Nolis Ogando, 17, Luis Tabales, 17, Alex Velez, 16, and Christopher Lozada, 17, (and soon Facebooker Calvin Pietri) have all been indicted on charges of gang assault in the first degree, manslaughter in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree in the gay bashing murder of straight 18-year-old Anthony Collao. Ogando is being held on $100,000 bail; Tabales on $200,000; Velez on $100,000 and Lozada on $150,000. In the indictment, the district attorney alleges that after crashing a party in Woodhaven, Queens, where Callao was with friends, “the four then chased Collao to a location on 90th Street, between 88th and 89th Avenue. The witness told the DA that Ogando was carrying a cane and Velez was holding what appeared to be a chrome bat. A second victim told the DA that the group of now five caught up with Collao, ‘threw him against a car and began to punch, kick and strike him with an object that appeared to be a stick.’ About 15 minutes after the beating, cops arrested the four suspects. Lozada was taken into custody wearing the victim’s Atlanta Braves baseball cap, with his clothes covered in blood. Officers recovered a metal pipe smeared with blood near the fatal scene. Collao was taken to Jamaica Hospital, where he was on life support. He died on Monday, March 14.”
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The Teens Accused Of Murdering Straight Teen Anthony Collao Were Carrying A Cane + Chrome Bat
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Mike in Asheville
I don’t understand why these thugs are not being charged with murder.
Shannon
WHAT A BUNCH OF SAVAGES!!!!!!!!! WHY IS IT ALWAYS THE PEOPLE YOU WOULD NEVER WANT…NASTY…SMELLY PRICKS ALWAYS TRYING TO KILL SOMEONE FOR BEING GAY???? SAVAGE ANIMALS!!! I BET THEY COULD NOT EVEN SPEAK ENGLISH EITHER!!
Carmen
They Did not killed just one young man, they killed an attire family. Think of his parents and what they going through, the pain and sorrow not seeing their son again. When you kill you kill everyone that that is close to the individual . This young man belonged to someone a mother and father.
I hope these killers one Day endure the same PAIN or WORSE that this young man family is going and will go through forever.
Angel
This was my girlfriends first cousin; same last name as well. What happenned to this poor young man and his family is unacceptable. These are thugs that have a criminal history of violence and other illegal conduct of the worse kind and have no respect for the law nor for human kind and should be locked up for life before they brutally murder another person……what is it gonna take????