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My Son Tommy had just turned 33 he was a carpenter with hands of gold and a heart to match, his heart was as big as a football field, but sadly he met up with the wrong woman,Bonnie.. Tommy was in love with Bonnie for near 4 years, she was bad for Tom, she caused many problems,
fights and used Tom..Tommy couldn't see how destructful she was, [Loving eyes can never see]..Bonnie started cheating behind Tommy's back with his childhood best friend Frankie...Soon there was a vicious triangle,Bonnie played them both [Tommy and Frankie] like a cat and
mouse...turning life long friends into bitter enemy's...
On the days before February 4th 1995, it had been bitter cold out, snow, ice and no work for Tommy that entire week..He was broke, On the nite of
February 4th 1995 There was a ice storm outside and windchill factor 10 below..The mayor gave an alert for all to stay indoors because of the
ice outside......The phone started ringing off the hook in our house at 11:00 pm, it was Bonnie calling, Tom had owed bonnie Previously$10.00.. Tom Dident have the $10.00..Bonnie wanted it NOW !!!!....She kept calling back, at least 4 times in 25 minutes.... I could hear her voice screaming and yelling at Tommy, and Frankies deep voice in the background instigating over Tommy's speaker phone...Tom was besides himself...He asked me Mom can you loan me $10.00 to give to Bonnie, I said Tom I just did all my shopping today, My purse is empty now and itslate... Tomorrow!!!...Tom said No she wants it now, Bonnie wont wait...
Tommy showered, got dressed, put on hiscologne... He told me he was just going 2 blocks away to Kings Highway to sell his English Racing [bike] to some store workers, who had a 24 hour everything store... Tom said to me, he could easily get $10.00 for his racing bike...Meanwhile
Bonnie called again screaming, Tommy now was really upset, his face was white, At 11:40 pm Tommy left with his bike in a light cloth jacket,
and pants, with his new work boots on....he dident even have a winter coat on, he actually expected to be back here in 5 minutes with the
$10.00..or to drop the $10.00 off at Bonnie's apartment 4 blocks away......
As Tom was leaving, I begged him, Please Tommy Dont go Tom, I have this very terrible feeling, that something very bad is going to happen tonite
to you....[A mothers forwarning], even Tommy's younger brother Timmy, also begged Tommy not to go out, said,..Tom dont go, I'm tellinG YOU
those two will get you killed, Dont meet them Tommy, there up to something...
We both warned Tommy] ...still my Tommy left, he had to look good in Bonnies Eyes....Tommy's last words to me were, {OHhhhh Mommy Dont worry, I'll be back in five minutes}...I pleaded again as my beloved Tommy went down the stairs....{I'll be right back Mommy}... My heart pounded out of my chest and raced like my chest was going to explode ...I tried to calm myself down after Tommy left and dident come right back, i tried to go to sleep, I couldent, My arms were jurking upwards off my body as I tried to come down, I was so frightened and upset when he didn't come back, hour after hour went on, I felt like my world was ending for me and I was helpless to do anything.....minutes turned into hours, Tommy never returned..[ I knew, we knew] Something very BAD happened to Tommy... Tommy NEVER ever returned home again, our worst nightmare came true.........
So much time has gone by...11 years, Tommy's case is still a cold case after 11 years, I cry all the time about it.....
Tommy's body was found in a van, February 5th 1995 in the early morning hours parked, lights on, between two big mounds of snow.....already
shoveled out for a car/truck, parked in between these snow mounds...perfectly parked...50 feet away from a police station in Crown Heights.
Tommy was stuffed in, on the passenger side, on floor, in the fetal postion..he had been stabbed multible times, all over the torso, back,
legs, defensive hand wounds..,,,then the last Stab to the HEART....That finished Tom off...He was taken in the van by the murderer from the
crime scene [so there would be no witnesses] and driven a few miles away and dumped....
The Detectives told me there wasent enough blood inside the van for him to have been killed in it, or for him to have died in it.... there had
to be a place he was killed....a crimescene..and from the number of stab wounds front, back, more than one person .....was there first theory.
Without the crime scene there would be no witnesses... At first the detectives were stumped..they said to me,...{if only we knew where Tommy was murdered}.we'd have witnesses.....and could solve the crime.......
All my relatives flew in from around the country for the wake, but on the 4th day after Tommy's death, I awoke, startled, I heard my Son
Tommy's voice loud and clear....[was I dreaming] Is Tommy alive, was this all a Horrible Nightmare...????, I sat up...NO I was wide awake, My senses came to me, But I still heard Tommy's voice, relatives sleeping all around me, on make shift beds, My apartment was filled up with
relatives for the wake and funeral, yet no one but me heard Tommy's voice and message.....
Tommy said, Mommy, Mommy get up....The sun's out, It's warming up, Mom Get up, "Go to Washington Avenue and St John's Place, Look for my blood
in the snow, and ice, the ice will melt soon, like a dog's urine in the snow, you will see my blood, and know where I was murdered....[[ go
now]]....
This was a gift from my son....the actual place of his murder, the location!!!!! Tom told me exactly where to go, what to look for, what to
find...I had relatives that came in for the wake and funeral drive me to the location that my son Tommy told me to go to, and what to look
for.......[there it was locked in the ice and snow]....[the blood]..all over the street from a hallway apartment building, down the stairsteps,
and into and across the street, leading to a pay phone, the drops were so large, [half dollar] size drops of blood ..It wasent hard to follow
and froze in the ice from the nite of the murder....I knew it ws my Son's blood.....[it made me sick] it ended by the pay phone there was a mountain of snow fulled with reddish blood locked in and frozen by the cold spell we had...But, the sun was now out shinning and the snow was starting to melt all over.........
We all were horrified, we knew this was the place, we immediately called the precient...The detectives came down, roped the area off...then
questioned everyone on the block and immediate area.
Yes, It did happen there the Detectives stated ....,this is where the murder accured the confrontation the crime scene.... they got 3 written statements from eye witnesses all saying there was a confrontation over a BIKE and this Roy "Lite" aka "Brite" a street name, Just killed the white boy...[My precious son Tommy]
The witnesses although gave written statements of the confrontation and the murder to the detectives ...the witnesses would not follow through to go to the district attorney to file them..scared off most likely.....So this murderer could be brought to justice..the witnesses
stated to detectives "I want No problems, I just want to go on with my life, and he Aint My Brother...[meaning Tommy}..The Detectives said they couldn't do anything then, and that the witnesses were not reliable people or credible..
yet in the witnesses statements, I seen very credible information,Bonnie and Frankie named, the bike...details only someone who actually
saw and knew who was there at the time of the murder....could make this statement..
For example, one witness mentioned that Bonnie and Frankie were there,watching the confrontation and the murder take place...and all of the
witnesses stated that my son Tommy had a BIKE...And that it was takenfrom Tommy from the murderer This Roy Lite, Brite, as he then washed off Tommy's blood after killing Tom
The Detectives said to me, [[[ how does a "BIKE" fit into this ? ]]] the Witnesses keep talking about a "Bike" when we question them...I said
because most likely my son couldent sell his bike in his neighborhood at the 24 hour store, and the 3 of them went to Crown heights to sell the
bike to give Bonnie her $10.00...
Bonnie said she knew someone that would buy the BIKE in Crown Heights in her statement to detectives...[Bonnie and Frankie took Tommy down there] to this Bad drug infested neighborhood full of crime..Through investigating, we also found out Bonnie and Frankie knew this Roy Lite,
aka "Brite" well, he is a drug pusher/user and Bonnie and frankie were seen there a few times a week, Roy is a street person and a bad person
with a long criminal record.........
In my heart, and knowing Bonnie, She knew what she was doing, Tommy was in the way of her and Frankie now....
I said to Detectives, If these arent reliable, credible witnesses how did they know of a Bike, a fight there, Bonnie and Frankie being there,
watching...IT all adds up ......there credible..everything is accurate...
One Witness a Tony L....spoke with a half broken english accent and it is written that way in his written statement...Quote: After Roy stab's
the White Boy, Roy and the Boy [Tommy] goes off in the Van driving..and the bike was in the hallway apartment with Roy and Darnell...[again the Bike is mentioned]....Quote: from Tony L...witness.....{where Roy got a Bucket of water from a neighbor and washed off the white [boys] blood}. why should i help the white [boy] he ain't my Brother!!! that was his statement...
Tony L. would not go down to the D.A. with his written statement to the Detectives...Most likely frightened and warned not to......so there was
nothing the detectives could do further on the case...
When witnesses fingered Roy as the murderer.... Roy was questioned, and also Bonnie and Frankie....... they Bonnie and Frankie Alibi'd with Roy and said they were together with Roy, hanging out waiting for Tom as Tom went off with a bunch of strangers he met on the street to sell his bike and he never came back ....they stated, the 3 of them waited for over a hour outside, hanging out in 10 degree below windchill factor outside, in a ice storm.....???????...Now that story dont make sence or even add up........But the Witnesses proved different with there story of the murder..all pieces fit.....that make more sence.....
From the witnesses statements I knew the eyewitness were credible...they had details and information no one could know...Why were
they not subpoened...where is Justice in that...
Tommy was brought into a bad neighborhood, that Bonnie and Frankie knew well, The detectives who worked on the case out of the precient, then
told me they were afraid themselfs there...They'd kill there own mother's...
I put up 70 crime stoppers Reward posters for Tommy...They were ripped down the next day..So I went back to put more up...the whole block
seemed to come out...They circled me, watched me, some reading the posters and some of the people cursing me, One person came up to me and
looked me in the eye, he warned me "You Better Get Out of here White Woman, or you might be next! "..The white boy ain't the first one He
{Roy} killed !....
Believe it or not, i wasent even afraid then to go into that neighborhood, NOW, I would be terrified...I was then too full of shock,
I was running on pure adrenalin to get justice for Tommy..today i cringe in terror...
The D.A. showed me the pictures of the van, my son dead in the van,
I visionalize the terror and horror Tommy must have been in that nite on February 5th...trying to flee and fight off the knife cutting through
him...getting weaker, losing blood, slipping on the ice with his work boots...till the final knife blow to his heart ended it all....while
Bonnie and Frankie watched....[ so say witnesses]....
Bonnie and Frankie 3 days after Tommy's murder enlisted a lawyer together...Why if they are innocent did they need a lawyer?...
That nite from photos I seen......Tommy was like a cornered, injured rat, running around a bloody up van, full of his own blood, smeared,
streaked all on the outside of it...It looked to me like a horror scenefrom a horror movie...I almost fainted seeing the photos.. {IT was
Nothing for a Mother to see}...It is forever etched in my mind, and makes me more determined to find Justice for Tommy...
My fight the last 11 years has been with law enforcement [there overworked they say] and have to many cases...Tommy's case file sits on
a dusty shelf in the back room of the precient gathering dust... and justice is not being served for Tommy.....
I need a VERY special dedicated person who is dedicated to solving Cold Cases..a P. I. or a retired Detective to get into Tommy's cold case
and close it....and give me PEACE....and Tommy Justice that he diden't die in vain,.... that Someone out there cares enough to help us.....
Tommy came to me from beyond to give me his message, my gift, Tom gave me all the information, the location, the crime scene, to solve his case, Enough time and effort was not put into solving my son's murder by the police...
Anyone out there who thinks they can help me please contact me.....As I will keep trying to the end of my days to get Tommy Justice, solve his
Murder, and keep this vicious murderer from killing again, [if he hasent already] and getting him off the streets...
Anyone who is reading this who is that special dedicated person, who works or does cold cases,. [also it must be pro-bono] please contact
me..... I do not have the means to hire a P.I. Im 69 and live on a fixed income, [that makes it even harder for me to do anything] that i could
do ..I have gotten very ill over the last few years fighting all alone
on Tommy's case...
A Very, Very sad, heartbroken mother...
Please contact Beverly in Brooklyn New York....
email address: BEBE777@webtv.net
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