Double Execution on Staten Island: Was It a Mob Hit? Story Continues to Develop...
UPDATED JAN. 26 A person of interest in the double murders on Staten Island is being grilled by police, according to an NYPD spokesman, who declined to provide further details. The suspect, questioned at the 69th Precinct stationhouse, has not yet been charged, according to published reports. Community advocate Tony Herbert is offering a $2,500 reward. Photograph of where the double homicide was committed. The double murders committed this past Tuesday evening on Staten Island at Universal Merchant Funding's storefront initially was reported to have been the work of a "disgruntled ex-employee," according to the New York Post , which noted that the suspect was taken into custody on another charge, violating his supervised release from federal prison. Sources revealed that the shooter walked into the storefront on Buel Ave. near Zoe St., after closing hours and entered a rear office at that location where he killed both the owner and an employee who is kno...