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N.Y. Cathedral Shooter Was Immigrant Criminal With Violent Record

Posted on | December 15, 2020 | 1 Comment

A Christmas choir concert Sunday afternoon at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on the Upper West Side of Manhattan ended with a lunatic brandishing pistols and screaming “shoot me” at police. Attempts by police to “de-escalate” were futile, and the gunman was shot dead. It turn out that the gunman, 52-year-old Luis Vasquez, was an immigrant from the Dominican Republic whose visa had expired:

The gunman shot dead by cops after opening fire on the steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Sunday had a long rap sheet that included an attempted murder bust, according to records and sources.
And it wasn’t the first time he shot at cops, sources said.
Luis Vasquez, 52, was arrested on the Upper West Side for attempted murder in 1990, and on an assault charge there a year earlier, sources said Monday.
In the first case, Vasquez was accused of firing a gun at police and an unidentified woman on Aug. 21, 1990, according to sources.
State prison records show he was sentenced to three-to-nine years after pleading guilty to a lesser felony weapons possession charge.
He was released but rearrested on a drug charge in 2007 and turned over to immigration authorities in November of that year.
Vasquez is a native of the Dominican Republic. His travel visa from the country expired on Sunday, sources said.

A violent criminal who was “turned over to immigration authorities” during the Obama administration was still on the streets of New York — where he was, no doubt, registered to vote as a Democrat.

This kind of stuff is no longer surprising. It is now routine.




 

Category: Crime, Immigration, New York

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One Response to “N.Y. Cathedral Shooter Was Immigrant Criminal With Violent Record”

  1. 16 December 2020 – Dark Brightness
    December 15th, 2020 @ 2:17 pm

    […] A Christmas choir concert Sunday afternoon at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on the Upper West Side of Manhattan ended with a lunatic brandishing pistols and screaming “shoothat sha me” at police. Attempts by police to “de-escalate” were futile, and the gunman was shot dead. It turn out that the gunman, 52-year-old Luis Vasquez, was an immigrant from the Dominican Republic whose visa had expired […]