Two Execution-Style Shooting Victims Discovered in a Queens Parking Lot

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A warehouse worker in Queens made a grisly discovery yesterday morning: the trussed corpses of two young men, shot execution-style and dumped in the corner of a warehouse parking lot.


The men, described as possibly Asian or Hispanic in their late teens or 20s, were each shot multiple times in the head and upper torso with hands bound behind their backs with duct tape, according to a spokesman for Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.


The two bodies were found in an overgrown, weedy patch of a graveled parking lot, next to a pile of pallets, a graffiti-covered brick wall, and a sign that reads “No Dumping.”


The men were killed elsewhere, possibly in Brooklyn, and dumped in the middle of the night next to the Brooklyn Steel Warehouse Company, the spokesman said.


The unidentified bodies were discovered behind 1819 Flushing Ave. at 9:05 a.m., police said.


The medical examiner removed the corpses at about 2 p.m., shortly before a torrential downpour flooded sections of the city. There have been no arrests, and homicide detectives are investigating.


Workers in the industrial neighborhood of sprawling brick buildings and barren lots hemmed in by razor wire fences said there are few residents living in the area, which is thriving by day and desolate after sundown.


Judy Owens, 38, an office manager for American Conveyor Corporation, said she has worked in the neighborhood for 16 years and never worried about her safety during the day. But after nightfall, the traffic disappears and the empty streets and warehouses seem sinister and frightening.


“During the day it feels safe,” Ms. Owens said. “But after dark it certainly is desolate down here. I certainly wouldn’t want to be here after dark.”


Meanwhile, in the Bronx, three people were killed in two separate incidents.


In a double fatality that police described as a domestic murder-suicide, the mother of two children had her throat slit by her live-in boyfriend in their sixth-floor Morris Heights apartment at 1591 Townsend Ave.


The suspected killer, a Guyanese man believed to be in his 40s, attempted to hang himself from the fire escape behind their building.


Police responded to the incident at 6:49 a.m. and found the boyfriend unconscious with a broken neck, either from his attempt at hanging himself or from plunging from the fire escape to the ground, where he was found behind an auto glass shop. The man and the woman were pronounced dead at the scene.


The victim was identified by family members as Angelita Bangali, aged 30 or 32, with children aged 8 and 12.


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