In what was described as a love triangle dispute, prosecutors in New York stated a jealous ex-lover shot one other man within the head after staging a theft to make it look like he wasn’t focusing on the sufferer.
Based on WABC, the December 6 incident, which was captured on surveillance video, occurred at a fish restaurant in Washington Heights. The sufferer, recognized as 37-year-old Harrison Ferreiras, was consuming on the restaurant when Heiton Camacho-Bonilla made his method inside and shot him after initially staging the theft.
Prosecutors informed the court docket that Camacho-Bonilla “tried to assassinate the sufferer primarily based on jealousy, and tried to throw investigators off his scent by pretending it was a theft.”
Prosecutors stated Camacho-Bonilla developed an obsession after the mom of his baby and Ferreiras “had a short romantic fling a number of months in the past.” The suspect and the lady had already been separated for about eight months.
Camacho-Bonilla was noticed in all-black clothes and carrying a black face masks and gloves when he entered the eatery to stage the theft. The suspect, who was additionally carrying a black hat, initially ordered the feminine employee at hand over money within the register in addition to her cellular phone, WABC reported. However prosecutors stated Ferreiras was truly Camacho-Bonilla’s goal.
Camacho-Bonilla is claimed to have issued an order to the employee earlier than he “put the gun to the again of the sufferer’s head and pulled the set off.” Ferreiras was taken to a hospital the place he underwent surgical procedure. His situation was additionally listed as essential.
“This act was premeditated, deliberate, callous, and it’s by sheer luck that the sufferer is alive, albeit with important accidents and ache,” prosecutors stated.
Camacho-Bonilla faces a slew of prices together with tried homicide, assault, a number of counts of theft and prison possession of a weapon, the New York Submit reported. A decide additionally ordered the suspect to stay in custody throughout his look in court docket this week.
