Trini in trouble

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http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/...135902223.html
Trini 'confesses' to elevator arson
Story Created: Dec 19, 2011 at 11:46 PM ECT
Story Updated: Dec 19, 2011 at 11:46 PM ECT
A TRINIDAD and Tobago national, living in New York has been accused of the gruesome murder of a 73-year-old woman who was burnt alive in an elevator.
Jerome Isaac, 47, a T&T native, The New York Times reported, faces charges of first-degree and second-degree murder and arson.
He's alleged to have committed the heinous crime against Deloris Gillespie while in the elevator of her Brooklyn apartment over the weekend.
He reportedly confessed to the crime, which was recorded on surveillance cameras, shortly after he was taken into custody by police.
According to the Times, Gillespie, with her shopping bags in hand, pushed open the elevator door and there stood Isaac, a man she knew.
He set upon her immediately, the authorities said, armed with a tank of fuel and a barbecue lighter, wearing white gloves and a surgical mask.
He was angry, he would tell the police on Sunday, because he believed she owed him about $2,000 for odd jobs.
But there was no way Gillespie, could have been prepared for what happened nor could she have escaped.
Isaac, police said, methodically set the woman on fire, burning her alive in the elevator of her building in Brooklyn on Saturday, only a few feet from her apartment door, the police said.
He sprayed the flammable liquid in the woman's face and over her cowering body, and then lighted a Molotov cocktail to ignite the fire.
Within minutes, Gillespie was burning to death in the narrow cab, and her assailant had fled down the stairs.
The attack lasted only a few minutes, all of it captured by surveillance cameras; the sheer, calculated brutality stunned even the most hardened of homicide detectives, the Times reported.
The following day, Isaac, "reeking of gasoline," turned himself in at a transit police station, and by the afternoon, the police said, he had confessed to the attack.
Gillespie and Isaac lived less than two blocks apart in the Prospect Heights neighbourhood. She had a reputation for trying to help people who were down on their luck.
She gave food and shelter to the homeless and welcomed strangers into her apartment, sometimes hiring them for small tasks and chores, according to friends and relatives. That was how she came to know Isaac, they said.
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I have been following this incident only to find out it was a Trini
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/articl...#photo-1947338

[BW]

a brooklyn trini too

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Gillespie and Isaac lived less than two blocks apart in the Prospect Heights neighbourhood. She had a reputation for trying to help people who were down on their luck.

She gave food and shelter to the homeless and welcomed strangers into her apartment, sometimes hiring them for small tasks and chores, according to friends and relatives. That was how she came to know Isaac, they said.

[letric]

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/...135902223.html
Trini 'confesses' to elevator arson
Story Created: Dec 19, 2011 at 11:46 PM ECT
Story Updated: Dec 19, 2011 at 11:46 PM ECT
A TRINIDAD and Tobago national, living in New York has been accused of the gruesome murder of a 73-year-old woman who was burnt alive in an elevator.
Jerome Isaac, 47, a T&T native, The New York Times reported, faces charges of first-degree and second-degree murder and arson.
He's alleged to have committed the heinous crime against Deloris Gillespie while in the elevator of her Brooklyn apartment over the weekend.
He reportedly confessed to the crime, which was recorded on surveillance cameras, shortly after he was taken into custody by police.
According to the Times, Gillespie, with her shopping bags in hand, pushed open the elevator door and there stood Isaac, a man she knew.
He set upon her immediately, the authorities said, armed with a tank of fuel and a barbecue lighter, wearing white gloves and a surgical mask.
He was angry, he would tell the police on Sunday, because he believed she owed him about $2,000 for odd jobs.
But there was no way Gillespie, could have been prepared for what happened nor could she have escaped.
Isaac, police said, methodically set the woman on fire, burning her alive in the elevator of her building in Brooklyn on Saturday, only a few feet from her apartment door, the police said.
He sprayed the flammable liquid in the woman's face and over her cowering body, and then lighted a Molotov cocktail to ignite the fire.
Within minutes, Gillespie was burning to death in the narrow cab, and her assailant had fled down the stairs.
The attack lasted only a few minutes, all of it captured by surveillance cameras; the sheer, calculated brutality stunned even the most hardened of homicide detectives, the Times reported.
The following day, Isaac, "reeking of gasoline," turned himself in at a transit police station, and by the afternoon, the police said, he had confessed to the attack.
Gillespie and Isaac lived less than two blocks apart in the Prospect Heights neighbourhood. She had a reputation for trying to help people who were down on their luck.
She gave food and shelter to the homeless and welcomed strangers into her apartment, sometimes hiring them for small tasks and chores, according to friends and relatives. That was how she came to know Isaac, they said.
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I have been following this incident only to find out it was a Trini
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/articl...#photo-1947338

Sad ...