Promising New York boxer gunned down in Bronx
source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2008/08/16/2008-08-16_boxer_ronney_vargas_former_go...
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A promising professional boxer and three-time Daily News Golden Gloves champion was shot to death early Saturday after getting into a fight at a Bronx bodega, police said.
Ronney (Venezuela) Vargas, 20, a junior middleweight who turned professional last year, was pistol-whipped and then shot in the chest in his car in East Tremont. Vargas' death comes just as the Bronx native's undefeated professional career was taking off, making him one of the city's hottest boxing prospects. "He had a future," said his distraught father, German Vargas, 52. "They didn't just kill a boxer, they killed a champ."
Police said Vargas and five friends got into a beef with two couples at the 2001 Delicatessen on Clinton Ave. about 3:30 a.m. A police source said the men became enraged after they noticed Vargas chatting with their girlfriends. "It was a dispute over some females," the police source said. "He talked to the wrong girls, and the boyfriend didn't like it. It was senseless. Stupid."
The dispute so enraged the men that when Vargas and his buddies drove off in a Honda Accord, they followed close behind in a white car. Several blocks away, on Hughes Ave., the suspects pulled up and blocked Vargas' car. Then a man came to Vargas' driver-side window and pistol-whipped him before shooting him in the chest. Cops said Vargas tried to drive off backward, sideswiping several cars before he got out of the vehicle and collapsed in the street.
Ronney (Venezuela) Vargas, 20, a junior middleweight who turned professional last year, was pistol-whipped and then shot in the chest in his car in East Tremont. Vargas' death comes just as the Bronx native's undefeated professional career was taking off, making him one of the city's hottest boxing prospects. "He had a future," said his distraught father, German Vargas, 52. "They didn't just kill a boxer, they killed a champ."
Police said Vargas and five friends got into a beef with two couples at the 2001 Delicatessen on Clinton Ave. about 3:30 a.m. A police source said the men became enraged after they noticed Vargas chatting with their girlfriends. "It was a dispute over some females," the police source said. "He talked to the wrong girls, and the boyfriend didn't like it. It was senseless. Stupid."
The dispute so enraged the men that when Vargas and his buddies drove off in a Honda Accord, they followed close behind in a white car. Several blocks away, on Hughes Ave., the suspects pulled up and blocked Vargas' car. Then a man came to Vargas' driver-side window and pistol-whipped him before shooting him in the chest. Cops said Vargas tried to drive off backward, sideswiping several cars before he got out of the vehicle and collapsed in the street.
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seanalyn
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That picture of his father is just heart wrenching, its so sad to hear about another senseless death like this. I hope they catch the heartless idiots that did this.
- 3 years ago
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seanalyn
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Pericles_Lewnes
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Life is just too cheap. This is sad. I cry with his father.
- 3 years ago
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Pericles_Lewnes
