Martin F. Abernathy
New Hampshire Murder And Providence Murder...
Fri Apr 29, 2005 19:42
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both suspects jumped out of windows! Both were 'mentally disturbed'. What's happening? [The FBI knows what's happening!]
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The Union Leader (Manchester NH)
April 22, 2005 Friday STATE EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A1
LENGTH: 842 words
HEADLINE: Police: Man killed mom
BYLINE: By PAT GROSSMITH Union Leader Staff and ADAM GROFF Union Leader Correspondent
BRENTWOOD -- A 21-year-old man is charged with stabbing his mother to death yesterday morning in their Robinson Street home.
Richard Stephen Staszewski, 45 Robinson St., was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the death of his mother, Nickoletta M. Staszewski, 47.
He is being detained in the Rockingham County jail and will be arraigned today at 11 a.m. in Exeter District Court, temporarily housed at the Rockingham County Superior Courthouse.
Staszewski was arrested yesterday at 10 a.m. at Exeter Hospital, where he was taken by police. He was treated there for injuries that were not life-threatening. He was transferred to the jail when the hospital released him.
Authorities did not say how he was injured.
But neighbors said Staszewski jumped through a second-floor window after he allegedly killed his mother.
According to the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office, Brentwood Police went to the home yesterday at 4:43 a.m. for a report of a young man out of control.
When police arrived, they found Mrs. Staszewski dead. An autopsy had yet to be scheduled as of yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Staszewski was a sixth-grade teacher at Nock Middle School in Newburyport, Mass.
Senior Assistant Attorney General N. William Delker said a family member called police but would not say who that was.
Karen Goerndt, 5 Greenleaf Circle, said it was Staszewski's younger sister, Callie, an eighth-grader at Cooperative Middle School in Stratham, who called police.
"I feel for the little girl," she said. "It's sad. It's sad."
Goerndt said it is shocking to have something as tragic as the murder take place in the neighborhood. She said she never thought something like this could happen in the rural neighborhood, especially since she had lived in Houston and Dallas.
The Staszewskis' three-story, beige and white-trimmed home with black shutters is in a two-year-old, upscale development known as the Meadows. Residences sell for $500,000 to $600,000, Goerndt said.
Paul Wilson of Juniper Lane, as well as Goerndt, said Staszewski jumped through a second-floor window onto the driveway.
Wilson said he had a butcher knife in his hand as officers approached him.
Goerndt said another neighbor looked out the window and called 911 to tell them to send more officers fast because it looked as though Staszewski was overpowering the officers.
Wilson said Staszewski was reportedly standing in his driveway screaming, "I am invincible! I am invincible!" when police arrived.
At some point, he crossed the street to a neighbor's mailbox, Goerndt said. Those neighbors were prevented from leaving their home, she said, because blood was on the mailbox and investigators were processing the crime scene.
The neighbor was told it will take two to three days to complete, Goerndt said.
Goerndt's daughter, Chelsea, a seventh-grader at the Cooperative school, said she saw Callie leaving the house yesterday morning in the company of a female state trooper.
Chelsea said students catch the school bus directly across the street from the Staszewskis' home.
She said she and other middle school students thought there had been a robbery when they saw police officers, a broken window and glass in the driveway, yellow tape blocking the road, and state and Brentwood police cruisers parked outside the home yesterday morning.
Also parked in front of the home was a Fremont police cruiser. State police investigators were seen photographing its interior.
Fremont Police Chief Neal Janvrin said one of his officers assisted Brentwood police in responding to what turned out to be a murder.
Chelsea said she saw Callie Staszewski, with her backpack, walking with a female trooper and heard the officer say, "Thank you, Callie. You have been a great help."
Then the eighth-grader got into a state police cruiser that drove off, Chelsea said.
"Think about when she gets up to testify," said Goerndt. "She's testifying on behalf of her mother, but it will be against her brother. She's in a terrible situation and then she has to relive it, if it goes to trial."
Goerndt said Richard Staszewski was in Texas on business when his wife was murdered.
Chelsea said there was no announcement in school about the murder and teachers did not talk to her about it.
School Administrative Unit 16, however, issued a statement saying the mother of a student "has met a tragic death."
The statement did not identify the school the child was attending but said the district's Crisis Intervention Team is working with students, staff and families who have been affected.
The school district also said extra adults were being put on school buses returning home in the affected neighborhoods "to help address student anxiety and to answer any questions the students may have."
New Hampshire State Police Major Crime Unit, in conjunction with the Brentwood Police Department, is continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the murder. Staff Reporter Kathryn Marchocki and the Associated Press contributed to this story.
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Suspect in Providence detective slaying may have mental problems
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) April 18,2005
The suspect in the slaying of a Providence police detective over the weekend was seeking help for mental problems, according to his family.
Esteban Carpio, was expected to be arraigned on one count of murder today for the alleged killing of Detective James Allen. The detective was shot with his own weapon while questioning Carpio over the weekend about a stabbing, according to police.
Carpio's relatives says the suspect had sought treatment for paranoid delusions.
His grandmother says he was, "pacing, talking, seeing things" leading up to the alleged murder.
Carpio alternatively lived with his mother in the Boston area or in Providence with his girlfriend.
The sister of Carpio's girlfriend says he had a three-year-old child with his girlfriend and had a job, though she did not know where.
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Suspect's family says he was having 'nervous breakdown'
09:10 AM EDT on Tuesday, April 19, 2005
BY CATHLEEN F. CROWLEY, Journal Staff Writer
Esteban Carpio was spiraling down toward a mental collapse in the weeks before he was accused in Sunday's deadly shooting of a police officer, according to his girlfriend.
Samein Phin said she and Carpio's family tried three times over the past three months to get him admitted into a hospital for mental treatment. All their attempts failed; Carpio refused help.
Less than 12 hours before Detective James L. Allen was shot and killed as he interviewed Carpio, Phin said she had called a Providence mental health agency seeking help for Carpio. She was told to bring him in on Monday, she said.
Phin met Carpio at a Providence nightclub five years ago. Phin said Carpio had been a barber, but was not working. Phin, who is 22, would not say what she did for a living. They lived together in Providence and have a 3-year-old daughter.
Court records show that Carpio, 26, was arrested three times on charges of assaulting Phin. The domestic assault charges were dismissed because Phin never appeared in court, according to the records.
ON SATURDAY evening, detectives arrived at the apartment that Phin and Carpio shared at 70 Nashua St. in Providence. Phin said she answered the door and stepped outside to speak with police. Carpio was inside.
When the police told her they wanted to talk to Carpio about the stabbing of an 84-year-old Providence woman, Phin said she began to cry.
Just a mile away, Madeline Gatta, 84, had been stabbed outside her home earlier that day in what police called an attempted purse-snatching. A neighbor who witnessed the assault called the police to report that the assailant drove away in a red Dodge Caravan. The witness gave the police the license plate number. Police traced the van to Carpio and Phin, who had rented it for a trip to Atlantic City a few days earlier.
Phin let the police search the van and impound it.
She said she warned the police about Carpio's fragile mental state. "I told them this guy is having a problem," she said.
Phin said she coaxed Carpio out of the house.
"I said, 'Come out of the house. These are detectives and they want to talk to you about something that happened,' " she said. "I said, 'Just relax baby, just relax. I'll be by your side.' "
Phin said the police handcuffed Carpio's hands behind his back and she put a coat over his shoulders. Officers drove him to the police station in a cruiser and Phin said she followed in a detective's cruiser about a half-hour later.
Detective Allen introduced himself and shook her hand, Phin said.
Again, Phin said she repeated her warnings.
"He's been having problems. He's been having a nervous breakdown," she said.
Phin said she sat at a detective's desk while investigators questioned Carpio down the hall.
Then she heard the gunshots. She called Carpio's mother on her cell phone and screamed for her to come to the station. A detective grabbed the phone away, she said.
The police say Carpio wrestled Detective Allen's gun away from him, shot the detective and fired the gun at a window. Carpio jumped out the window, surviving the 30-foot drop, and ran away as chaos enveloped the police station. The police arrested him a short time later after a chase and struggle on Washington Street.
The police would not comment yesterday about the conversations between Phin and the detectives.
CARPIO GREW UP in Roslindale, Mass., where his mother still lives. In early April, Carpio's mother had called 911 because her son was hearing voices and seeing things, Phin said.
"He thought someone was after him," she said. "He felt like something was grabbing his soul. He felt like someone was doing voodoo on him."
He was taken from his mother's house by ambulance to Faulkner Hospital in Boston, but he refused treatment, Phin said.
A few days later, Phin brought him to Rhode Island Hospital. She lied to get him to go with her. She said she needed to go to the hospital. Carpio "freaked out" once he realized the truth.
She said he was agitated and muttering into his hand, over and over: "I'm God. I'm the finest gold."
The emergency room doctors ran several tests, Phin said, and then he was taken by ambulance to the Providence Center, an outpatient community mental health center.
Carpio walked away from the center, but Phin found him and took him back. A counselor spoke with him for about an hour, she said, and gave him a follow-up appointment, but he never went.
Officials from both Rhode Island Hospital and the Providence Center said patient information is confidential and they would not confirm whether Carpio was treated at their facilities.
Phin said Carpio hasn't been the same since he was in a car accident about two years ago. The car Carpio was in was broadsided and he suffered head injuries. He was in a coma for a day, she said, and he has a scar over his eye and under his nose.
His mental state worsened in the past two months, she said. Phin, who is Cambodian, took him to the Khmer Buddist temple on Hanover Street and a monk blessed him, she said.
On Saturday morning, Phin said she called the Providence Center's hot line. Carpio hadn't slept in three or four days, she said. He was convinced someone was trying to break in and had turned on every light in the house. She said the center told her to bring him in on Monday.
"What can I do?" Phin said yesterday. "I tried to find him help. It's too late now."
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The Union Leader (Manchester NH)
April 22, 2005 Friday STATE EDITION
SECTION: NEWS; Pg. A1
LENGTH: 842 words
HEADLINE: Police: Man killed mom
BYLINE: By PAT GROSSMITH Union Leader Staff and ADAM GROFF Union Leader Correspondent
BRENTWOOD -- A 21-year-old man is charged with stabbing his mother to death yesterday morning in their Robinson Street home.
Richard Stephen Staszewski, 45 Robinson St., was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the death of his mother, Nickoletta M. Staszewski, 47.
He is being detained in the Rockingham County jail and will be arraigned today at 11 a.m. in Exeter District Court, temporarily housed at the Rockingham County Superior Courthouse.
Staszewski was arrested yesterday at 10 a.m. at Exeter Hospital, where he was taken by police. He was treated there for injuries that were not life-threatening. He was transferred to the jail when the hospital released him.
Authorities did not say how he was injured.
But neighbors said Staszewski jumped through a second-floor window after he allegedly killed his mother.
According to the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office, Brentwood Police went to the home yesterday at 4:43 a.m. for a report of a young man out of control.
When police arrived, they found Mrs. Staszewski dead. An autopsy had yet to be scheduled as of yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Staszewski was a sixth-grade teacher at Nock Middle School in Newburyport, Mass.
Senior Assistant Attorney General N. William Delker said a family member called police but would not say who that was.
Karen Goerndt, 5 Greenleaf Circle, said it was Staszewski's younger sister, Callie, an eighth-grader at Cooperative Middle School in Stratham, who called police.
"I feel for the little girl," she said. "It's sad. It's sad."
Goerndt said it is shocking to have something as tragic as the murder take place in the neighborhood. She said she never thought something like this could happen in the rural neighborhood, especially since she had lived in Houston and Dallas.
The Staszewskis' three-story, beige and white-trimmed home with black shutters is in a two-year-old, upscale development known as the Meadows. Residences sell for $500,000 to $600,000, Goerndt said.
Paul Wilson of Juniper Lane, as well as Goerndt, said Staszewski jumped through a second-floor window onto the driveway.
Wilson said he had a butcher knife in his hand as officers approached him.
Goerndt said another neighbor looked out the window and called 911 to tell them to send more officers fast because it looked as though Staszewski was overpowering the officers.
Wilson said Staszewski was reportedly standing in his driveway screaming, "I am invincible! I am invincible!" when police arrived.
At some point, he crossed the street to a neighbor's mailbox, Goerndt said. Those neighbors were prevented from leaving their home, she said, because blood was on the mailbox and investigators were processing the crime scene.
The neighbor was told it will take two to three days to complete, Goerndt said.
Goerndt's daughter, Chelsea, a seventh-grader at the Cooperative school, said she saw Callie leaving the house yesterday morning in the company of a female state trooper.
Chelsea said students catch the school bus directly across the street from the Staszewskis' home.
She said she and other middle school students thought there had been a robbery when they saw police officers, a broken window and glass in the driveway, yellow tape blocking the road, and state and Brentwood police cruisers parked outside the home yesterday morning.
Also parked in front of the home was a Fremont police cruiser. State police investigators were seen photographing its interior.
Fremont Police Chief Neal Janvrin said one of his officers assisted Brentwood police in responding to what turned out to be a murder.
Chelsea said she saw Callie Staszewski, with her backpack, walking with a female trooper and heard the officer say, "Thank you, Callie. You have been a great help."
Then the eighth-grader got into a state police cruiser that drove off, Chelsea said.
"Think about when she gets up to testify," said Goerndt. "She's testifying on behalf of her mother, but it will be against her brother. She's in a terrible situation and then she has to relive it, if it goes to trial."
Goerndt said Richard Staszewski was in Texas on business when his wife was murdered.
Chelsea said there was no announcement in school about the murder and teachers did not talk to her about it.
School Administrative Unit 16, however, issued a statement saying the mother of a student "has met a tragic death."
The statement did not identify the school the child was attending but said the district's Crisis Intervention Team is working with students, staff and families who have been affected.
The school district also said extra adults were being put on school buses returning home in the affected neighborhoods "to help address student anxiety and to answer any questions the students may have."
New Hampshire State Police Major Crime Unit, in conjunction with the Brentwood Police Department, is continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding the murder. Staff Reporter Kathryn Marchocki and the Associated Press contributed to this story.
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Suspect in Providence detective slaying may have mental problems
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) April 18,2005
The suspect in the slaying of a Providence police detective over the weekend was seeking help for mental problems, according to his family.
Esteban Carpio, was expected to be arraigned on one count of murder today for the alleged killing of Detective James Allen. The detective was shot with his own weapon while questioning Carpio over the weekend about a stabbing, according to police.
Carpio's relatives says the suspect had sought treatment for paranoid delusions.
His grandmother says he was, "pacing, talking, seeing things" leading up to the alleged murder.
Carpio alternatively lived with his mother in the Boston area or in Providence with his girlfriend.
The sister of Carpio's girlfriend says he had a three-year-old child with his girlfriend and had a job, though she did not know where.
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http://www.projo.com/news/content/projo_20050419_carpio19.2316487.html
Suspect's family says he was having 'nervous breakdown'
09:10 AM EDT on Tuesday, April 19, 2005
BY CATHLEEN F. CROWLEY, Journal Staff Writer
Esteban Carpio was spiraling down toward a mental collapse in the weeks before he was accused in Sunday's deadly shooting of a police officer, according to his girlfriend.
Samein Phin said she and Carpio's family tried three times over the past three months to get him admitted into a hospital for mental treatment. All their attempts failed; Carpio refused help.
Less than 12 hours before Detective James L. Allen was shot and killed as he interviewed Carpio, Phin said she had called a Providence mental health agency seeking help for Carpio. She was told to bring him in on Monday, she said.
Phin met Carpio at a Providence nightclub five years ago. Phin said Carpio had been a barber, but was not working. Phin, who is 22, would not say what she did for a living. They lived together in Providence and have a 3-year-old daughter.
Court records show that Carpio, 26, was arrested three times on charges of assaulting Phin. The domestic assault charges were dismissed because Phin never appeared in court, according to the records.
ON SATURDAY evening, detectives arrived at the apartment that Phin and Carpio shared at 70 Nashua St. in Providence. Phin said she answered the door and stepped outside to speak with police. Carpio was inside.
When the police told her they wanted to talk to Carpio about the stabbing of an 84-year-old Providence woman, Phin said she began to cry.
Just a mile away, Madeline Gatta, 84, had been stabbed outside her home earlier that day in what police called an attempted purse-snatching. A neighbor who witnessed the assault called the police to report that the assailant drove away in a red Dodge Caravan. The witness gave the police the license plate number. Police traced the van to Carpio and Phin, who had rented it for a trip to Atlantic City a few days earlier.
Phin let the police search the van and impound it.
She said she warned the police about Carpio's fragile mental state. "I told them this guy is having a problem," she said.
Phin said she coaxed Carpio out of the house.
"I said, 'Come out of the house. These are detectives and they want to talk to you about something that happened,' " she said. "I said, 'Just relax baby, just relax. I'll be by your side.' "
Phin said the police handcuffed Carpio's hands behind his back and she put a coat over his shoulders. Officers drove him to the police station in a cruiser and Phin said she followed in a detective's cruiser about a half-hour later.
Detective Allen introduced himself and shook her hand, Phin said.
Again, Phin said she repeated her warnings.
"He's been having problems. He's been having a nervous breakdown," she said.
Phin said she sat at a detective's desk while investigators questioned Carpio down the hall.
Then she heard the gunshots. She called Carpio's mother on her cell phone and screamed for her to come to the station. A detective grabbed the phone away, she said.
The police say Carpio wrestled Detective Allen's gun away from him, shot the detective and fired the gun at a window. Carpio jumped out the window, surviving the 30-foot drop, and ran away as chaos enveloped the police station. The police arrested him a short time later after a chase and struggle on Washington Street.
The police would not comment yesterday about the conversations between Phin and the detectives.
CARPIO GREW UP in Roslindale, Mass., where his mother still lives. In early April, Carpio's mother had called 911 because her son was hearing voices and seeing things, Phin said.
"He thought someone was after him," she said. "He felt like something was grabbing his soul. He felt like someone was doing voodoo on him."
He was taken from his mother's house by ambulance to Faulkner Hospital in Boston, but he refused treatment, Phin said.
A few days later, Phin brought him to Rhode Island Hospital. She lied to get him to go with her. She said she needed to go to the hospital. Carpio "freaked out" once he realized the truth.
She said he was agitated and muttering into his hand, over and over: "I'm God. I'm the finest gold."
The emergency room doctors ran several tests, Phin said, and then he was taken by ambulance to the Providence Center, an outpatient community mental health center.
Carpio walked away from the center, but Phin found him and took him back. A counselor spoke with him for about an hour, she said, and gave him a follow-up appointment, but he never went.
Officials from both Rhode Island Hospital and the Providence Center said patient information is confidential and they would not confirm whether Carpio was treated at their facilities.
Phin said Carpio hasn't been the same since he was in a car accident about two years ago. The car Carpio was in was broadsided and he suffered head injuries. He was in a coma for a day, she said, and he has a scar over his eye and under his nose.
His mental state worsened in the past two months, she said. Phin, who is Cambodian, took him to the Khmer Buddist temple on Hanover Street and a monk blessed him, she said.
On Saturday morning, Phin said she called the Providence Center's hot line. Carpio hadn't slept in three or four days, she said. He was convinced someone was trying to break in and had turned on every light in the house. She said the center told her to bring him in on Monday.
"What can I do?" Phin said yesterday. "I tried to find him help. It's too late now."
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