UPDATE: Man, 22, Charged With Murder After Stabbing And Setting Teen On Fire In Bronx Apartment Building
We recently shared the tragic story of Winston Ortiz, the 18-year-old boy who was stabbed several times then doused with gasoline and set aflame with a match in a Bronx apartment building on Wednesday. At the time, cops didn’t have a motive for the attack and there were no immediate arrests or any information on a suspect.
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However, according to new updates by the New York Daily News, cops have nabbed the man responsible for the brutal crime. The news site reports that Adones Betances, 22, was arrested Thursday. While being led from the 44th Precinct stationhouse in the afternoon, Betances told reporters “I was framed, thank you.” However, he was charged with murder and manslaughter for the horrific attack on Ortiz in the hallway of a Highbridge apartment building.
A police source said Betances was angry about the victim’s relationship with his 15-year-old sister. Ortiz Sr. and the victim’s younger brother also said the homicide seemed to have something to do with the victim’s recent breakup with his girlfriend, Betances’ sister. “This little girl broke up with him four days ago. He was devastated,” said Ortiz Sr., who added that he didn’t know why the pair split. “He was protective of her. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to take care of her family,” Ortiz Sr. said. “They had issues — all kinds of issues … I can’t believe they took his life, people he wanted to take care of.”
“I’m pretty sure it had to do with a breakup,” Wilmer Ortiz said. “His ex-girlfriend may have lured him into a trap, due to the fact that it was her older brother. I still cannot believe what goes through your mind, murder someone, and take a life,” The New York Daily News quotes.
Wilmer added,
“He was a great, great person. He hadn’t even finished high school. We had a plan for our lives. We were going to become greater than the generation before us.”
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