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Four days before Valentine's Day, a crazed Queens man yesterday waltzed into a pharmacy, handed a bouquet of carnations and sunflowers to his estranged wife, who was working the register, and fatally shot her in the face, cops said.
Ex-con Alexander Figueroa, 38, shot himself dead shortly after blasting Guimmia Villa, 32, the mother of his two sons, inside Crescent Chemists in Astoria.
He fled to his apartment in the nearby Ravenswood Houses and blew his brains out.
Figueroa left behind a several-page-long confession, said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.
"He beat her up just a week and a half ago at her job and told her he would kill her if she didnt go back with him," said Villas' sobbing pregnant sister, Yajaira, 28. "He was angry she had rejected him."
Last Friday, Figueroa again threatened Villa, demanding to see their kids, Alexander, 9, and Nelson, 6.
"A.J. [Alexander] won't listen to me when I tell him not to call his father and tell him stuff about me," a worried Villa texted her sister. "He says he wants to see the kids in the morning and if he doesn't, something's going to happen."
Figueroa never showed, but on Monday, Villa went to court to renew an order of protection, her sister said.
"My poor daughter! My poor daughter," Reyna Villa, 54, wailed after returning from Mount Sinai Hospital Queens, where the young woman died.
Villa had emigrated from the Dominican Republic at the age of 6 and had undergone two kidney transplants in the last 10 years, said her uncle, Louis Villa.
"She survived twice, and look at now. She died stupidly. No reason for it," he said.
Yesterday's tragedy unfolded at 3:40 p.m., when Figueroa entered the pharmacy on 34th Avenue with flowers in hand.
"She was at the counter working, and he pulled out a gun and shot her," said her uncle.
Figueroa, an unemployed tow-truck driver, was recorded on the pharmacy's video surveillance system shooting Villa, Brown said.
Villa had lived with her mother in the same housing project as Figueroa up until six months ago, when she moved to Flushing.
The couple was together for about eight years before breaking up two years ago.
They were in the midst of a divorce and had a volatile relationship, including a history of run-ins involving police, sources said.
One neighbor recalled a raging Figueroa kicking the door of Villas' mother's apartment, demanding to see his children.
Figueroa's pal Donte Wiggins said, "he was always complaining that she had orders of protection that kept him from his kids."
In December 2009, the two fought over text messages and Figueroa pushed Villa and snatched her purse. He returned it two days later and was arrested.
Villa had also caught Figueroa cheating, sources said.
She had an order of protection against Figueroa in Queens, which expired last month, and another in Nassau County, which was due to expire in April.
"She showed us his picture and said, 'If you see him, call the cops,'" one neighbor recalled. "He was a bad man, and it was a shame he was able to hunt her down."
In 1994, Figueroa was busted for murder and sentenced to four to eight years, the sources said.
His rap sheet also included numerous prior arrests for robbery and drugs, weapons and attempted-robbery.
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Damn, that er stole my idea
Nothing says true love like a gun in the face.
People getting passionate for Valentine's Day; this one happened this morning, about a mile from my house:
Double shooting in Stone Oak
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...ak-1008937.php
sucks for the kids
What the is wrong with people??????
End of the world, tbh.
Eh, I don't know about that. I understand we live in weird times, but damn........................go overthrow a government or something.
2012 is going to be here fast..Eh, I don't know about that. I understand we live in weird times, but damn........................go overthrow a government or something.
Tbh, we don't live in weird times. like this has happened forever.. it's just known every time it happens these days. Stories like this sell, unfortunately.Eh, I don't know about that. I understand we live in weird times, but damn........................go overthrow a government or something.
I think it happens a lot more often now, tbh. Maybe it's just because of the 24/7 news cycle now, but it seems like every day something horrible like this is happening.
This girl was one of the guys I work with's friends. He said she was a good person and a pic he posted on his Facebook showed she was very pretty. RIP. He kinda took it hard.
Thanks for telling me what I need to know, buddy
Real men use their fists.
Also I don't see mentioned what she did.
That's ed up. Why waste the money on the flowers. Just shoot her in the face and you've only dropped any money on the ammunition. If you're gonna murder someone, no unnecessary expenses.
That's what I always say.
He did use his fist. Well sort of. There was just a gun in the middle of it.
Good grief, talk about a series of unfortunate events.....that shooting here in SA happened during the morning rush hour. That subdivision lies on the main traffic route to Reagan High School and 2 hospitals.
Apparently, the ambulance transporting the shooter to the hospital got into a major accident on Stone Oak Parkway. Haven't gotten any recent updated details, but my kid (a junior at Reagan) said they were told by the school staff that the ambulance ran into the car of a Reagan student causing the car to flip several times.
The kid driving that car, is also hospitalized in serious condition and happens to live on our street about half a block from us. My son doesn't socialize with him, but they talk and have a couple of classes together
That's ed up. Why waste the money on the flowers. Just shoot her in the face and you've only dropped any money on the ammunition. If you're gonna murder someone, no unnecessary expenses.
That's what I always say.
Harsh!
Son of a ...
Pathetic.
the guys our women settle for...
Yeah..killing your ex-wife and yourself when you have 2 little kids is a smart idea
Jesus ing Christ. In the end it's the kids that are paying this price. ing piece of .
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