Margaux Powers, a 26-year-old white female (photo left with her father Michael), was found dismembered in her Chelsea apartment bathtub Saturday night, just hours before her boyfriend -- Jonathan Smith, 34 -- apparently jumped to his death from a building in lower Manhattan, according to a story in the Daily News.
Powers' sister and family members became concerned they could not reach Margaux for several days and eventually went to her apartment at 235 W. 22nd St. where they made the discovery and also, according to the News, found an unsigned apologetic suicide note. Powers' body was discovered by her horrified sister Dana when she pulled back the shower curtain. A building doorman told the News that Powers and her boyfriend fought all the time.
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Carlos Rios, a 47-year-old Latino male, was shot to death by an off-duty police police officer in the Bronx late Saturday night after Rios apparently accosted the officer's wife and 3-year-old daughter in an apartment elevator, according to an Associated Press story.
Reportedly, Rios showed the woman and girl a gun as he got into the elevator. She screamed and her husband, the off-duty cop, came to their aid. The attacker was shot but still managed to run from the building but was caught a short distance away. He died soon after.
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Liu Mei Liang, an 85-year-old Asian female, was reportedly killed in an attack last week by a former correction officer who body-slammed the grandmother to the ground while she was doing Tai Chi exercises in Chinatown, according to a story in the NY Post.
Gary Brown, 27, apparently was drunk when he said he accidentally bumped into Liang in the playground of PS 134 on East Broadway and knocked her down, according to the story. Witnesses came forward to say they saw Brown pick her up and slam the woman to the ground, cops said. Liang died two days later at Bellevue Hospital and Brown was charged with her murder, according to the Post story.
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The May Report on the number of homicides this past month will be posted later in the day.
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