Queens Custodian Jerry Antoniello killed while protecting Papa

Gerardo “Jerry” Antoniello, 29, was shot in the head, and his father, Bartolomeo “Romeo” Antoniello (61), was beaten with pistols on September 9, 2009 in a brutal home vasion in Ozone Park.

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Jerry later died in the hospital when members of the New York police authority collected evidence in the bloody aftermath of the attack.

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It was also personally for New York's best. Carmine Antoniello, the brother of Jerry, was a policeman with the 106th district in Queens at that time.

“The NYPD feels like a big family,” said Denis Broderick, a detective with the NYPD Queens Mord squad. “If something happens to you, you feel it.”

Who were Gerardo “Jerry” Antoniello and Bartolomeo “Romeo” Antoniello?

Jerry was a maintenance manager in a school in which he was popular with employees. “He loved life,” said his brother Carmine. “He wanted to find a serious friend and found a family.”

Romeo met his wife Gaetana in Italy in 1970. They came to New York, where he found his own piece in the American dream. He had a home, three sons and a pizza restaurant called Romeo, which he would run in Queens for decades.

Romeo had just come home from pizzeria when two young men attacked him in masks and demanded money. “My father wore $ 300, goes out of the pizzeria and he threw the money on people,” said Carmine. “You didn't even bother to take it.”

The perpetrators defeated Romeo with weapons. Jerry tried to intervene and protect his father. It was attacked so brutally that his teeth were switched off and he collapsed on the floor. Then the shooter fired the shot that later killed Jerry.

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The police are looking for a motive for brutal murder

“Ms. Antoniello remembered that one of the people said:” This is what they get “and Jerry shot into the back of the head,” said Broderick. The investigators had a lot to consider whether the murder could be bound by the fact that his brother Carmine was a police officer as a repayment for a former police bust.

Detective tested this theory by examining the cases of carmine and interviewing people who were connected to them. “It didn't seem that this had something to do with Carmine's job,” said Broderick.

The investigators were the fact that the pizzeria was a base business. “During his interview, Romeo explained that he felt that he was being persecuted,” said David Moser, a detective with the Queens Mord squad from the NYPD.

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Could the killing have been an insider job? With the help of Romeo's son Angelo Antoniello, Detectives put together a list of pizzeria employees and interviewed them.

According to the investigators, this line of investigation proved to be a dead end. “The employees love to work there,” said Broderick. “You love the guy.”

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The police discover a pattern of push-in theft in Queens

Detective learned that four robberies had taken place in Ozone Park in eight months before the Antoniello murder. “They were young black men who pressed older white men's houses,” said Welz.

The victims included a garbage man, a seller and a landscape designer. The investigators found that there was another direct draw with the Antoniello case. One of the other push-in victim was Romeo's cousin.

“My father didn't know that his cousin had been attacked before my brother Jerry was killed,” said Carmine. “We found out of the detective.”

Detective had a crime scene unit that had the cousin house again, where a hair was collected by a staircase. The evidence was found by Codis, a criminal database, and a agreement.

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Suspect and a mob connection arise

The person was introduced to the survey and agreed to become an informant. “He then closed a plea agreement with the public prosecutor and was able to provide us with further information,” said Moser.

The witness admitted that he was part of a robber. He told the investigators that he was hired to make the home hike in the landscape and that he knew who was behind Jerry's murder.

The source identified two people on their street names. The police decided them as Jason Burrell, a criminal on probation, and Rashod Cowan. Romeo's cousin identified Burrell in a photo -Carry as one of the robbers in his residence.

Burrell was charged with the home vasion. Cowan was also arrested. Burrell told the police that a man he only knew as a “boss”, hired him and provided him with a house invasion kit – a bag with masks and adhesive tape.

When the boss had enclosed weapons for the Antoniello robbery, Burrell wanted to get out of his job. He commissioned the robbery to two other men he knew through their streets.

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The focus of a social club is in focus

The investigators urged to identify the boss. “Burrell tells the investigators that the boss was part of a card game and this card game in a social club with people with mob bonds takes place” New York murder.

Burrell claimed that the boss went to these card games to find out who had money. So Romeo and his cousin were aligned against cash.

Detectives found that the boss Francis Lacorte, 29, was an employee of the Gambino Crime. With this knowledge, the investigators have methodically established their case before they were arrested.

“There are surveillance videos from Burrell and Lacorte in and around the time of murder,” said Welz. The film material showed a bag – presumably the predatory kit with weapons.

Further arrests in Antoniello case

Burrell, Cowan and Lacorte were summarized of push-in robbery in stressful telephone records. “It was obvious what you wrote an SMS,” said Broderick. But there was no news between Lacorte and the shooters.

On May 17, 2011, Burrell and Cowan guilty in the Antoniello case to say against Lacorte.

Lacorte was arrested and charged with 22 cases, including Jerry's murder. On March 29, 2012, Lacorte was not guilty of all charges. In his trial, he was found guilty for 13 charges, including murder. Lacorte was sentenced to life for 50 years.

Through stubborn detective work, the investigators found that the identities of the shooters Leon Whitfield and Antoine Burroughs were.

In their arrests, both suspects are guilty of robbery. “Whitfield has given very, very scarce descriptions about what happened with very little detail,” said former deputy US lawyer Rachel Maimin.

Burroughs admitted to shot Jerry, but claimed that it was an accident. “But they do not bring a loaded weapon into an armed house invasion without realizing that someone can be murdered,” said Maimin.

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On December 16, 2015, Whitfield and Burroughs were sentenced to almost 34 years in prison. At that time, Romeo died of cancer.

“Cancer was diagnosed with my father before Jerry was killed,” said Carmine. “His oncologist had said that he had made a turn better, but after seeing how my brother was killed in front of him, he lost his will to survive.”

To learn more about the case, you can see the episode “Blood Runs Blue”. New York Moricide. New episodes of the show Air on Saturdays at 9/8C PM on February 9th. oxygen.