Marcus Bellamy, the 35-year-old former Broadway dancer who strangled his boyfriend during a crystal meth binge, gets to spend the next 20 years in prison.
Bellamy, whose Broadway credits included Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark, received the sentence amid an emotional courtroom. In August 2016, Bellamy murdered Bernardo Almonte, 27, by beating and strangulation. Just prior to sentencing, Almonte’s mother, Norka Vargas, addressed the court, expressed her hurt and rage.
“No human being deserves to die the way you killed my son,” Vargas lamented. “It was inhuman. For no reason. He was taken away and I still don’t know why. This is a question only you can answer for me: Why did you kill my son?”
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Bellamy also addressed the court, trying to explain his actions. “I want to apologize to the family,” Bellamy said. “Bernardo was very special and he didn’t deserve what happened to him. You asked me why. Your son and I used to smoke a lot of crystal meth together. On this day, I thought your son was the devil. I didn’t want to do what I did. I want to make that clear. I loved Bernardo. He took me out of my depression. I didn’t mean to destroy somebody.”
According to police, the day of the incident neighbors alerted law enforcement after hearing a struggle in Bellamy & Almonte’s shared apartment. Upon arrival, officers discovered Almonte unconscious and lying face down on the floor. Not long after, Bellamy knocked on a neighbor’s door and confessed to the murder. He also posted a series of disturbing Facebook messages alluding to Lucifer, the rapture and “I did it for love”:
In court, Bellamy pleaded guilty to the murder.
bishonen91
quite confused at the choice of pictures you guys use. its like you’re glorifying the fact that he was attractive and mocking the fact that he strangled his boyfriend. its actually gross
QueerTruth
Thank you. I agree. It’s beyond offensive.
@HarryB at q-meet.us
Really agree with you
QueerTruth
I challenge queerty to stop posting the pictures of criminals without their clothes on. It’s obscene and we can do better than that. We are simply queer, not sex maniacs.
I challenge queerty to instead publish the victims (with their clothes on).
Brian
It’s Queerty showing their true colors. They pretend to be evolved beyond belief, but they are really just your standard trash gossip rag with no ethics. They just want clicks and think so little of gay men that they’ll use thirst pics to get us to read a story about a murder.
Smith David
Queerty, why..why.. would you glorify this murderer. I am so triggered by this story. I am hurt and almost in tears. Why did you run this horrible story.
QueerTruth
Me too. All of the comments so far are disgusted.
proudwhitegay
A black gay man murdering…why am I not surprised?
bishonen91
most gay murderers and criminals that have been reported on this website and in general have been about white men. take your racism and ignorance elsewhere.
QueerTruth
Wow. It’s sad to see troll racism.
You must have a very small penis to live in such fear of black people.
Kangol
Absolutely disgustingly racist post. You are the worst of the worst.
proudwhitegay
Truth hurts #saveourwhitegays
dwes09
A gay white supremacist…why am I not surprised. You are just worried that it will get harder for you to find meth to smoke.
There’s no excuse for stupid!
Doug
Reading the Facebook messages Bellamy wrote, he’s obviously psychotic. Meth does really strange things to the human brain.
Vince
So does religion. A good example of when you combine the two.
iamru2
20 years? He got off easy. Where is that moron DCGUY to tell me I am a Trumptard for thinking this thought?
CobraPowers
Really disgusting. Meth and substance abuse are a stain in the community (and unfortunately disproportionally used vs general population), and yet when some LGBT people speak against the substance abuse within the gay community we get called “self-loathing”. Is it too much to think we could respect and love ourselves more than to seek to self-destruct?
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Meth is beyond destructive. The grip it has on a user is iron fisted. I used to hang out with a “straight guy” who was until he began partying. What was once incredibly amazing sex slowly turning into a paranoid nightmare. The last straw was my coming out of the bathroom and seeing him with a knife in each hand demanding I checked behind the couch because “someone was there”….
Vince
Yeah meth addiction is no joke. It’s practically impossible to get out of its grip. I had a tweaker friend that was convinced that there were people in the walls. No amount of telling him different would make any difference.
Kangol
I think they both may miss your sarcasm.
Kangol
A horrible story all around. A young man is gone, another young man’s life is down the drain. In the case of the latter, mental illness + meth produced a murderer. Perhaps instead of featuring the scene from the movie or the shirtless pic, Queerty, you might show the felon’s mugshot and/or the victim’s photo.
GetOffMyInternet
I wouldn’t wish him to actually die, but if he did exist and got hit by a bus, I sure as hell wouldn’t shed a tear. He hates drug users, porn stars, and people on PrEP. His responses are so made up of a mock outrage, it’s not even funny. He’s contradicted himself so visibly, several times on this page in his responses. Then again, he wouldn’t know mental illness, probably because he is psychotic and has no life but to purposefully troll a website. No one can be as big of an ass*ole as he is without it being a character of creation, or someone seriously needing Thorazine. Hes trying to call out someone for insulting people with “real” mental illness, forgetting that many with mental illness use drugs BECAUSE of their mental health issues. Also mental illness comes from drug use as well, a psychosis can develop. And sometimes when they sober up, it goes away. No matter what, he thinks gay men are whores and addicts. He’s a miserable twat who comes her with lack of anything to do. Someone like him/his persona shouldn’t be one to damn everyone, because lack of empathy is a trait for the greater picture of a severe anti-social disorder.
Hillers
I used to snort meth in the early to mid-2000s, and I know it’s done irreparable damage to my liver. It really is the devil’s drug. It lures you into a false sense of security, and before you know it, you need it just to stay awake, forget feeling high.
Meth: not even once.
Vince
As crazy as it sounds I tell people if you absolutely have to sow your oats with drugs don’t go beyond Coke. Once your brain gets a taste of drugs like meth or heroin it never forgets and for many there is no going back.
Also don’t forget the damage to the brain. We’ve all seen it. Those MRIs and brains looking like Swiss cheese.
I did it in the late 90s and 2000s. Young and dumb. The only excuse I’ll give myself was you didn’t have the education they have today about it.
GetOffMyInternet
Yeah and notice how he told someone to see a therapist just above? He doesn’t exist. He’s a made up troll looking to stir it up. I wish Queerty would just ban him.
inbama
He has lots of photos on his FB page, but none sporting a basket.