Woman's boyfriend and ex-boyfriend die after bloody encounter in Brooklyn

[huge285]

Woman's boyfriend and ex-boyfriend die after bloody encounter in Brooklyn

Female bodybuilder Katarzyna Russo's ex-boyfriend Francisco Carvajal invaded her Brooklyn apartment Monday night, bringing with him knives and trying to get into a locked bathroom to reach Russo and her two children. Her boyfriend, Rafael Laureano, tried to help, but died shortly after being stabbed and hit by one bullet from cops. Cops gunned down Carvajal when he ignored commands to drop his weapon.

By Rocco Parascandola, Erik Badia, and Larry Mcshane
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
September 30, 2014


Theodore Parisienne/Theodore Parisienne
The ex-boyfriend of Katarzyna Russo (l.) tried to break into her home and was carrying knives.

Katarzyna Russo, sitting outside her blood-soaked Brooklyn apartment Tuesday morning, knew she and her children were lucky to survive a love-triangle slaughter that had a Stephen King twist.

The bodybuilder and her two children had cowered behind a locked bathroom door Monday night after her knife-wielding ex-boyfriend invaded their home on Ocean Parkway in Midwood like Jack Nicholson’s deranged caretaker in “The Shining.”

Police then gunned down hulking attacker Francisco Carvajal after he plunged a knife into Russo’s current beau — who was mortally injured while rushing to the terrified woman’s aid.

“We are doing all right, all things considered,” Russo told the Daily News on Tuesday after her family miraculously escaped intact from the nightmarish attack and the police bullets that brought it to a tragic end.

“The kids are not physically harmed,” she continued outside the seventh-floor apartment, where dried blood was spattered across the floor and hallway.

“They saw everything.” A knife was recovered from the scene. A source said the killer was



If the start of the horror show seemed like a King novel, the end was more of a Quentin Tarantino flick.

Cops blasted Carvajal, 47, after he stabbed Russo’s new man, Rafael Laureano, 51, who had rushed past five cops to protect his new flame, police sources said. Three cops opened fire when Carvajal ignored commands to drop the knife, police said.

During the chaotic scene, Laureano, whom Russo had met at a local gym, was also apparently hit on his right side by an errant police bullet, cop sources said. An autopsy will determine if he was killed by the knife or the apparent gunshot wound.

If it turns out he died by police gunfire, law enforcement sources said, the department will take a close look at the officer’s tactics. But, they cautioned, it is believed the officers had little recourse given the suspect’s actions.

Neighbors and police sources described the horrific attack that preceded the arrival of cops in which a desperate Russo begged Carvajal — who had a knife in each hand — for the lives of autistic son Anthony, 9, and daughter Lilly, 7.

“He was stabbing through the bathroom door, like in ‘The Shining,’” a police source said.

“It looks like he dropped one of the knives and she attacked him with it, like a defensive swing.”

Carvajal also threatened to kill a neighbor who had intervened after hearing Russo’s anguished howls.

“She was screaming, ‘Frank, stop! Frank, please don’t hurt them! Stop! Stop!’” said the neighbor.

Cops led Russo’s two children out of the crime scene on Monday night, with a detective holding Russo’s daughter in his arms and her son wrapped in a blanket.


Chris Zimmerman/Rafael Laureano was killed trying to save Katarzyna Russo and her two children.

[Curt James]

"Rafael Laureano, 51, who had rushed past five cops to protect his new flame, police sources said."

RIP.

Stabbed and shot. :-(

[Ibarramedia]

Chris Zimmerman/Rafel Laureano???

[Curt James]

Chris Zimmerman/Rafel Laureano???

Photo by.

[Granite-Dawg]

Sad Very Sad..

[Maniacal]

The worst part about this story is that he the fucking gall to go on stage looking like that.

[supbro!]

The worst part about this story is that he the fucking gall to go on stage looking like that.

Real dickhead reply brother.

[Maniacal]

Real dickhead reply brother.

Don't worry, I'm sure he doesn't mind.

[Maniacal]

Ahh, now I see why Supbro replied as he did - I mistakenly thought the photo was of the killer, not the victim.

[Granite-Dawg]

There aren't enough men out there that would lay it on the line like this man did. Tragic, but he deserves a hero's burial.

Defending his lady, and kids not of his own blood.