown son in New York, Hernandez said outside Morales’ former Corona home.
The victim’s wife was at home and made a desperate call to 911, sources said. Medina knew the shooter — a 19-year-old man who lives on the same floor, cops said.
He fled the apartment with a mask on, and police scoured the building in an attempt to find him.
Police made no immediate arrests.