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http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/26829.htm
QNS. SLAY BUST
By ALEX GINSBERG
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July 6, 2004 --
Cops have busted a 26-year-old Queens man and charged him with the fatal shooting of a strip-club manager during a street altercation four months ago, The Post has learned.
Joseph Harper of Far Rockaway was arraigned June 5 in Queens Supreme Court, charged with second-degree murder, weapons possession and reckless endangerment, a spokeswoman for Queens District Attorney R
chard A. Brown said.
According to court papers, Harper got into an early-morning rumble on March 1 with a group of Hispanic men in front of CityScapes,
a strip club on Queens Plaza South.
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r>He fled, returned with a handgun and fired several shots, missing his intended target
s but striking Eileen Acevedo, 34, in the chest, the papers allege.
Acevedo, a part-time floor manager for the nearby topless club Scandals,
had left work at 3:30 a.m. and was waiting on the south side of Queens Plaza
for a cab when she was hit.
Harper, who lives in Far Rockaway, was remanded without bail following arraignment, the DA's office said.
But Harper's attorney, John Scarpa, said the defendant --who is white --
had been harassed by the group of Hispanic men on the morning of the incident.
"Basically what happened here is that my client was the victim of a vicious assault and robbery," said Scarpa.
He said Harper had been staying with his fiancÃÆ’ Ô�Å¡©
e in Los Angeles when cops made the arrest.
News of the arrest gave some comfort to Monesa Arvanitis, a colleague and friend with whom Acevedo lived for a year. "I had the fee
ling
that she was just going to be killed for nothing and nobody would have to pay," said Arvanitis, 54.
Acevedo was respon
sible for booking dancers and making up bartenders' schedules at Scandals, but was also working full-time at a medical office.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/26829.htm
QNS. SLAY BUST
By ALEX GINSBERG
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
July 6, 2004 --
Cops have busted a 26-year-old Queens man and charged him with the fatal shooting of a strip-club manager during a street altercation four months ago, The Post has learned.
Joseph Harper of Far Rockaway was arraigned June 5 in Queens Supreme Court, charged with second-degree murder, weapons possession and reckless endangerment, a spokeswoman for Queens District Attorney R
chard A. Brown said.
According to court papers, Harper got into an early-morning rumble on March 1 with a group of Hispanic men in front of CityScapes,
a strip club on Queens Plaza South.
<b
r>He fled, returned with a handgun and fired several shots, missing his intended target
s but striking Eileen Acevedo, 34, in the chest, the papers allege.
Acevedo, a part-time floor manager for the nearby topless club Scandals,
had left work at 3:30 a.m. and was waiting on the south side of Queens Plaza
for a cab when she was hit.
Harper, who lives in Far Rockaway, was remanded without bail following arraignment, the DA's office said.
But Harper's attorney, John Scarpa, said the defendant --who is white --
had been harassed by the group of Hispanic men on the morning of the incident.
"Basically what happened here is that my client was the victim of a vicious assault and robbery," said Scarpa.
He said Harper had been staying with his fiancÃÆ’ Ô�Å¡©
e in Los Angeles when cops made the arrest.
News of the arrest gave some comfort to Monesa Arvanitis, a colleague and friend with whom Acevedo lived for a year. "I had the fee
ling
that she was just going to be killed for nothing and nobody would have to pay," said Arvanitis, 54.
Acevedo was respon
sible for booking dancers and making up bartenders' schedules at Scandals, but was also working full-time at a medical office.