Detailed update on family massacre in RI:42 y.o.Daddy steals .357 Magnum gun & massacres his 3 child-slaves,aged 6,9,& 12,after dispute w/Mommy over homework
Joe1orbit
Yesterday I posted a most intriguing news item on a family massacre in Rhode
Island, that involved a man taking 5 family members hostage and killing THREE
of them, before he killed himself. Details were still very sketchy as of the
time of my post yesterday, and I invited you folks to post updates. Since none
of you did, the job rests with me this morning, to provide a properly detailed
update.
The new info that has come out is making this massacre all the more
fascinating. It turns out that our rampaging gunman, 42 year old Maurice Young
Sr., shot his three BIOLOGICAL child-slaves, aged 6, 9, and 12, to death. Yup,
a triple child-slave slaughter.
This rampage was apparently sparked by Maurice's girlfriend, the mother of
all three child-slaves, breaking up with him four or so days earlier. Maurice
was clearly enraged by the break-up, he went to the home of his cousin,
ATTACKED the cousin with a HAMMER but did not kill him, and STOLE the man's
.357 Magnum handgun. This initial attack was clearly committed ONLY because
Maurice WANTED to massacre his family, decided that he needed a GUN to do so,
and knew that his cousin owned a gun, while he himself did not.
After stealing the gun, Maurice drove to a house where his two daughters,
aged 9 and 12, were playing with friends of theirs. The two daughters were
planning to sleep over at this friend's house, but Maurice told them there was
a "change in plans", and took them into his car. The three of them drove home,
where Daddy maurice's 6 year old slave was already located. Clearly Daddy
Maurice was carefully GATHERING his family together for his PLANNED massacre.
The Mommy was NOT at home when Maurice arrived with the 2 daughter-slaves. He
waited for her to return, and when she did, he pulled out his gun. The 31 year
old gal-pal who had just broken up with Maurice KNOCKED the gun out of his
hand, and FLED the house, running to call the police. But her sister and a
friend, both adults who had accompanied gal-pal Waleska to the house, were not
able to flee. Maurice grabbed them both as hostages and tied them up, as Mommy
Waleska ran to call cops. But she left her 3 child-slaves inside the house,
and even though she knocked the gun away, she did not TAKE it AWAY from
Maurice. And so Maurice let her escape, grabbed the gun, and after tying up his
2 "undesired" murder targets, systematically executed all three of their
child-slaves, in the minutes that followed. By the time police arrived, the
massacre was complete, with Maurice having successfully killed all three
child-slaves, and then committed suicide. He chose to spare the lives of his 2
tied-up adult hostages, even though he ABSOLUTELY could have killed them just
as easily, if not MORE easily, than he killed the 3 children.
Family massacres of child-slaves, like this one occur, thanks to your
diseased society's overt teaching and message to all adults that children are
nothing more than owned slaves, whose sole purpose for being alive is to amuse,
entertain, divert, and serve as OBJECTS for the USE of their legal owners, to
allow the owner to cathartically relieve their own rage, hate, and life
frustrations, and to be used as a TOOL of VENGEANCE against fellow adults.
Anyway, a pretty impressive rampage here, and certainly one of the more
prolific murder rampages of recent years, to come out of the small state of RI.
Maurice COULD have so easily claimed FIVE victims, even SIX, if he had chosen
to kill his cousin in the initial gun theft attack. But he was satisfied with
only targeting his 3 sperm-created child-slaves for death. So be it. I wonder
whether he was ALSO planning to kill his gal-pal, the one who managed to knock
the gun away and flee from the house?? Come to think of it, her offensive
action may have been the final trigger point that caused him to decide to kill
all the children. MAYBE he was ONLY planning to kill her, although that
possibility is unlikely based upon the manner in which he GATHERED all 3
child-slaves together at the house.
The second news article below states that Daddy's Maurice's homicidal rage
was sparked by a dispute with the Mommy over the kids doing HOMEWORK, so it's
not clear whether that was a major issue, or if the AP article touting the
break-up of their relationship, is what sparked the massacre. After reading
SEVERAL different articles, it is beginning to look like a dispute over
homework, rather than a genuine break-up, is what sparked this massacre. After
the homework dispute last Tuesday, Daddy Maurice STAYED AWAY from the home for
FOUR straight days and nights, before returning to commit his massacre. Whether
he was THROWN OUT of the house by Mommy Waleska, is not clear.
You can view a photo of the ENTIRE Young family, Daddy Maurice, the Mommy,
and all 3 child-slaves, posing in a family portrait type of photo, by pointimg
your web browser to:
http://projo.com/report/news/special/murders/main.htm
You can also view SEVERAl other photos from the murder scene at the above
URL. Just click on the photos to enlarge them.
Take care, JOE
The following appears courtesy of yesterday's Associated Press news wire:
Dad Kills His Three Kids, Himself
By SCOTT ANDREWS
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- After stealing a gun and tying up two adults, a father
shot his three children to death as their mother ran to call police,
authorities said Sunday.
The father then committed suicide about midnight Saturday.
``They were just three innocent kids,'' Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. and police
said Sunday at a press conference. ``The very nature of this violent act makes
it incomprehensible.''
The children's mother had broken up with the gunman, 42-year-old Maurice Young
Sr., earlier in the day, Cianci said.
After the breakup, police said Young went to his cousin's home, attacked him
with a hammer and stole his .357-caliber revolver.
Young then picked up his daughters, 9-year-old Jessica and 12-year-old Jasmin,
up from a friend's house in East Providence, where they had planned to spend
the night. He drove them home, where his 6-year-old son, Maurice Jr., was
sleeping, Cianci said.
Young's girlfriend, 31-year-old Waleska Cruz, had stepped out briefly with her
sister and a friend to buy soda.
When they returned, Young confronted them with the gun. Cruz knocked it away
and ran from the house to call the police. After tying up the sister and her
friend, authorities say Young killed the children then himself.
AP-NY-03-21-99
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The following appears courtesy of the 3/22/99 online edition of The Boston
Globe newspaper:
Father kills 3 children, himself
3 adults, child escape injury in R.I. apartment
By Hermione Malone, Globe Correspondent, Globe Staff, 03/22/99
PROVIDENCE - Just before she was shot and killed, police said, Maurice Young's
12-year-old daughter, Jasmin, begged for her life when Young pointed a gun at
her in her bedroom Saturday night.
Then, as police surrounded the apartment building where Young lived with his
common-law wife, Waleska Cruz, he shot and killed his two other children,
Jessica, 9, and Maurice Jr., 6, at point-blank range with a .357 revolver,
before killing himself, police said.
The triple slaying stemmed from a dispute that Young and Cruz had last week
concerning the children's homework, officials said. Cruz managed to escape from
the apartment at 35 Hammond St. after knocking the gun from Young's hand,
police said.
The violence rocked the neighborhood of brightly colored, three-story Victorian
homes where residents heard the drama being played out. Young, said neighbors,
had been a good father with no history of problems with his family or police.
''It seemed like it went on for weeks,'' said state Representative Anastasia
Williams, who lived across the street from Young, of the incident Saturday
night, although police say Young was in the apartment for only minutes before
the shootings. ''One of the kids said `No daddy! No daddy!' and then you heard
two shots.''
The ordeal also involved Cruz's sister, Veneza Vallejo; Vallejo's boyfriend,
Edwin Lauriano; and their 10-year-old son, who had arrived that day from New
York.
Vallejo and Lauriano were tied up but managed to escape from the apartment
while their son hid. He, too, was uninjured. Williams said she had heard a man
on the corner screaming, `Get my son out! Get my son out!''
Williams planned a vigil for the victims last night.
At a news conference yesterday, a shaken mayor, Vincent A. Cianci Jr., said,
''Can anybody fathom that, killing your own kids? This is the mark of a
deranged, strange, crazy man.''
He said Cruz is being treated at Rhode Island Hospital for stress and trauma.
''My guess is, if she didn't knock the gun out of his hand and flee, she'd be
dead, too,'' Cianci added.
Police said Young assaulted Cruz, then fled, after becoming upset when he found
one of his daughters doing homework at 6 a.m. last Tuesday. Cruz did not report
the incident at the time, police said.
Cruz said she did not see Young again until Saturday night. While Cruz dropped
her two daughters off at a relative's East Providence home, Young showed up.
According to police, Cruz told Young she was ending their relationship. Later
that night, Cruz's sister and her boyfriend and their son arrived at the
family's second-floor apartment.
At about that time, Young went to the home of his cousin, William Perry, asking
for a gun, police said, but Perry refused. ''Young then left, but a short time
later returned and assaulted Perry with a hammer, all the while continuing to
demand Perry give him a gun,'' Cianci said.
Police said Young attempted to strangle Perry with an electrical cord, but let
him go when he found the gun. Young loaded the gun, threatened Perry with it,
and then fled, police said.
Young then traveled to East Providence, awoke his daughters, and brought them
to the family's apartment. When Young arrived, only his son and 10-year-old
cousin were home. The adults had gone to the store for sodas.
''Upon entering the house, the three adults were confronted by Young, who
brandished a .357 revolver,'' Cianci said. After Cruz knocked the gun away and
fled, Young forced Lauriano to tie up his girlfriend before Young tied up
Lauriano.
Cianci said Jasmin then came out of her room but was brought back there by
Young. Soon after, Lauriano and Vallejo heard a gunshot but freed themselves
and fled. When police, alerted by a call from Cruz, got into the apartment,
they found the four bodies.
''The very nature of this violent act makes it incomprehensible,'' said Cianci.
''It fills my heart and all of our hearts with immense sadness.''
Young, who along with his family was liked by neighbors, held a full-time job
as a teacher's assistant at Sackett Street elementary school in Providence.
''He was a very good employee and received excellent evaluations,'' said Dr.
Robert DeRobbio, acting superintendent.
Counselors will be on hand today at Roger Williams Middle School, where Jasmin
was a seventh-grader, and at Carl Lauro Elementary School, where Jessica was a
fourth-grader and Maurice Jr. was in first grade.
Young's neighbors said they were shocked by the killings. ''The father seemed
like a nice guy. I don't understand what went wrong,'' said Chris Madison, 28,
an upstairs neighbor.
Globe Staff reporter Andy Dabilis contributed to this story.
This story ran on page B01 of the Boston Globe on 03/22/99.
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The following two news articles both appear courtesy of the 3/22/99 online
edition of The Providence Journal newspaper:
March 22, 1999
Family dispute, gang clash leave 5 dead in Providence; 9-year-old begs father
to spare her life
By KAREN LEE ZINER
and GREGORY SMITH
Journal Staff Writers
PROVIDENCE -- In one bloody night, the city's 1999 murder rate nearly doubled <
Police say Maurice Young Sr. shot and killed his three children late Saturday
before turning the gun on himself. Sunday, after a father shot and killed his
three children and then himself at a Hammond Street apartment, and, separately,
a violent midnight gang brawl on Althea Street left one young man dead after
his skull was crushed with a concrete block.
Another young man wounded in that street fight between two Southeast Asian
gangs remained in critical condition at Rhode Island Hospital last night.
The episode at 35 Hammond St. was a domestic dispute that briefly became a
hostage-taking. It turned deadly when Maurice Young, 42, a teacher's assistant
at a city school, shot his three young children one by one with a 357-Magnum
Ruger revolver. Jessica, 9, was heard to beg for her life, screaming, ``No,
Daddy! No, Daddy!''
The bodies of Jessica, Jasmin Young, 12, and Maurice Young Jr., 6, were found
in different bedrooms of the second-floor apartment, police said. Young's body
was also found in a bedroom.
Waleska Cruz, 31, mother of the three children, was taken to Rhode Island
Hospital, where she was sedated for psychological trauma.
Less than a mile away, on Althea Street, a brawl between members of two rival
gangs, ``Providence Street Boyz'' and the ``Oriental Rascals,'' spawned an
outdoor bloodbath that witnesses said at its height involved 40 to 50 people
fighting with bottles and bricks, fists and feet.
Savann Moeung, 19, who relatives said had been trying ``to turn his life
around,'' was killed when his head was crushed with a concrete block, according
to police. His brother, Souroeun Moeung, was murdered in 1996, in what police
then believed was a gang-related incident.
Chris Colletta, 19, remained in critical condition at Rhode Island Hospital
last night with injuries from the fight.
IN A NEWS conference, Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. called it ``a sad day for the
city.'' Before yesterday, there were five murders this year. Today, nine.
In what he called ``one of our city's most terrible tragedies,'' Cianci rued
the puzzling instance of a father killing his three children, and noted that
just last week, Waleska Cruz had failed to tell authorities that her husband
had struck her. If it had been reported, the police would have acted and a
disaster might have been averted, he said.
``The very nature of this violent act makes it incomprehensible. It fills my
heart, and all of our hearts, with immense sadness,'' said the mayor.
``Three innocent children, with years and years of life, laughter, the
fulfillment of their promise ahead of them, are now, instead, with God,''
Cianci added. He asked that the city come together ``as a community, to
remember them, and to pray for them.''
As he wondered aloud, ``How can a father kill his own kids?'' Cianci called the
slayings another argument for legislation he is pressing that would force
tighter controls on gun manufacturers.
Last night, more than 100 people gathered on Dexter Field, in the city's Armory
District, to condemn the violence and vow to better support one another as
neighbors. The mostly white crowd, a sign of the Armory District's growing
transformation from immigrant stronghold to enclave of artists and
professionals, clutched shoulders, prayed, and held aloft candles under a cool
drizzle.
``What we have to do as neighbors is to respect one another and to love and
look out for one another,'' Ann Hill, 72, who is black, told the group, adding
that the neighborhood's racial and ethnic diversity is a strength. ``We
neighbors don't like to butt in on each other, but if we hear screaming from a
house, maybe we should get involved.''
Cianci said counseling will be offered today at Roger Williams Middle School
and the Carl G. Lauro Memorial Elementary School, where the children were
enrolled.
ADDRESSING THE Althea Street slaying, Cianci noted that the city's
gang-prevention efforts have been ``fairly successful.''
``It's the first [gang] incident I can remember in an awful long time,'' the
mayor said of the Althea Street brawl.
Six suspects, including one juvenile, are in custody and will be charged in the
case, Cianci said. They are Sophal Chum, 19, of 203 Althea St.; Rum Chau, 20,
of 57 Hathaway St.; Robert Chan, 19, of 269 Waldo St.; Chanda Kun, 19, of 660
Cranston St., and Sambo Thaing, 19, of 127 Bellevue Ave., all to be charged
with murder and assault with intent to commit murder.
A 14-year-old male will be referred to Family Court on a charge of assault with
intent to commit murder.
Police Chief Urbano Prignano Jr. added, ``We expect to make a lot more
arrests.''
Meanwhile, macabre remnants of the incident stained Althea Street for several
blocks.
Tire tracks left a bloodied trail for more than 70 feet; more blood pooled into
puddles of up to a foot in diameter. Bloodied surgical gauze pads and latex
gloves remained stuck to the pavement, or blew into neighboring driveways on
the raw spring breeze.
BOTH INCIDENTS erupted in the West End, as did a third unrelated incident at
2:30 a.m. outside 34 Hanover St. Caesar Perez, 19, of Hanover Street, was hit
in the leg by shotgun pellets that penetrated the door of a car in which he was
riding.
At 35 Hammond St., Cianci traced the chain of events to the ``unreported
domestic dispute'' on March 16, during which Young struck Cruz.
At about 7 p.m. Saturday, Young showed up at a relative's house in East
Providence as Cruz dropped off her two daughters for a sleepover. Husband and
wife ``had a calm discussion during which it was made clear to Young that Cruz
was ending their relationship,'' the mayor said.
Cruz went home with her son and Young went to the home of a cousin, William
Perry, where he tried to borrow a gun. Perry refused, but Young swung a hammer
at him and tried to strangle him with an electrical cord, and Young managed to
find and load the gun.
Young went to East Providence, woke his daughters and took them home.
Meanwhile, shortly after 10 p.m., Cruz's sister, Vaneza Vallejo, her boyfriend,
Edwin Lauriano, and their 10-year-old son arrived from New York for a visit at
the Hammond Street apartment.
They left for a quick trip to buy soda, and when they returned, Young's black
Cadillac Fleetwood was parked behind the house. Young confronted them with the
gun, forced Lauriano to tie up Vallejo, and then he tied up Lauriano.
At one point Cruz managed to knock the gun from Young's hand, Cianci said, and
she ran out to call police.
Jasmin emerged from her bedroom, Young took her back inside, and Lauriano and
Vallejo heard a gunshot. They then managed to free themselves and scramble to
safety.
Neighbors said they heard arguing in the apartment shortly before midnight.
``I heard some loud crashing about and I heard one gunshot,'' said Dana Arpin,
an upstairs neighbor. Then, Arpin said, he heard a woman say, ``Hurry, go get
the police.''
Just before or at about the time that police arrived, Jessica's voice was
audible upstairs and on the street. ``No, Daddy! No, Daddy!'' Two more shots
followed.
Arpin said he smelled gunsmoke in his kitchen.
With Lauriano, Vallejo and Cruz outside, a neighbor said, a police car pulled
up. Lauriano yelled to the police: ``He's got a gun. He's got a gun. He's got
all the kids tied up up there.''
``Who's got a gun?'' a policeman asked loudly.
``Maurice.''
Cruz screamed, ``I can't believe I left my kids there. I shouldn't have left my
kids.''
One or more police officers shouted to the house, ``Maurice.'' No answer.
``Maurice.'' Nothing.
One officer hurled a rock through the apartment window, apparently to see if
there would be a response. When there was none, police with dogs stormed in the
front and back doors of the house.
Nearby neighbors saw the 10-year-old Vallejo boy come out in his pajamas;
police said he hid in the apartment during the killings. A man wrapped a coat
around him and hustled him away.
Blood spots led from the apartment down the white-painted stairs, across the
doorsill, down the front steps and onto the sidewalk.
Young fired only four times all told, the police said. Jasmin was shot in the
head and Young was shot in the head. The other two children were taken by
rescue to Rhode Island Hospital, where they were pronounced dead. It was not
immediately known where the bullets hit the other two children.
SIMULTANEOUSLY, chaos erupted on Althea Street.
Police officers responded to a report of ``a fight'' at about midnight -- a
fight that claimed the life of Moeung, reportedly enrolled in the program known
as ``Youth Build,'' and left Colletta, reportedly a student at Mount Pleasant
High School, fighting for his life.
At the news conference, Cianci said a police investigation determined that
``the two victims were walking on Althea Street with other young men.'' Moeung
and some of the others with him ``are known to be members of a gang known as
the `PSB' or the `Providence Street Boyz,' '' the mayor said.
As that group neared Sorrento Street, a man known to the group as ``Bonzy,''
and known to be a member of the rival ``Oriental Rascals,'' came out of a house
``and immediately attacked Moeung,'' Cianci said.
As Moeung's friends attempted to go to his aid, ``numerous members of the
Oriental Rascals rushed into the street from 203 Althea St.'' and attacked
Moeung and Colletta.
``Suspects used sticks and bottles, as well as kicking, to assault the two
victims,'' Cianci said. ``At some point during this fight, the assailants
picked up a concrete block and smashed it across the victims' heads.''
Police said the attack possibly was in retaliation for an altercation between
the Providence Street Boyz and the Oriental Rascals two weeks ago at the
Cranston Portuguese Club, at 20 Second Ave., in Cranston.
Residents who witnessed the altercation from apartment windows said that when
police arrived, the fight was largely over and two bodies lay in the street.
``I looked out the window and there were two bodies there,'' said Jahaira
Rivera. After five months on Althea Street, Rivera said, ``I want to move
already. I have three little boys. I want to move.''
A 15-year-old girl who watched from an apartment above the fray said she could
tell that the people involved were likely members of Southeast Asian gangs,
``by the way they dressed.'' By that, she meant, ``they wear one pant leg
rolled up, and they had on muscle shirts.''
Meanwhile, several relatives of Moeung consoled each other as they stood,
shivering, blocks away from the murder site.
Moeung's cousin, Tiana Phay, said she watched the fight ``from upstairs,''
without realizing her cousin was a victim.
``You heard them screaming. . . . I went outside. I was like, `Oh, my God. Oh,
my God','' she said.
``Some people were yelling, `Stop,' some people were yelling `Kill,' and some
people were yelling, `Die -----, this is OR (Oriental Rascals),' '' she said.
Although Moeung had been incarcerated for a time at the Rhode Island Training
School, and ``he was in trouble before,'' she said, ``he was going to school,
getting his life straight.''
It was the second tragedy in the Moeung family, she added. Moeung's brother,
Souroeun Moeung, was murdered in 1996 in a dispute over drugs that police also
believe was gang-related.
Chantou Lech, 20, who is Moeung's niece, said, ``I just hope he rests in peace.
I hope he meets up with his brother.''
Yesterday morning, grains of white rice lay strewn on a sidewalk in front of a
house where Moeung's relatives sat on Althea Street.
Said Phay, ``The [Cambodian] adults put that there this morning.'' It's an old
Khmer custom, she explained, ``to keep away the ghosts'' and bad spirits, after
a tragedy has taken place.
-- With reports from staff writer Ariel Sabar.
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3.22.99
A model employee whose life fell apart
By ARIEL SABAR
and GREGORY SMITH
Journal Staff Writers
PROVIDENCE -- To his coworker Betty Jackson, it is only in retrospect that the
unraveling of Maurice Young's life makes even the slightest bit of sense.
At Sackett Elementary School, in the city's Elmwood section, Young was a model
employee.
A foster child himself, Young knew what it was like to be unwanted, Jackson
remembers him saying. It was this sense of sympathy with troubled children that
drove him to apply, while just a substitute school custodian, for a job as a
teacher's assistant.
When he got the job about two and half years ago, he applied himself with
flair, recalls Jackson, who oversees teacher's assistants for the Providence
school district and who knew Young because her office is in Sackett.
She said he would often wear a crisp suit and tie to work to impress his
students. They came from some of the city's most disadvantaged neighborhoods,
and he wanted to show them that they, too, could rise above their
circumstances.
As a teacher's assistant, he would correct papers and math assignments and read
to children in small groups. But he would also pass on lessons from his own
life, saying that if they worked hard, they could one day own a car.
``He would say to me, `I'm doing this for the kids -- I want the kids to know
somebody loves them,' '' Jackson recalled in an interview last night, after a
candelight vigil attended by more than 100 people. ``He said, `I know I can
help somebody the way somebody didn't help me.' ''
The stoutly built 42-year-old, whom friends called Sam, would also speak
tenderly of his own three children and would sometimes bring them to work on
days they got out of school early.
But then Young did something out of character: he didn't show up for work. On
Wednesday, the day after police say he quarrelled with and struck the mother of
his children, he called in sick. The day after that, Jackson said, he didn't
call at all.
He was back at work on Friday, but Jackson said he looked disheveled and didn't
seem to feel like talking. She noticed that he was wearing the same clothes as
he had Tuesday.
``That's not Maurice,'' she remembered thinking. ``Because he was a meticulous
dresser.''
What he did to his children this weekend -- shooting them one by one before
turning the gun on himself -- brought streaks of tears to Jackson's cheek as
she stood and prayed and sang with the others under a chilly rain in the city's
Armory District last night.
``For something like this to tear him apart,'' she said, ``he must have had
great, great suffering.''
Yet if he was an exemplary employee at work -- one who, school officials said,
received glowing evaluations from his superiors -- a darker side emerged at
home, according to neighbors.
Police said it was unclear if Young was married to Waleska Cruz, 31, but he had
lived with her for at least a dozen years and they had three children together.
According to people who knew them, Young was raised by foster parents in East
Providence and Cruz was a native of Puerto Rico and a current or former
employee of Women & Infants Hospital.
Their son and two daughters went to public elementary schools.
The family lived in a rented apartment in a house with chipping paint at the
corner of Hammond and Division Streets.
One neighbor and former co-worker, Allen Bento, remembered him playing with his
children and taking an interest in their school activities. Last year, Bento
said, Young took part in a Halloween show at one of their schools. He rented a
vampire costume for the occasion and and built a casket with his children's
help.
``Mom, dad, three children, jobs, a car. A perfect family,'' said Rep.
Anastasia Williams, a Democrat from Providence, who lived across the street
from the family.
That image of solidity is reflected in a family photograph. Young's 6-year-old
son, Maurice Jr., is wearing a bow tie and smiling mischievously as his
daughters, Jasmin and Jessica, rest an arm on either parents' shoulder.
But other neighbors remember Young as irritable and aggressive.
``He basically came across as a very assertive gentleman,'' said an upstairs
neighbor, Dana Arpin, a part-time laborer and college student. ``I could tell
he was a very angry personality.''
Arpin and other neighbors said it was not unusual to hear arguing in the
couple's second-floor apartment.
Yet not until a few days before the slayings did anything appear fundamentally
wrong with the family. Young had committed a misdemeanor in New York in 1986,
but he had no contact with Rhode Island police or, as far as the authorities
know, any mental health agencies.
A special education teacher at Sackett had died of breast cancer last week, and
Betty Jackson remembers Young taking a purple ribbon from the principal on
Friday and promising to attend the teacher's wake last night.
The first sign of real trouble between the couple was on Tuesday night. Young
became upset that one of his daughters was doing homework at 6 a.m. He
quarreled with Cruz, hit her, and left the apartment.
No one called the police, and he stayed away from his house until the night of
the killings. His whereabouts for those four days are unknown.
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I've located two additional articles on the Rhode Island triple child-slave
massacre undertaken Saturday night by an enraged 42 year old Daddy named
Maurice Young, in Rhode Island. I figure I'll post these 2 articles as well, in
addition to my previous post, because they do contain a little new information
and detail.
We learn that a domestic dispute over HOMEWORK and the school performance of
one of the child-slaves, appears to have been the triggering point that caused
Maurice to assault his live-in lover and the Mommy of all 3 slaves, flee from
the home, brood for 4 days, return only to be told by Mommy Waleska that "this
relationship is over", and finally decided to undertake this massacre. Daddy
Maurice has NO previous criminal history or any documented mental health
problems.
The 9 year old female slave-victim was heard by neighbors to be BEGGING for
her life, saying "Daddy, please don't shoot me", just seconds before our
enraged Daddy did indeed blow her away with several .357 Magnum shots. He
targeted the HEADS of all his victims, with great success, of course. The .357
Magnum is an AWESOMELY powerful handgun caliber bullet. Not all that popular in
massacres because most .357 Magnum guns only hold 6 rounds of ammo, but when
you only have 3 or 4 targeted victims, it's a pretty good choice for achieving
fatalities.
Take care, JOE
The following two news articles both appear courtesy of the 3/22/99 online
edition of The Boston Herald newspaper:
School work sparked rage that led dad to kill 3 children
by David Weber and Ed Hayward
Monday, March 22, 1999
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A couple's fight over a child's school work spiraled into a
domestic breakup that erupted brutally this weekend when the father executed
their three children and then turned the gun on himself, police said yesterday.
Even the act of a child begging for her life could not blunt Maurice Young's
homicidal rage.
``Daddy, don't shoot me,'' witnesses told police they heard 9-year-old Jessica
Young plead before she was slain.
In addition to Young, 42, the dead were identified by police as: Jasmine Young,
12, Jessica Young, 9, and Maurice Young Jr., 6.
Young's common-law wife, Waleska Cruz, 31, and a couple visiting from New York
managed to flee the home without injury. The visitors' 10-year-old son hid and
escaped the slaughter.
Cruz remained under care at Rhode Island Hospital last night in extreme
anguish, officials said.
``These three innocent children with years and years of life, laughter, the
fulfillment of their promise ahead of them, are now, instead, with God,'' said
a somber Providence Mayor Vincent A. ``Buddy'' Cianci Jr.
The disagreement, which began last week when Young found one of his daughters
doing her homework at 6 a.m., led his wife to end their relationship just hours
before the horrific bloodbath inside the couple's West End home at 35 Hammond
St.
Young has been a teacher's assistant in the Providence public schools, earning
excellent evaluations for his work helping students.
No one saw this coming. But Saturday night, he snapped.
``He came over here twice last night, he was like a maniac. Other than that, no
comment,'' said Young's cousin, William Perry, a bandage on his head where
Young struck him with a hammer before stealing a .357-caliber revolver used in
the shootings.
On Tuesday, Young allegedly hit his wife after the two argued over their
daughter doing homework at 6 a.m. Young felt she should have completed the work
the night before, Cianci said.
Young had been living outside of the house since the incident, which Cruz did
not report to police.
On Saturday night, Cruz took the children to a sleep-over at about 7 p.m. at a
relative's East Providence home.
While she was there, Young showed up, and at that time Cruz told him that their
relationship was over. Police said the discussion was calm.
Young left, and Cruz returned to the Hammond Street home with their 6-year-old
son.
Shortly after 10 p.m. Cruz's sister, Vaneza Vallejo and her boyfriend, Edwin
Lauriano, and their 10-year-old son arrived at Hammond Street on a visit from
New York.
In the hours between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m., Young went to the home of his cousin,
Perry, in city's Washington Park section, and demanded that he lend him his
gun.
``Perry said that Young told him he had a problem with some people at a bar,''
Cianci said.
Perry refused to give him the gun and Young left.
But he returned a short time later, assaulted Perry with a hammer and attempted
to strangle him with an electrical cord. Finally, Perry gave him the gun, which
Young loaded before he fled.
Young then went back to the East Providence house and woke up his two daughters
and took them home.
When he arrived at about 11 p.m., the only people home were Maurice Young Jr.,
6, and the visiting 10-year-old. The adults had walked down to the corner store
to buy some soda, police said.
When they returned, the adults found Young brandishing the high-powered
handgun. Cruz knocked the gun out of his hand and ran out a back door.
But Young forced Lauriano to tie up his girlfriend and then Young tied up
Lauriano.
``At some point, young's oldest daughter Jasmine came out of her room,'' Cianci
said. ``Young returned with her to her room, at which time Lauriano and Vallejo
heard a gunshot. The two adults were able to free themselves and fled from the
house.''
Dana Arpin, who lives one floor above the apartment where the killings
occurred, said he was just falling asleep when he heard the commotion.'
``I heard gunshots downstairs and yelling and screaming and I heard large
objects being knocked over,'' he said.
``I heard the mom yell, `Go get the police,' and I heard a gunshot.
Arpin said he saw a frightening sight when he looked out his front window.
``The police were crouched down behind their automobiles with their guns drawn.
I locked my door and turned out the lights,'' said Arpin.
Neighbor Bill Lane was walking his dog outside 35 Hammond St. when the gunfire
erupted.
``I heard a huge crash, and a man and a woman came out the back door. They
helled, ``Call 911, he's going to shoot them.' Then I heard two shots.''
Police, alerted by Cruz just minutes earlier, arrived on scene. After securing
the scene, a tactical team entered the apartment.
They ``found a scene that no one should ever, ever encounter,'' said Cianci.
Police Chief Urbano Prignano said each child was found in a different room,
with a gunshot wound to the head.
The 10-year-old New York boy escaped uninjured by hiding somewhere in the
apartment, police said.
Cianci said Maurice Young had no contact with Providence Police, nor any
contact with mental health agencies.
``He was quite obviously highly disturbed, violent, volatile,'' Cianci said.
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Family, neighbors shocked by change in `good father'
by David Weber and Ed Hayward
Monday, March 22, 1999
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - By all accounts, the second-floor apartment at 35 Hammond
St. was a happy home.
Maurice Young and Waleska Cruz kept their three children clothed, fed and
loved. To neighbors, the youngsters were well-mannered, their parents
dedicated.
But in the span of four days, apparent domestic tranquility dissolved into the
incomprehensible: a father slaying his three children, then killing himself.
Maurice Young, 42, went from stable, loving father and dutifully employed
teacher's aide to an estranged husband in a homicidal rage, said authorities
probing Saturday night's triple-murder and suicide.
Just hours after Waleska Cruz told Young their 12-year relationship was over -
following an alleged physical assault by Young on Tuesday - Young methodically
executed his two daughters and son, then killed himself.
With the blood barely dry on the steps leading up to the second-floor West End
apartment, relatives and neighbors were still in disbelief.
A man who identified himself as a friend of Young and Cruz said he found the
senseless murder-suicide hard to believe.
``He was a good father. I just don't see it,'' said a stunned friend of the
family, who refused to identify himself.
Upstairs neighbor Chris Madison said he thought Young was a dedicated father.
``The father seemed really nice,'' Madison said. ``He used to really talk to
the kids. He'd get after them a little bit, but nothing serious.''
Waleska Cruz was called ``a nice mother, and she was very protective of her
kids,'' said neighbor Selina Saleh.
Jasmine Young, 12, was a seventh-grader at the Roger Williams Middle School.
Jessica Young, 9, was a fourth-grader at the Carl Lauro Elementary School,
where Maurice Jr., 6, was a first-grader as well.
Young worked as a teacher's assistant at the Sackett Street School, an
elementary school.
Providence schools' Superintendent Robert DeRobbio said Young was a ``very
good'' employee who had received ``excellent'' evaluations in the three years
he had worked for the department.
On Tuesday, Young argued with his wife after he found his daughter, Jasmine,
doing homework at 6 a.m. He thought she should have done the work the night
before.
Young allegedly struck or beat Cruz, police said. She did not notify police.
Young left the home to stay somewhere else. On Saturday night, Cruz told him
their relationship was over.
``There will be counseling at those schools for people to try and come to terms
with their grief, their disbelief and their sorrow,'' said Providence Mayor
Vincent A. ``Buddy'' Cianci Jr. ``We who only know these children in death
share these emotions. Think of the intensity of the emotions of those who knew,
who loved these children in life.''
S. Lee Ghost
shouldn't he, man? He made em, he can take em out! He was just living his
True Reality. Good for him! I hope that he is acquitted .. makes more
children and shoots em just like he did this set.
SL Ghost
Joe1orbit <joe1...@aol.com> wrote in message
19990322100807...@ng07.aol.com...
Joe1orbit
>Why the outrage Joe?
Hello,
I do not engage in conversations with people who are so Inferior that they
cannot comprehend my posts, and choose to mysteriously reach incredibly invalid
conclusions on my feelings.
> You seem SURPRISED that he shot his creations.
See above.
>Why
>shouldn't he, man?
No reason at all.
> He made em, he can take em out!
Your society gave him slaves, to murder. It was a societal choice. Yes, I
respect all murderers.
> He was just living his
>True Reality.
Yes. Society helped him, choosing to facilitate the massacre by not imposing
Mandatory Parental Competency tests upon him.
> Good for him!
I applaud all people who seek and claim individual, True Reality-based
vengeance through violence.
> I hope that he is acquitted .. makes more
>children and shoots em just like he did this set.
I hope he is acquitted too. If he does murder more sperm creations, as he is
entitled to do, it would be the fault of your society.
Take care, JOE
>SL Ghost
marlene...@gmail.com
Greg Carr
> Idiots
Hopefully the grieving mother somehow found some peace and joy in life.